There have been a couple of people who've ousted themselves for doing it shortly before they deleted the accounts.

So it tells me there are some very lonely losers out there, spending all of their free time, doing this.

Some guy yesterday with a one day old account said something vaguely related to the post that sounded like an AI wrote it trying to sound human.

I tried to coax the LLM into a nonsense response but instead two people responded and I received -10 votes.

Looking into both their content history, it's clearly the same person.

People are testing the abuse of no guardrails on Lemmy. It will get worse before a solution is created.

As a mod I can answer the last part of your question: If it looks like a bot, smells like a bot, acts like a bot, guess what it is?; A duck.

And ducks get banned.

Just to clarify: Only the ones trying to pass as human. Utility bots (and ducks) are OK provided they are marked as such. Creating sockpuppet accounts for later use is not. While the boards I mod don't explicitly have rules against bots, zero interaction repost bots hoping to farm some upvotes do not help the community.

Yup I'm seeing it, and then people wonder why there were so many rules on reddit banning posting until you had so much karma. Because bad actors spoil it for everyone.

I'm not sure I would call that weird. That's normal bot behavior.

I usually sort by subscribed so... IDK what is going on here

I got banned from RPGmemes for apparently boosting a bot account. So no idea.

Yep happens a lot over at the Shitpost community and then you have the ones over at politics spamming news articles. It's weird.

As a mod of !fuckcars, I've been getting reports of stuff being posted by new accounts that pretty much immediately get deleted (not banned, as far as I can tell; deleted by the owner). I feel like there's something fucky going on, but I'm not sure what should be done because the content being posted is legitimately on-topic and there's no user to take action against anymore.

It bothers me that I don't understand the motive.

I'm not on that community but in World, Europe and Politics community I've seen this issue too. Don't recognize that alias with the numbers though. But a new user posts a whole lot for 3 hours and then deletes it's own account. And then gets a new account. Repeat.

See also ex. this post on Lemmy/support.

add: solution: Tesseract and Voyager have filters for accounts< 1 month old

Yep. I generally report them as bot accounts because they delete their account after a few hours.

It's government bots. Trying to make star trek more popular than Star wars.

Random question. Did it only start happening less than two months ago, after I joined? I suspect that the IDF has followed me here.

Nope. Any examples?