Asklemmy @lemmy.ml squid_slime @lemm.ee 3w ago

Keep seeing incestuous posts on lemmy by day old accounts with no post history

Each of these posts have been accompanied by an image, a romantic fruit bowl bought by the guardian as a Valentine's gift. A bed in a new flat with one double bed to be share with the father, and a few others that followed the same pattern but I have forgotten the post. These posts also seem to delete.

Any ideas the hell is going on with this?

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The bed is super weird. But it's not weird in a lot of places for valentines gifts to extend to "anyone you love in any capacity" instead of strictly romantic love. My mom has given me chocolates and a valentines card every year since I can remember and it's a normal thing around here.
- Yeah I've given my daughter something for Valentines Day every year, it's pretty normal?
- Yeah, my dad would get me and my twin something small and mother something big. So if he got her a lot of chocolates, we'd get a little thing of chocolates! The bed thing is
  
  Weird.
- true and i think within reason sending a family member a Valentines gift can be normal and have no romantic intention. the recent posting following a particular pattern of behavior does however concern me and without that previous context i wouldn't of noticed the bouquet of fruit.
I haven't seen any, but that's extremely strange. Sometimes we get trolls that spam racist memes on many accounts for a couple days at a time before getting bored of playing whack a mole as the moles, this might be a similar situation.
- Its puzzling and keep an eye out they seem to get posted weekly. And when someone points out the oddness in the comment they are soon deleted.
  
  I know, normally the racist trolls do it for the engagement, not to immediately delete upon getting pushback. It's odd, this is entirely different.
Is it one person posting these, or multiple accounts? It might be a new guy. Maybe he thinks he has to get his karma up before he can enjoy the full site.
- They have all been day one accounts and has happened several times over the last few months.
I saw one of these arrangements from Dad earlier, started writing a comment then decided better.

Yes, this is definitely odd.
- i will try and document them for a mega thread at somepoint, if you get the chance then send them my way :)
I just chose not to comment on that one haha
Roll Tide!

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