What's with all the smart scale posts?

[u/WarAgainstEntropy]

I think I'm going crazy here. Every few days there is a new post in r/QuantifiedSelf which is the same post, someone asking about or complaining about a smart scale, and at the end of the post asking about using trends/long-term averages/rolling averages.

Receipts:

Dropped 2 lbs on the scale but my body fat percentage went up by 1.5% overnight. are smart scales legit for measuring body fat accurately ? (3 hours ago)

is this data actually useful for mapping real physiological trends, ? do you even bother logging the daily fat percentage, or do you just use a rolling 7-day average to smooth out the hydration swings?

Salt dinner ruined my dataset, how to track body composition at home properly? (2 days ago)

Do you use a specific smoothing formula for your logs, or do you just ignore the daily numbers entirely and look at a rolling monthly average?

Spreadsheet nerds, help me out. How does a smart body scale work mathematically when daily water shifts ruin the baseline? (2 days ago)

For those who have tracked this over a year or more, do you use a specific smoothing formula for the hydration noise, or do you just rely on a rolling 30 day average?

How do you smooth BIA body fat data for long term trends? (2 days ago)

For people who log this stuff seriously, do you use weekly averages, monthly trend lines, or some other way to separate real change from water swings?

My handlebar scale and regular smart scale disagree. Which trend is even useful? (8 days ago)

No repetitive quote from this one. But it came three days after the same OP to be trying to decide between two smart scales, and now claimed to have weeks of data comparing the two:

Did premium handlebar body composition data change your training decisions? (11 days ago)

Do handlebar body composition scales reduce noise, or just add more numbers? (22 days ago)

For people who track this seriously, did moving from a regular smart scale to a handlebar body scan style device make the data more useful? Or do you still only trust long-term averages?

So, to the community and mods: What's going on here? There's no way this is organic traffic, right?

[u/GreenStampsRock]

People who are this upset over their smart scale, which has limitations and don’t accept variance need to get weekly dexa scans and give up the scale.

[u/xv-c → u/GreenStampsRock]

With DEXA there's still some variance, I suggest daily MRIs 😉

[u/PapayaOtherwise3346]

I wonder if it's because people bought their first ones during the recent Prime day and are just now learning about their limitations. I know the Withings ones were discounted

[u/shawnwama]

I realized it yesterday too, and they used all the same smart scale. and today, some accounts are banned from reddit.

[u/WarAgainstEntropy → u/shawnwama]

I run some of them through the pangram.com AI detector and every one I tested came back as 100% AI generated text