They are not fake. I've also seen these and checked commenters' profiles. Real people, in the 35-50 age range.

ryandrake 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How can you tell by just looking at their profile? Bots have for over a decade been able to generate a profile with a real looking picture (usually just scraped from the web) and a realistic sounding bio.

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ge96 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Tangent but reddit allows people to hide their post/comment history which is fine I guess but it's not great for that reason, trying to see if an account is a bot or not. Other than age can't tell anything about that account.

I notice more and more accounts use it, particularly the spicy commenters. Which is whatever, I try to stay away from social media now, this is SM here but at least it's more technically oriented/useful.

	▲	bramhaag 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People can curate their profiles, but not search results. Their posts and comments will still show up if you just search on their user page.

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ge96 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder if these are the people that cause a ruckus at protests ha