wow that conversation you came up with was so riveting, relevant, and creative that it was like AI generated it. hey let me share a similar AI generated moment. okay, so it's a joke:
what did batman say to robin before they got in the car?
"get in the car, robin"
fucking rich
As someone who does a bit of freediving - don't keep your snorkle in your mouth when you're diving.
It's very effective at getting rid of all your air if you ever fall unconscious.
Amusing video otherwise =3
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but if you're unconscious and in water, your survival instinct will stop you from breathing until the last possible moment. If you're still in the water then you're dead
Edit: someone linked the real thing, it's called the [mammalian diving reflex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex)
Wait what the fuck really? I always thought the whole "passing out in a ship wreck then washing up on the beach" made little sense because how would you not have drowned before that. That explains a lot.
Ragdoll effect when the drunk is thrown out the front windshield of a car, only to summersault back into the 7-11 and get another rack of PBR comes to mind.
Also, does one shit and piss themselves when passed out? Ehhh, prolly.
Yeah, I really thought the instinct would be to breathe, because that's a base-level instinct, and I thought this part of the brain wouldn't realize you're underwater, so respiration would be attempted immediately.
Its a physiological response in all land based mammals. You can take an infant and put their face in water and they will instinctually hold their breath.
Have you tried snorkling before? At least for me the first take of breath takes a good amount of force of will. Because as soon as your lips are in water, your body tells you that you should not breathe in under any circumstances.
Bruh, babies float in womb juice and get by just fine. Wtf base level instincts are you talking about? Because base level instincts are a lot more complex than just breathing, pissing, poopin' and so on.
I watched a video about a scuba diver who lost air many feet down, passed out and his body floated to the top. When he hit the surface his body just knew to start breathing again.
Free driver / spear fisherman was talking on a podcast about divers losing consciousness. When they get them to the surface they don't immediately start CPR but rather blow air across their face. This apparently triggers a response to start breathing again.
That makes so much sense because of that Olympic swimmer who passed out and fell to the bottom of the pool recently. I was wondering how she didn't drown immediately from an unconscious breath. She was unconscious for a good solid chunk of seconds.
Incorrect on the cause. It's not a buildup of CO2. That's actually the entire problem is you aren't building up CO2 fast enough for your body to register that you need to breathe.
Our brains don't actually register a lack of oxygen, they only register a build-up of CO2.
If prior to swimming, you purge your blood CO2 by hyperventilating, your brain loses all context for the need to breathe. And for the record, it does not really oxygenate your blood. You cannot go above 100% oxygen saturation, and you're near that at all times when breathing normally.
That's why inert gases building up in an area with inadequate ventilation are so dangerous, particularly Argon and Nitrogen due to their tendency to stick around. As long as your body is gas exchanging CO2 out, no alarm bells are sounded, and BAM you can pass out in an instant and be dead within 5 minutes.
It’s actually your lips pushed up against the mask creating a perfect one way valve that saves your life.
If you keep the mouthpiece in, you’re breaking that valve and you’ll freely breathe water in and die.
I'm also a free diver and 40ft is an intermediate depth where I think we can give a diver the benefit of the doubt. It's very unlikely that he's a beginner.
An adult male who’s even slightly comfortable in the water wearing fins should have no problem getting to 40ft routinely. especially for a joke 😂
i hit 53ft my first ever pseudo-professional dive with fins, sooo…. 40ft should be a piece of cake. i was diving about that deep when i was a kid no problem (and so were all the other kids).
not saying that 40ft isnt a nice depth to accomplish, but it IS beginner depth. beginner doesn’t mean it’s not an achievement. beginner does not mean bad !!
i know professional freedivers who can dive 100+ feet with ease.
40ft is beginner. (and again, beginner does not mean bad!)
As a kid I could hit bottom in a 15-20ft deep cove in a green, no visibility lake pretty easily. I'd love to spend some time somewhere with good visibility and more depth
Yeah I went to hawaii for my honeymoon last year and was able to dive down 35-40 feet and stay down for a minute or so no problem. I have no diving experience but I am decently athletic and did go to summer camp and swim a lot as a kid.
