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RoGeorge:
Could be a propaganda bot.  I've noticed at least 3-4 new registered users this year necroposting generic opinions, often demoralizing, dividing, or other kinds of negativity.

AI and machine learning are good enough nowadays, chat bots can make generic conversation without anybody noticing.  It is very cheap to train chat bots then release lots of them all across the social media to spread whatever opinion one wishes to spread, and public opinion might eventually lean in that direction.

This is just a hunch, so it might be wrong.

ataradov:
Priming the posts for edit with a spam link for sure. I reported this as soon as it showed up in the notifications.

magic:
It's noteworthy that the thread is very old.

Either it has been picked randomly out of all threads on the forum (but why? wouldn't it be easier to use any current one?) or the spammer found it by searching for some keywords on the Internet. Maybe the goal is to post ads or propaganda somehow related to motivation / well being / whatever had been discussed here.

I seem to recall similar situation where an old teardown of vaping device had been necrobumped by a spammer advertising vaping stuff ::)

One trick sometimes used is to make an "innocent" post and fill it with spam a few days/weeks later when nobody watches anymore.

ataradov:
No, they always pick old threads. Current threads have too many eyes on them. And here he just looks like a clueless person posting something maybe related to the thread. In the past this would be ignored and was ignored many times. But just like extended car warranty calls, it gets too obvious over time.

magic:
That makes sense.

But I also recall spammers who posted in current threads and in one case there was a guy advertising some Chinese PCB fab and shitting on the others who started several threads of his own and kept asking dumb and self-contradictory questions ::)

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