Eli5: Social media posts that are obviously just farming for comments

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I see posts all the time, usually I’m popular groups, that read like:

We’re going through and deleting inactive members, reply “yes” to remain the the group

Or

No word in the English language contains a “oo” except the work good, prove me wrong

These posts are obviously just farming for comments for some reason. Are they looking for active accounts? Can they use your response in some nefarious way? Is it just someone trying to up their popularity or comment count?

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Social media algorithms take into account how much activity a post gets when deciding how many people to show it to.

If I post something and get 100 comments, the site will show it to more people than if I post it and get 0 comments because it assumes I’m posting more relevant content if more people are interacting with it.

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