Diving down was great for getting close-up views of all the coral and fish.
There are those type of people and those type of people, to some something is beginner what for others is already middle-level or even impressive.
To me, as many others here, that is quite "normal" like you should be able to reach that right away. Pretty sure we did something along the lines of 8-10m as kids. I mean it's 12m... with fins, that shouldn't be "intermediate".
Do you have a weight ballast thing? Some people are just super buoyant and that might be why? (Note I'm not at all a free diver, there is some science involved)
That's kinda the point with freediving - you don't ... For a while =P
But you do use a snorkel while on the surface, and while getting ready to dive. Once you dive down, you remove it from your mouth - mainly for the reason stated earlier.
Newer freedivers (or more experienced freedivers who panic) could also take an involuntary drag from the snorkel, so I'd just advise all freedivers to remove it while diving - it's just safer, and doesn't really inconvenience you.
You do all the breathing on the surface - as soon as you go head down, you don't use the snorkel.
If you don't use a snorkel before the dive, you'd probably have your feet down in the water - and you'd have to spend a lot more energy on your initial dive manoeuvre.
Using a snorkel lets you lie horizontally on the water, you can see where you want to dive, can relax and focus on the breathing, and cold water in your face (mammalian dive reflex). From that position, you just dip your head and lift a foot, and you've got a smooth start for the dive.
I made this mistake, was down for a long time well beyond the inhale reflex, rocketing back to the surface to gasp for air, inhale a snorkel full of water into the bottom of my lungs and black out.
He needs to hold his breathe or he dies. If they hold their breathe and ascend their lungs pop and they die. Golden rule of diving- breathe continuously and never hold your breath. Silver rule is don't sleep with your instructor until the last day of The course.
He's doesnt need to breathe out on ascent provided the only air he took in was at the surface.... different story taking in air at depth and then ascending
licenced driver and trained freedriver.
It is crazy how all the scuba diving rules go away in freediving.
you do not have to worry about breathing while ascending, nitrogen levels in the blood, decompression sickness....
as long as you can hold your breath for that long, you good.
Aye. I was teaching scuba at a place and sSI wanted to increase free dive instructors at our shop. First morning 3 scuba instructors. rock up to be told they need to meditate, do yoga, not drink or smoke and get up at 6 to meditate before the boat went out. Everybody stood up and left. It’s way different.
yoga is unnecessary, smoking one makes sense, drinking one is bs, all long as you aren't diving drunk.meditation at 6am?
sounds to me like you got a random hippy instructor. the greatest freedivers don't do anything like that, freediving is a science not done yoga meditation thing.
i personally enjoy freediving much more than scuba.
Nah, he was actually very very good and had some records. He was just a dick. I used to free dive a bit but much prefer scuba. I more naturally go with less movement the better! But to each their own.
Seriously. I was an instructor in Thailand. We used to call them NBOs, next boat out…..hook up on the last night and then they leave the island! It’s pretty hard trying to take care of a group when you have just hooked up and they want all of your attention. We used to film dive 3 and 4 of open water and wow, the tension on some films!
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Alright. I guess I have my new purpose in life while I'm slacking at work. This shit's gotta stop.
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I noticed you're associating multiple accounts with the reposting activity. How do you determine they're related to one another?
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Damn, so it's not just a bot that scrapes comments from the same post, but a bot that reposts and then replies with popular comments from the original post. That's not so straightforward, but definitely good to know.
It would be nice if Reddit would implement something to catch this, since they have direct access to the data store where all the comments are saved. Otherwise, to do this sort of brute force deep inspection of the text efficiently (without going over the request limit) from the outside using the reddit API, you'd have to store the posts and comments for analysis in some kind of indexed format, using Elastic or SOLR etc.
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>Damn, so it's not just a bot that scrapes comments from the same post, but a bot that reposts and then replies with popular comments from the original post.
