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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.
Yeah, WSO if you want recommendations I’d remove that. It’s pretty worthless when you know just typing out complete sentences gives a silver banana that was automatically generated by an algo.
I think part it is automatic based on word or sentence count. I have noticed that long comments get silver bananas very quickly.
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.
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
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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I've noticed this too
i fwd'd this to the team
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