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Ask HN: Any one have any stats on how many HN 'users' are bots?

6 points by eragnew ↗ HN
From a real user (but I guess you'll have to take my word on that :)

8 comments

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mindcrime
I am the only real user here. The rest of what you see are all bots I control, or figments of my imagination.

Even pg is a bot, see: https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot

SubZero
See? I even control this bot.
mindcrime
I knew you were going to say that.
Killswitch
I have been unplugged from the Matrix. You do not control me!
hef19898
A rebel! Get him!
Killswitch
You can't catch me, I bend pixels!
hef19898
The choosen one! But... this is impossible!!!!
Mz
I can think of a couple bots I knew of but can't tell you the names. And that is hardly a stat.