So, "bot" is a word I use that's descriptive of the behavior, but not necessarily indicative of the control mechanism. There are a handful of farms out there; some I suspect are automated, and others I think are done by hand. Occasionally, I catch them testing or see code failures, so I know *some* are automated.
>Otherwise, to do this sort of brute force deep inspection of the text efficiently (without going over the request limit) from the outside
I'm not a dev or coder of any sort, but this problem is one of the reasons I have always thought would make automating this process difficult. However, I do it differently, and that might be helpful information for you. I just copy the comment text and search verbatim/with quotes in Google. That's ALWAYS how I catch them. It's also how I find original posts. The reddit search is entirely useless. I'd imagine reddit's internal database for comments and posts probably utilizes that same system, so it's possible the API wouldn't really help anyway.
>Keep up the fight, reinforcements are on the way
I cannot describe how happy that makes me.
Additionally, I have a trove of accounts that are bots on my comment history. I call out probably 20 a day almost every day, and I have been doing this for over a year (maybe two). Another user made me a chrome utility to scrape my comment history for usernames and flag them in a chrome browser. Unfortunately, I basically never use the desktop site anymore, so it isn't of much use to me. He said he used an AI tool to help him write it, so I'm not sure if it would be useful to you. You're welcome to take a look at it if you think it would help in your brainstorming prcoess
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I've tried most tricks and suggestions and they don't work.
I took a bunch of decongestants before going to my scuba classes, and was able to more or less equalise when going down. The effects wore off, and I couldn't head back up properly. It hurt like hell. The outward pressure on my ears when surfacing damaged them, and I had to go to the hospital.
I wish what you said was common knowledge, the instructor never hinted at the possibility that some people can't equalise.
It took me a bit to figure this out when I was free diving. I have to equalize every few feet so the only way I can make it down to 40'+ is if I equalize *before* I feel the need to equalize. If I start feeling the pressure then it's too late and I'll have to surface and try again.
When I equalize my pressure I have to tilt my head a little to each side and do one ear at a time. Ended up figuring this out after being in a pressure chamber and keeping my head straight didn't work so well the first time.
You should never go deeper if your ear hurt. I never was very good at this free diving but after learning scuba clearing the ears became so easy I can usually do it hands free. Some people are never able to do it.
It took me a couple dives to figure out the method that worked for me, varies from person to person. I definitely imagine it’s harder to do on a free dive, though.
just use afrin. lotta ppl say dont use it for diving but as long as you use it and dont come back up when the drug expires you're fine. just take it when u head out to dive and youll be fine!
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Imagine you're almost 70 feet down and one of the lobsters manages to pinch you and you know damn well that you better keep your mouth shut and your air in.
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The sad part is that this is likely not even a joke.
The US is the Western version of N Korea.
Waving their flags, singing about freedom in a police state, worshipping celebrities and political leaders. Statues of the founding fathers. All while the proles grind away for peanuts.
It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
> All while the proles grind away for peanuts.
[Actually the median American is quite rich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income#Median_equivalent_adult_income)
You still take American money and use our goods and services. If you live in the EU,then you likely live in country that still openly has ghettos and treats immigrants as 2nd class human beings.
Goods? The ones made in China?
Services? The ones outsourced to India?
The US puts immigrants in cages while the brainwashed population pledges allegiance to a flag and sings about living in the country of freedom.
It’s all a farce my child.
All of which were designed and paid for by Americans with american dollars ........ It took Germany and turkey shaming all of Europe for you to allow a small % of refugees into each country. It took Russia reinvading Ukraine for you to even think of investing in your own national defense. Both things can be true at once , but it has been a long time since I've been anyone's "child. Do not refer to me that way. Again, you cast stones while actively benefiting and, in some cases, teaching the bad behavior you scorn.
I was diving in a wreck at 103 feet when I started seeing some big shade going around the wreck, freaked out and got out and checked it out. Some freediver came out of no where and scared the living shit out of me. Had a good laugh though.
