Good fake engagement would be more convincing and harder to detect.
Instead what you see is a post from a fresh account that is a copy/repost of one of the top posts in either that or a sibling subreddit.
This is then followed by a half dozen accounts reposting the top comments from the original as their own comments. This is often where they mess up and it's easily detectable when not the OP responds as the OP.
If you check back in a month or two or so, the accounts are inevitably banned by Reddit or shilling something somewhere else (with a minimum age/rep requirement) themselves and/or using the accounts to express support for something shilled. The "resume writer" was annoying prolific.
I find it doubtful that Reddit corporate is using such an approach to try to drive up engagement numbers.
Instead what you see is a post from a fresh account that is a copy/repost of one of the top posts in either that or a sibling subreddit.
This is then followed by a half dozen accounts reposting the top comments from the original as their own comments. This is often where they mess up and it's easily detectable when not the OP responds as the OP.
If you check back in a month or two or so, the accounts are inevitably banned by Reddit or shilling something somewhere else (with a minimum age/rep requirement) themselves and/or using the accounts to express support for something shilled. The "resume writer" was annoying prolific.
I find it doubtful that Reddit corporate is using such an approach to try to drive up engagement numbers.