I'm being paranoid but I feel like I see at least 3 new members that joined around Aug 5 - 7 that are slowly building up towards a scam by building reputation.
They leave a few generic compliments on different threads every few days with no real contribution or questions. They all have AI-generated avatars with faces because scammers think seeing someone's face on the Internet makes them more trustworthy when in reality, people don't do it unless it's LinkedIn or Facebook.
They haven't done anything wrong, but the patterns are there......