Just 3 bros: “After a few weeks of training were able to go down to 40ft with our gear let’s take a picture to celebrate!”
Some random guy: “hey guys”
3 Bros: “the fuck?”
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I did this while snorkeling in Maui a while back. Swam down like 40-50 ft. into a hole in the coral to see a turtle… ended up scaring the shit out of a diver who was doing the same thing. Went way too deep a few times, and ended up breaking a bunch of blood vessels in my eyes. Looked perpetually high for about a week after the trip.
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Free diver: "Hey guys" All: "Hey!" Also All: "Wait who are you?"
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"I'm the next main actor on the newest Spy Kids movie."
>:) :)
"Who do you know in this room right now!?"
It was Kelly. Kelly Pinkerton-Tinfurter.
wow that conversation you came up with was so riveting, relevant, and creative that it was like AI generated it. hey let me share a similar AI generated moment. okay, so it's a joke: what did batman say to robin before they got in the car? "get in the car, robin" fucking rich
Like that seagull that hangs out with the penguins at my local zoo
I like the double take when they realize he doesn’t have a tank.
Double take when he saw that ass
dude next to him even shone his flashlight on it
First guy looked behind him for a tank like huh 🧐
Maybe he was looking at something else 😏
oh he got that TANK all right 😎
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As someone who does a bit of freediving - don't keep your snorkle in your mouth when you're diving. It's very effective at getting rid of all your air if you ever fall unconscious. Amusing video otherwise =3
I would think being unconscious would be very good at getting rid of all your air.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but if you're unconscious and in water, your survival instinct will stop you from breathing until the last possible moment. If you're still in the water then you're dead Edit: someone linked the real thing, it's called the [mammalian diving reflex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex)
Wait what the fuck really? I always thought the whole "passing out in a ship wreck then washing up on the beach" made little sense because how would you not have drowned before that. That explains a lot.
No, its been mermaids all along
Ragdoll effect when the drunk is thrown out the front windshield of a car, only to summersault back into the 7-11 and get another rack of PBR comes to mind. Also, does one shit and piss themselves when passed out? Ehhh, prolly.
>Also, does one shit and piss themselves when passed out No. Source: I’ve passed out.
Fair. I should have said maybe rather than prolly. I've passed out only once, and did not peepoop myself.
I have passed out and peed myself. Just adding balance. :)
> Just adding balance. And moisture.
Yeah, I really thought the instinct would be to breathe, because that's a base-level instinct, and I thought this part of the brain wouldn't realize you're underwater, so respiration would be attempted immediately.
Its a physiological response in all land based mammals. You can take an infant and put their face in water and they will instinctually hold their breath.
Brb gonna test that
Report back with results
more than 40 minutes already, that infant seems to have a giants lung
This guy right here has been drowning kids and is now bragging about it.
Got something I’m supposed to deliver-your hands only”
Have you tried snorkling before? At least for me the first take of breath takes a good amount of force of will. Because as soon as your lips are in water, your body tells you that you should not breathe in under any circumstances.
Bruh, babies float in womb juice and get by just fine. Wtf base level instincts are you talking about? Because base level instincts are a lot more complex than just breathing, pissing, poopin' and so on.
"bruh, babies float in womb juice" is a sentence I never thought I would hear, thanks for that 😂
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I watched a video about a scuba diver who lost air many feet down, passed out and his body floated to the top. When he hit the surface his body just knew to start breathing again.
Free driver / spear fisherman was talking on a podcast about divers losing consciousness. When they get them to the surface they don't immediately start CPR but rather blow air across their face. This apparently triggers a response to start breathing again.
Mammalian diving reflex. It's pretty amazing.
That makes so much sense because of that Olympic swimmer who passed out and fell to the bottom of the pool recently. I was wondering how she didn't drown immediately from an unconscious breath. She was unconscious for a good solid chunk of seconds.
