Topic: Bots among us :) (Read 2030 times)
I noticed that too, it's possible they going to sell accounts in future with high activity and post amount, just keep reporting them for spaming.
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You can't expect him - or anyone else - to check every single post manually.
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You can't expect him - or anyone else - to check every single post manually.
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Afaik, Stunna has someone helping and it takes them ~2 days. So we are talking about ~32 workhours, which to me sounds enough to check every post at least quickly. Not sure if this is actually done, but its certainly not impossible or an inhumane task.
To be honest I doubt he really does that manually; if you think about it, it's a lot of work, considering the number of participants, the stupid amount of posts they'd have to go through, and the language barrier of many of those. And on top of that, it would still only be a quick glance, perhaps looking at size and a bit of content, but certainly ignoring context. In other words, even the bots mentioned here could probably fool such a method of verification. It's not impossible they do it, as you mentioned, but it seems like it would be a waste of time. On the other hand, it's probably not difficult to create a bot that does just that, and flags users that are suspicious for further manual verification.
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You can't expect him - or anyone else - to check every single post manually.
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You can't expect him - or anyone else - to check every single post manually.
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Afaik, Stunna has someone helping and it takes them ~2 days. So we are talking about ~32 workhours, which to me sounds enough to check every post at least quickly. Not sure if this is actually done, but its certainly not impossible or an inhumane task.
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You can't expect him - or anyone else - to check every single post manually.
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You can't expect him - or anyone else - to check every single post manually.
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Afaik, Stunna has someone helping and it takes them ~2 days. So we are talking about ~32 workhours, which to me sounds enough to check every post at least quickly. Not sure if this is actually done, but its certainly not impossible or an inhumane task.
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You can't expect him - or anyone else - to check every single post manually.
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You can't expect him - or anyone else - to check every single post manually.
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Afaik, Stunna has someone helping and it takes them ~2 days. So we are talking about ~32 workhours, which to me sounds enough to check every post at least quickly. Not sure if this is actually done, but its certainly not impossible or an inhumane task.
Maybe trying to push their post count up to try to join in signature campaigns. There is already rate limiting to the post for newbies. Should be able to stop some spams.
Yep may also be for that, but anyway for example Stunna checks the post history manually and i don't know if he would pay anyone with questionable history on these forums.But that's a little hard to confirm when they copy paste other random users "human" posts right? Like those paraphrasing bots.... they just sound like people not fluent in English.
Also those two examples in the OP. Their posts history is all deleted now. Guessing its the mods...
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Maybe trying to push their post count up to try to join in signature campaigns. There is already rate limiting to the post for newbies. Should be able to stop some spams.
Yep may also be for that, but anyway for example Stunna checks the post history manually and i don't know if he would pay anyone with questionable history on these forums.You can't expect him - or anyone else - to check every single post manually. I've no idea what the bots are intended to be used for but I'm sure they'll get busted before they even get the chance to build up enough activity to participate in a sig deal. Even if they did I think they'd certainly get busted after pretty quick.
Maybe trying to push their post count up to try to join in signature campaigns. There is already rate limiting to the post for newbies. Should be able to stop some spams.
Yep may also be for that, but anyway for example Stunna checks the post history manually and i don't know if he would pay anyone with questionable history on these forums.
Ya... signature makes sense as well. Lots of POS coins cropping up with their giveaways to people with so-n-so minimum activity etc.
Maybe trying to push their post count up to try to join in signature campaigns. There is already rate limiting to the post for newbies. Should be able to stop some spams.
Anyway, I'm not sure if this is an old issue that has always been there or something's that cropped up recently.
Indeed, you can find reports here in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=390303.0;all from time to time.
Some bots are smarter and have the paraphrasing skills, like this https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6081854
Damn.... that's some smart bots out there!! I guess its like growing chickens in a farm.... sold to coin devs once it reaches maturity. just roughly eyeballing the number of zombie one liner posts on almost all threads, I'm pretty sure a big chunk of the user names here in this forum are bots.
Any solutions to this pest problem? How about newbie accounts requiring captcha while posting? That should deter newer ones atleast right?
Anyway, I'm not sure if this is an old issue that has always been there or something's that cropped up recently.
Indeed, you can find reports here in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=390303.0;all from time to time.
Some bots are smarter and have the paraphrasing skills, like this https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6081854
How do you know that it is bot and not just some user who is raising his activity by copying post all over tha place? Is there a difference really?
Either it is a bot or a spamming real user, so the account should be reported and get banned.
How do you know that it is bot and not just some user who is raising his activity by copying post all over tha place? Is there a difference really?
Buying and selling accounts is not against the rules on this forum. So they're technically not doing anything wrong.
Not if they are posting on topic. 
Buying and selling accounts is not against the rules on this forum. So they're technically not doing anything wrong.
The have noticed how much account's are being sold for, so they start to 'invest'
They will be repoted and banned sooner i think...but i've seen someone selling accounts claiming that people are working for him on accounts.
The have noticed how much account's are being sold for, so they start to 'invest'
There are are few more for sure, some of them copy and paste text or other posts somehow.
Interesting find, especially considering the posts were made only a few minutes within each other from different accounts.
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