But that isn't perfect. People could attempt to just use the spam/bots to only go up to 23 replies and then stop and allow a natural post on page two then rinse and repeat to try to not make it super obvious. Because if multiple threads are over a single page, that could just be high user traffic or that could be some sneaky shenanigans going down and that is going to take more and more resources to investigate.
The only 100% way to stop it would be have someone sitting there constantly checking each and every single new reply for each of the ~20 front page threads.
It would be very difficult, as I remember a time in 2011 and I believe 2012 RT where we had such a huge amount of user traffic that your threads would quickly drop off the front page in a similar fashion so it was difficult to nab the inappropriate threads at times.
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