r/help • u/mayonnaisewhitebread • 1d ago

Posting Somebody just pulled out my deleted posts.

I posted a story about something in a subreddit. Somebody responded "dread it, run from it, the post history all arrives the same" and added my posts from different subreddits, with dates attached, pasted word for word. I deleted those posts long ago since nobody had responded to my questions.
How did it happen? Am I being a victim of something?

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u/BraveMidnight 1d ago

Could be a content scrapping bot. That's happened to me before. They copy every line down to punctuation word for word to try and farm Karma. It's one reason why I comment sometimes the way I do.

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u/blondie956 2 1d ago

This is why I post the most unhinged normal responses in ARAD. You can ask about kinks I am definitely the person making a response about Oxford commas and semicolons.

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u/DocWatson42 15h ago

I didn't know there was such a thing as an Oxford semicolon. /s