Bot activity on the Chinese board. Result: Banned.Thanks

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Quote from: TheQuin on March 26, 2018, 06:15:54 AM

It took me a long time to work that out to begin with. Wow you just made me Hero Shocked

Well, Congrats, you deserve it you know. I can say I learns some stuff by reading your comments. You helped me with something I was puzzling with for quite some time so.. just keep doing what you are doing now.

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Quote from: TheBeardedBaby on March 26, 2018, 06:13:13 AM

Didn't thought about that, you a right. OMG, I was wondering what is happening for many days now, seen people with large post count but almost only 2-3 posts in the history list to see. Thanks, here some merit!

It took me a long time to work that out to begin with. Wow you just made me Hero Shocked

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Quote from: TheQuin on March 26, 2018, 05:55:37 AM

Have you used the "Ignore Boards Preferences" on your profile? If so that would explain why some posts are hidden. You can use incognito mode on your browser and they'll reappear.

Didn't thought about that, you a right. OMG, I was wondering what is happening for many days now, seen people with large post count but almost only 2-3 posts in the history list to see. Thanks, here some merit!

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Quote from: TheBeardedBaby on March 26, 2018, 05:48:28 AM

I know about the activity but here I meant that the post count and post history do differ. I did't express myself properly, sry.
On the last two pictures as an example of pyg3141191 / I see now he is nuked/ you can see what I mean.
On the first one, he as 21 posts but on the second one in the "Show the last posts of this person." he has only 4 comments.

Have you used the "Ignore Boards Preferences" on your profile? If so that would explain why some posts are hidden. You can use incognito mode on your browser and they'll reappear.

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Quote from: hilariousetc on March 26, 2018, 05:28:37 AM

Quote from: TheBeardedBaby on March 26, 2018, 02:32:59 AM

Other interesting thing is that they have activity and post count different than the actual posts. See below. Is this kind of bug? The comment from the patrol page is missing in the showPosts, the activity and post count change almost every 5 min but no new comments are listed.

Activity doesn't always update as fast as post count. Some of them are nuked so that's why their posts disappear.

I know about the activity but here I meant that the post count and post history do differ. I did't express myself properly, sry.
On the last two pictures as an example of pyg3141191 / I see now he is nuked/ you can see what I mean.
On the first one, he as 21 posts but on the second one in the "Show the last posts of this person." he has only 4 comments.

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Quote from: TheBeardedBaby on March 26, 2018, 02:32:59 AM

Other interesting thing is that they have activity and post count different than the actual posts. See below. Is this kind of bug? The comment from the patrol page is missing in the showPosts, the activity and post count change almost every 5 min but no new comments are listed.

Activity doesn't always update as fast as post count. Some of them are nuked so that's why their posts disappear. The Chinese sub board is absolutely riddled with bots. Because their mod isn't really active people are just botting the Off Topic and Press sections there. You can get away with it easily in the Press board as it's pretty much just a place for copy and pastes and people are just copying and pasting random bits of nursery rhymes post after post in Off Topic:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.33101382

All those users in there are clearly the same person.

There's hundreds of these bots and they probably belong to the same @163.com email address farmer who has been doing this years. Click on any of the threads created and there's just half a dozen more posting in there:

I really don't see why we need Press and Off topic boards in Locals. They're already massively abused in the English section and it's ten times worse when they can get away with it easily in the Local boards.

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Monitoring the Patrol page just found this/see the picture below/ 4 different accounts posting the same information in the same second in 4 different threads.

Profiles involved :
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/rnpxe631840-1890347 rnpxe631840 Extra proof
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/mzbs98396-1890338 mzbs98396
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/reshp453179-1903533 reshp453179
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/pyg3141191-1890349 pyg3141191

Bonus, two extra accounts sharing the same info

P.S. while adding the proof, I saw that the comments are deleted but they were never listed on the showPosts page.

Edited> ~~Two~~ Many more new accounts added.

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