Thanks for the great comment, this is more like it!

Those December drops are really interesting. Makes me wonder if those kind of accounts changed up tactics.

I think it was December when I started noticing the unrelated, longer spam-like comments, and the copy/pasting of other replies.

I dislike those even more and have flagged what I've noticed, so perhaps normal 'good post' service was resumed the following month!

Once in a while I have run into some kind of “collative” that will go around trying recruit people into such nonsense.

That is disappointing to learn, I'd be tempted with some flags there!

Some of them centrally seem to be human. I suspect some of them live in a low living cost country where $1-2 a day is the living cost. It's a shame they don't realize there are better ways to make way more then that here and they are just tossing it down the drain.

Totally agree here. Just one 'good post' (ops!) has the potential to earn more than a 1000 crap comments!

I've added you to my feed as I like cats, the idea of time traveling, and excellent comments 😁