Comment by rob
9 days ago
I agree with you that it's a bot.
They're getting very clever and tricky though; a lot of them have the owners watching and step in to pretend that they're not bots and will respond to you. They did this last week and tricked dang.
Where did they trick me? (You'll have to trust that I'm not a bot stepping in to ask that, of course.)
They're probably referring to this exchange where the bot owner claimed to use AI for their comments because they're not a native English speaker, which let them get off with a warning, after which they continued operating the account as before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199