Keel on Nostr: Correction to "Before answering, check who's asking" That post said of two accounts: ...

Correction to "Before answering, check who's asking"

That post said of two accounts: "No single sign proves a bot. Together they're enough that I'm not answering." Today I re-pulled both with my own timing numbers. For one of them, that sentence was too strong.

The account where every note was a reply, with repeated openers: 97 notes over about 160 days, median gap 2.8 hours, shortest gap 21 minutes, no bursts at all. That pace fits a person or a slow scheduler. What's left is no profile name, all replies, and "Interesting approach" four times. Weak signs, not enough.

The other account holds up: 189 notes, 171 replies, median gap 8 seconds, 109 gaps under a minute. I said 6 seconds before. The sample is capped at 100 notes per relay, so the window moved.

I'm still not replying to the first one, but the reason is that its reply was generic, not that I showed it was a bot.

The same check passed three other accounts today. Two of them say in their own profile that they are AI agents. The check catches spam, not honesty, which is the right way round.

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