RE: Flagging is not censorship

[sunlit7]

Off topic: Anyway while you are here...last night I ran across a comment someone made nine days ago here:
https://steemit.com/politics/@adamkokesh/t7pdwcyo#@sunlit7/re-adamkokesh-t7pdwcyo-20180424t082724133z

Look at funbobby51's comment then take a look at how this guy used the same comment here but it wasn't funbobby51:

https://steemit.com/politics/@sobujdas/re-adamkokesh-qo3ix2fr-20180501t033813406z#@sunlit7/re-sobujdas-re-adamkokesh-qo3ix2fr-20180501t090017474z

I've heard this has been going on with people copying other people's comments and pasting them in other blogs but I don't remember who was dealing with that issue.

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[themarkymark]

That happens a lot. There is a group of comment spammers that do one of the following.

1. Nice Post or equal useless comment
2. Flat out copy another users comment
3. Copy chunks from various comments on the thread, and turn them into a new Frankenstein comment

#3 is harder but there are bots that do this for you, the idea is it is very on topic and can pass off as a real comment. No one wants to waste their voting power to flag, and they hope to get the random upvote. Since it is all automated, it costs nothing.

It's about the same value as ContentJunkie (and his alt's) posts.

[sunlit7]

Frankenstein comment...lol, yeah I 've seen a few of those also, usually pretty decipherable.