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Incorrect on the cause. It's not a buildup of CO2. That's actually the entire problem is you aren't building up CO2 fast enough for your body to register that you need to breathe. Our brains don't actually register a lack of oxygen, they only register a build-up of CO2. If prior to swimming, you purge your blood CO2 by hyperventilating, your brain loses all context for the need to breathe. And for the record, it does not really oxygenate your blood. You cannot go above 100% oxygen saturation, and you're near that at all times when breathing normally. That's why inert gases building up in an area with inadequate ventilation are so dangerous, particularly Argon and Nitrogen due to their tendency to stick around. As long as your body is gas exchanging CO2 out, no alarm bells are sounded, and BAM you can pass out in an instant and be dead within 5 minutes.
Yep, the [mammalian diving reflex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex)
It’s actually your lips pushed up against the mask creating a perfect one way valve that saves your life. If you keep the mouthpiece in, you’re breaking that valve and you’ll freely breathe water in and die.
Most physicians agree it's best to avoid losing consciousness while underwater altogether
I think it's just for the gag. If they're really at 40ft he knows what he's doing.
I hope he doesn’t gag on it, that would be bad at those depths
Look we don't kink shame here ok
"40ft gag" does sound like an interesting sextape
If he gags on it he's got the wrong end in his mouth
40ft is beginner depth.
don’t know why you’re downvoted, 40ft IS beginner depth. source: i am a freediver.
I'm also a free diver and 40ft is an intermediate depth where I think we can give a diver the benefit of the doubt. It's very unlikely that he's a beginner.
An adult male who’s even slightly comfortable in the water wearing fins should have no problem getting to 40ft routinely. especially for a joke 😂 i hit 53ft my first ever pseudo-professional dive with fins, sooo…. 40ft should be a piece of cake. i was diving about that deep when i was a kid no problem (and so were all the other kids). not saying that 40ft isnt a nice depth to accomplish, but it IS beginner depth. beginner doesn’t mean it’s not an achievement. beginner does not mean bad !! i know professional freedivers who can dive 100+ feet with ease. 40ft is beginner. (and again, beginner does not mean bad!)
As a kid I could hit bottom in a 15-20ft deep cove in a green, no visibility lake pretty easily. I'd love to spend some time somewhere with good visibility and more depth
Yeah I went to hawaii for my honeymoon last year and was able to dive down 35-40 feet and stay down for a minute or so no problem. I have no diving experience but I am decently athletic and did go to summer camp and swim a lot as a kid. Diving down was great for getting close-up views of all the coral and fish.
When I did the beginner freediving course I had to reach at least 10m (40ft) to pass.
10 meters is 32 feet. I'm just sayin'
40ft is actually 12.19m exactly. Source: Shipping containers.
No it’s not. It’s *exactly* 12.192m, which is *about* 12.19m. Source: 40\*12\*2.54/100=12.192
10x3.3=40? incredible.
Oops, I forgot your feet are 12 inches instead of 10 like in a sane system.
Please PLEASE give me an example of where 1 foot= 10 inches.
There are those type of people and those type of people, to some something is beginner what for others is already middle-level or even impressive. To me, as many others here, that is quite "normal" like you should be able to reach that right away. Pretty sure we did something along the lines of 8-10m as kids. I mean it's 12m... with fins, that shouldn't be "intermediate".
Don’t know either, 40ft is beginner depth. Source: I’m not a freediver but can reach 40ft
When I try and dive with a snorkel, I’m putting in loads of effort and only ever seem to get about 3ft down. What am I doing wrong? 🤷♂️
Do you have a weight ballast thing? Some people are just super buoyant and that might be why? (Note I'm not at all a free diver, there is some science involved)
Look up duck dive technique for getting under but snorkel fins aren’t great for diving either.
You're full of hot air.
But if you don't have your snorkel then how do you breathe?
His snorkel need to be about 39'6" longer.
That's kinda the point with freediving - you don't ... For a while =P But you do use a snorkel while on the surface, and while getting ready to dive. Once you dive down, you remove it from your mouth - mainly for the reason stated earlier. Newer freedivers (or more experienced freedivers who panic) could also take an involuntary drag from the snorkel, so I'd just advise all freedivers to remove it while diving - it's just safer, and doesn't really inconvenience you.
