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i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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[-] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can but only if the bot account has actually been set as a bot account in its account settings page. Naturally, malicious actors aren't going to out their own bot accounts by setting them as bot accounts if they're looking to do something like astroturf or manipulate opinions through voting.

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