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The following accounts appear to be astro-turf puppets, used for synchronized voting. Created about 2 years ago with no, or very low activity.

Original context: https://lemmy.world/comment/15594603

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The pattern of Name+Number appears to be the preference

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

interesting....

All of the above LW accounts have been self deleted, except the last one.

AND Allukathecutie7725@LW upvoted this post, and then made a new account allukathecutie7725@blahaj. Just to be crystal clear the new account was created AFTER this post was made.

I suppose that is as close to a confirmation as can be expected.

They left their non LW accounts still up (from the original post)

@TheDude@sh.itjust.works You might want to checkout two of the above accounts for being part of a astroturf ring on your instance

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those five accounts were self-deleted within 2 hours of you making this post. Somebody noticed that you caught onto them.

I briefly looked into the remaining accounts you mentioned. Their voting patterns look very similar, but I'm not convinced they are colluding. It's easy to imagine multiple users having similar opinions.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for checking it out!