Self-claimed contractor describes program to study Exo-Biospheric-Organisms
I saw this on reddit early this morning and was struck by the length of the post. This has to be one of the longest intro posts in history. I thought reddit had a word or character limit. I have been a redditor for more than a decade and I tend to get long-winded on some of my posts to the point where I hit their limit and then get forced to either edit or break it into smaller posts (part 1, part 2, etc).<p>I don&#x27;t know about the content of the post. It seems like bullshit but I&#x27;m a geoscientist, not a bio-anything.<p>A fairly new post claims to have run it through ChatGPT or something looking for similarity in content and writing style and according to their search they claim that the post history, content and style is similar to posts by another redditor who not coincidentally I suspect, asked a bunch of questions of the OP and basically established credibility for OP early in the comment history. LOL. (&#x2F;u&#x2F;Punjabi-Batman)<p>Asking yourself questions and then answering them under a different username is classic Reddit from the old days when spez, kn0thing, and others had multiple accounts that they used to try to drive eyeballs to their new site. Fake it till you make it. It&#x27;s pretty funny that the fact that OP seemed to be legit to other users was due to the speed and depth of replies to the guy who legitimized his post. I think it probably is not hard to give a quick answer to a set of questions when you are the one doing the asking.<p>Of course this is different now. Reddit still has backlash from multiple subs about their dumbass moves to lock down external API access and monetize everything before IPO. &#x2F;r&#x2F;pics still has John Oliver and &#x2F;r&#x2F;videos is dumping text instead of video. LOL<p>To me this smells like someone high up in reddit picked a subject that would be controversial enough (lots of recent UAP controversy) to attract some eyeballs and then took lots of &quot;data&quot; from various historical public posts, UFO conspiracy sites, crackpots, and some invented from whole cloth and made a loooong (long post is long style) post to try to get some eyeballs. Add in assistance from mods and admins to keep deleting the user so that it seems like someone, somewhere in three-letter space doesn&#x27;t want any of this posted and you have a semitransparent effort by reddit to get some eyeballs by any means necessary.<p>For pure entertainment value I rate it a 6&#x2F;10. It could&#x27;ve been improved if there were photos (in a pics or it didn&#x27;t happen kinda way).