Silver Bananas - automatic?

What’s the deal here? There’s no way this is always someone else behind the screen shooting these out. I get them almost instantly after posting something to a thread; what’s the point if you aren’t limiting them to actually only when a user targets your post?

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My guess is that they are using some sort of algorithm to issue SBs based on some sort of "quality check" for the posts. 

 

I’m pretty sure they aren’t automatic. There should always be a user clicking them on the other end.

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I'm pretty sure they aren't automatic. There should always be a user clicking them on the other end.

I do not think this is 100% true.  It has not happened lately, there was short period of time, in which I received multiple silver bananas immediately after hitting reply to comment.  There is no way someone could read and react so quickly. 

 

I noticed that too for a reply I made once, it was pretty weird.

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I think most are user-based but I have also experienced getting SBs the SECOND you post something. There's no way anyone is that fast.

Maybe high % SB users are given more automatically, who knows

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I have actually suspected something similar myself over the past year. Definitely causing silver banana inflation! Sometimes it is just 1 SB but usually it is 2-3 very shortly after I make a longer post. Even happens at really odd hours of the day/night. I’m not opposed to the practice, but it did catch me off guard at first.

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