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by inasio 506 days ago
This is what he replied when asked about the backdated comments:

> The backdated answers were an internal test. We conceived of a bot that would provide a quality answer to a thread without a reply after 1+ years. That too also failed. Instead, I’m considering pruning all threads without a reply as they clutter up the forums.
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MichaelZuo 506 days ago
He’s an SEO guy at shopify, so he likely doesn’t care about the consequences of doing shady SEO experiments with old user’s accounts…
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naijaboiler 506 days ago
Thats some really shady stuff. Its one thing to provide answers with AI bot. Its totally disingenuous to 1) backdate it 2) assume the alias of a real person
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