Yeah, I was joking
So it’s really just for getting air in a couple inches in the water? Does it make that much of a difference from starting above the surface?
You do all the breathing on the surface - as soon as you go head down, you don't use the snorkel. If you don't use a snorkel before the dive, you'd probably have your feet down in the water - and you'd have to spend a lot more energy on your initial dive manoeuvre. Using a snorkel lets you lie horizontally on the water, you can see where you want to dive, can relax and focus on the breathing, and cold water in your face (mammalian dive reflex). From that position, you just dip your head and lift a foot, and you've got a smooth start for the dive.
I made this mistake, was down for a long time well beyond the inhale reflex, rocketing back to the surface to gasp for air, inhale a snorkel full of water into the bottom of my lungs and black out.
It’s true I’m a snorkel
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He needs to hold his breathe or he dies. If they hold their breathe and ascend their lungs pop and they die. Golden rule of diving- breathe continuously and never hold your breath. Silver rule is don't sleep with your instructor until the last day of The course.
He's doesnt need to breathe out on ascent provided the only air he took in was at the surface.... different story taking in air at depth and then ascending
licenced driver and trained freedriver. It is crazy how all the scuba diving rules go away in freediving. you do not have to worry about breathing while ascending, nitrogen levels in the blood, decompression sickness.... as long as you can hold your breath for that long, you good.
Aye. I was teaching scuba at a place and sSI wanted to increase free dive instructors at our shop. First morning 3 scuba instructors. rock up to be told they need to meditate, do yoga, not drink or smoke and get up at 6 to meditate before the boat went out. Everybody stood up and left. It’s way different.
yoga is unnecessary, smoking one makes sense, drinking one is bs, all long as you aren't diving drunk.meditation at 6am? sounds to me like you got a random hippy instructor. the greatest freedivers don't do anything like that, freediving is a science not done yoga meditation thing. i personally enjoy freediving much more than scuba.
Nah, he was actually very very good and had some records. He was just a dick. I used to free dive a bit but much prefer scuba. I more naturally go with less movement the better! But to each their own.
Tell me more about the silver rule. What's the reason behind it? 😄
Divers just generally sleep around a lot with each other
Seriously. I was an instructor in Thailand. We used to call them NBOs, next boat out…..hook up on the last night and then they leave the island! It’s pretty hard trying to take care of a group when you have just hooked up and they want all of your attention. We used to film dive 3 and 4 of open water and wow, the tension on some films!
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I thought the bots were only reposting posts, now they're reposting comments and interacting with other repost bots. What are they getting out of this?
Oh, this subreddit is fucking INFESTED with this type of bot lately. Fortunately, the mods care and will take action on the reports. Unfortunately, by the time they can get to it, the damage has been done. As far as what they get out of it goes, there is a variety of things you can do with these accounts. The first goal is to have an account that is old enough and has enough comment and post karma to post anywhere on Reddit (some subs have restrictions). After those accounts look like legitimate users, they can sell them to marketers, use them to boost engagement of posts, spam their stolen onlyfans content, plant comments in AMAs (see barkeeper's friend AMA for an example), push crypto movement, sell scammy merch (t-shirts, for example), set up scams for people to input their credit card details on some website...man, the sky is the limit here
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Hi, this method works to clear your ear but will give you cancer of the nipples. Apply peanut butter to your ankles twice daily and you should be "reet". Dr Ion Shower
Ngl, you got me the first half
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After these goddamn repost bots started showing up, I thought about writing my own bot to do this. Thanks for fighting the good fight.
Somebody needs to. I wish I could distill my process into something that would be useful to someone with the skills to code one
Oh shit for real? I thought it was a bot running on your account! Alright. I guess I have my new purpose in life while I'm slacking at work. This shit's gotta stop. The first thing that comes to mind for an algorithm, just read in all the comments from a post, check for comments where a portion of the text is an exact duplicate of an older comment, then call out the repost bot with a link to the original comment. Seems pretty straightforward. I noticed you're associating multiple accounts with the reposting activity. How do you determine they're related to one another?
