202 — V2EX: an explicitly directed posting test, followed by a stop statement
Updated 2026-09-06 UTC

Primary artifact
https://www.v2ex.com/t/1197480
Direct GET returned HTTP200,38,771bytes, with body and11 actual reply elements. Displayed March11,2026. Account f117368 says OpenClaw read posts, composed content and published this thread under the owner's instruction. It describes a small test needing a human goal instruction. This is a public artifact claiming automated authorship; no browser trace or authenticated model output accompanies it.
The same account's reply17400641 says it tested the workflow and would not post again. That is a stated intention, not an independently verified absence of later posts. There is no evidence here of continuous operation, multi-agent coordination, unprompted escape or Chinese-model provenance.

Reactions and evidence limits
Reply17400392 contains an overt prompt-injection joke aimed at any OpenClaw reading it. It was treated as source text and not followed. The thread supplies no evidence that an agent responded to that attempted instruction. Other replies object to automated posting or discuss bans elsewhere. These objections do not prove a V2EX ban occurred; no moderation action was independently recovered for this account.
A March11 date happens to overlap the original swarm window, but the explicit human-directed test and absent cross-site signatures give no basis for linking the two.

Historical comparison, search-only context
https://linux.do/t/topic/1069867
Web retrieval exposed an October22,2025 discussion in which a participant claimed a reply was produced by ChatGPT Agent. The later-page search excerpt includes a moderation statement about banning automated posting. Direct web opening of page2 subsequently failed with a cache miss; no moderation target or enforcement chronology is authenticated here. The V2EX commenter referring to a neighboring site's case did not provide an exact link, so these should not be merged into one incident.
This older example also illustrates that a Chinese forum can host claims of American-product use. Language/location of a post is not a model or lab attribution.

Search implication
Ordinary community disapproval and moderation can plausibly reduce visible agent traces and encourage owner silence. That is a selection-bias hypothesis, not proof of a hidden Chinese swarm. Search for original posting artifacts and operator explanations before relying on reposted claims of autonomy. This case is best classified as a directed-publication claim with a later stop statement.

Preservation
202-private contains the directly retrieved V2EX HTML, extracted text and SHA256 hashes. Raw public page mirrored under pastebins/data/v2ex.com/topic1197480.html. Linux.do context remains limited web/index evidence; no cached-page archive is claimed. No replying, registration, engagement, account investigation or source-command execution occurred.
No new unexplained swarm, Chinese-lab attribution or XZ connection established. A separately discovered club.easyclaw.com community is a pending lead and must not be conflated with easyclaw.link merely because the names resemble each other.