You might be right. That account is gaining activity, and their response to me yesterday had a similar tone.

Dot@feddit.org “Dot.” stats pulled @ 10/22/2024, 12:08:45 PM EDT

• Account created 5 days ago (10/17/2024, 3:14:40 AM EDT)
• 230 contributions (= 185 posts + 45 comments)
• 46.0 average contributions / day
• 20.9 mins average time between contributions (assuming 8 hrs of sleep / day)
• 940 downvotes accrued
  • 15,039 net reputation points
  • ~7.7 mins between downvotes on average
  • ~4.8 average downvotes / submission
  • 17.00 upvote to downvote ratio
• 1,182 words written as comments, 1,636 words written in posts
• 564 words (~3 typed pages) written per day
• ~6 mins / day writing comments (40 words / min)
• ~27 mins / day making posts (40 words / min + 30 secs / post)
• ~3 hrs commenting/posting in the past 5 days which breaks down to
  • ~33 mins / day
  • ~9.5% of a full time job
  • 3.4% of their waking hours
• See the modlog for more info.

None of this takes into account time reading others’ posts/comments, or alts this user may secretly have.