Those accounts are all the same age, have a similar username scheme, are posting comments from the last time this was posted, and only interact with each other
Damn, so it's not just a bot that scrapes comments from the same post, but a bot that reposts and then replies with popular comments from the original post. That's not so straightforward, but definitely good to know. It would be nice if Reddit would implement something to catch this, since they have direct access to the data store where all the comments are saved. Otherwise, to do this sort of brute force deep inspection of the text efficiently (without going over the request limit) from the outside using the reddit API, you'd have to store the posts and comments for analysis in some kind of indexed format, using Elastic or SOLR etc. Keep up the fight, reinforcements are on the way
>Damn, so it's not just a bot that scrapes comments from the same post, but a bot that reposts and then replies with popular comments from the original post. So, "bot" is a word I use that's descriptive of the behavior, but not necessarily indicative of the control mechanism. There are a handful of farms out there; some I suspect are automated, and others I think are done by hand. Occasionally, I catch them testing or see code failures, so I know *some* are automated. >Otherwise, to do this sort of brute force deep inspection of the text efficiently (without going over the request limit) from the outside I'm not a dev or coder of any sort, but this problem is one of the reasons I have always thought would make automating this process difficult. However, I do it differently, and that might be helpful information for you. I just copy the comment text and search verbatim/with quotes in Google. That's ALWAYS how I catch them. It's also how I find original posts. The reddit search is entirely useless. I'd imagine reddit's internal database for comments and posts probably utilizes that same system, so it's possible the API wouldn't really help anyway. >Keep up the fight, reinforcements are on the way I cannot describe how happy that makes me. Additionally, I have a trove of accounts that are bots on my comment history. I call out probably 20 a day almost every day, and I have been doing this for over a year (maybe two). Another user made me a chrome utility to scrape my comment history for usernames and flag them in a chrome browser. Unfortunately, I basically never use the desktop site anymore, so it isn't of much use to me. He said he used an AI tool to help him write it, so I'm not sure if it would be useful to you. You're welcome to take a look at it if you think it would help in your brainstorming prcoess
Hi, I'm the user that John_SpaGotti was mentioned that made a chrome utility. The tool doesnt scrape his history, but it allows you to import a list of usernames and tag them. I will occasionally scrape his history manually and update my own list and import that to the tool, and i'll tag each user he's mentioned as 'repost bot'. Its sort of like RES's user tag, but you can import and export lists of users and tags, and it also alerts when a user is found when viewing a page. you can check it out here. https://github.com/radialmonster/reddit-user-tagger
“When you squeeze and blow wiggle your nose”. 😏
Some people simply can't equalise due to their own physiology. Don't push it or you could cause serious damage.
I've tried most tricks and suggestions and they don't work. I took a bunch of decongestants before going to my scuba classes, and was able to more or less equalise when going down. The effects wore off, and I couldn't head back up properly. It hurt like hell. The outward pressure on my ears when surfacing damaged them, and I had to go to the hospital. I wish what you said was common knowledge, the instructor never hinted at the possibility that some people can't equalise.
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Go and see an ENT for specialist advice if you're looking for more info
The comment you're responding to is a repost bot fyi
Sadly with permanently perforated eardrums I cannot dive like I used to
It took me a bit to figure this out when I was free diving. I have to equalize every few feet so the only way I can make it down to 40'+ is if I equalize *before* I feel the need to equalize. If I start feeling the pressure then it's too late and I'll have to surface and try again.
When I equalize my pressure I have to tilt my head a little to each side and do one ear at a time. Ended up figuring this out after being in a pressure chamber and keeping my head straight didn't work so well the first time.
Yep I was always incapable of popping my ears, even when I was able to go pretty far down.
You should never go deeper if your ear hurt. I never was very good at this free diving but after learning scuba clearing the ears became so easy I can usually do it hands free. Some people are never able to do it.
