One of the researchers reportedly sent a pleading email last week claiming a member of the team had attacked them and was issuing further threats.

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          Uhhhhh im gunna need to see some id and your ‘okay’ license sir, please step out of the vehicle

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            yeah sure, I’m just commenting to boost engagement. sometimes the post is so mind numbingly evil or sad or just interesting and I don’t really want to sit and think about something interesting to say to entertain the gay people in my computer, but they might see the post if it has more interactions

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              Comments might influence the Hot algorithm (I haven’t checked) but Lemmy is small enough that people will be using different sorting like top 6 hours or new.

              This isn’t youtube and I think your efforts are mostly wasted.

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                yeah it’s not much of an “effort”, but I get your point. you’re saying I should make a few dozen bots do it…

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                    Not pointless, I only opened this post because it had 13 comments

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              Alright fair enough. I do love that you’re trying to get engagement up, but I think your method might not be the most optimal.