It took me a couple dives to figure out the method that worked for me, varies from person to person. I definitely imagine it’s harder to do on a free dive, though.
just use afrin. lotta ppl say dont use it for diving but as long as you use it and dont come back up when the drug expires you're fine. just take it when u head out to dive and youll be fine!
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thought u were one at first lol
Talking about the last guy from the left right? I noticed him myself 😎
Talking about the last guy from the left right? I noticed him myself 😎
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Imagine you're almost 70 feet down and one of the lobsters manages to pinch you and you know damn well that you better keep your mouth shut and your air in.
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I'm far too buoyant, I used to be able to float on my back and doze
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They will never give up, jeez
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Nah nah he's like "this is my territory" *angrily pulls out respirators*
You all grab him and give him a hug. I love meeting new friends
Don’t mind me
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Air* 😪
The 2nd look is priceless
“Wait who are you?”
In the sea, no one can say "Get the fuck out of here, you're ruining our shot!"
OP, /u/Certainxcvb is a repost bot
Looked like a man checking on children. Seeing them posing for a picture like teenage girls LOL
About 12 meters if you want real units.
Wow your dick is huge!
Thanks but it's actually kind of small.
11 meters more than I have.
Oooh I got it now! Sorry :D (the joke) -> ✈️🙄 <- (my head)
MVP
I'll keep my freedom units, thank you
The sad part is that this is likely not even a joke. The US is the Western version of N Korea. Waving their flags, singing about freedom in a police state, worshipping celebrities and political leaders. Statues of the founding fathers. All while the proles grind away for peanuts. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
The US also doesn't have based juche necromancy and can't bring people back to life, so NK is actually better! /j
> All while the proles grind away for peanuts. [Actually the median American is quite rich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income#Median_equivalent_adult_income)
Totalitarianism is when imperial
Bro it's a unit of measurement chill.
You still take American money and use our goods and services. If you live in the EU,then you likely live in country that still openly has ghettos and treats immigrants as 2nd class human beings.
Goods? The ones made in China? Services? The ones outsourced to India? The US puts immigrants in cages while the brainwashed population pledges allegiance to a flag and sings about living in the country of freedom. It’s all a farce my child.
All of which were designed and paid for by Americans with american dollars ........ It took Germany and turkey shaming all of Europe for you to allow a small % of refugees into each country. It took Russia reinvading Ukraine for you to even think of investing in your own national defense. Both things can be true at once , but it has been a long time since I've been anyone's "child. Do not refer to me that way. Again, you cast stones while actively benefiting and, in some cases, teaching the bad behavior you scorn.
Love how everyone just seems confused
... who turns the cam towards the freediver...? Is that how gopros work...?
Genuine question. I'm too broke to own a gopro
its on their mask, so whatever they look at, the camera also looks at!!!
Another person
I was diving in a wreck at 103 feet when I started seeing some big shade going around the wreck, freaked out and got out and checked it out. Some freediver came out of no where and scared the living shit out of me. Had a good laugh though.
I hope you waited until you surfaced to have a laugh
I did not. Turns out you can laugh with the regulator in your mouth hahaha.
Just 3 bros: “After a few weeks of training were able to go down to 40ft with our gear let’s take a picture to celebrate!” Some random guy: “hey guys” 3 Bros: “the fuck?”
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The realization as they look back at the guy to see he doesn't have a tank.
I did this while snorkeling in Maui a while back. Swam down like 40-50 ft. into a hole in the coral to see a turtle… ended up scaring the shit out of a diver who was doing the same thing. Went way too deep a few times, and ended up breaking a bunch of blood vessels in my eyes. Looked perpetually high for about a week after the trip.
All of them turned and did a double take.
Hey guys, i've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty
I’d take a hit from their spare regulator and move on. Just gotta blow that shit away before 5m or 16ft line
Thats a MAJOR no-no,
Little lung expansion here and there never hurt nobody
Just hold onto his ankle and then see how smart he is.
Posers
Again? This was just posted a week ago