I can't recall where I read it, but the entire 100,000 almost without a single UID are all manufactured by bots.
I can't recall if it were the 500,000 600,000 or 700,000's.
Judging by what you've uncovered it's probably the 600,000's that were affected.
Have a look at the UID's being created about ten days ago, almost all created and logged out practically immediately (some as low as two seconds after registering they log out)
you may have read it here?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/post-a-spammer-thread-1591598This is also useful to see variation in monthly accounts created.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=statsMany accounts are created, never used, with very similar names. I wonder if these are just cover for accounts that will be used.
There are other zero post accounts that are coming back to life. These have more unique names.
It is impossible to know if an account is inactive or banned. Ridiculous really.
Lauda had said that there were "mass bannings" but we are not privy to know which accounts. Banned accounts need to be marked for all to see.
Without such info, we can only guess if they are likely to be activated in the future, or if they are dead accounts due to banning.
I have not looked yet at accounts created 10 days ago, but accounts created and immediately logged out sound like the throwaway accounts I spoke of. (if you give me a # i will see exactly what you are looking at)
The 300+ farmed accounts I have listed, almost without exception, post immediately. That is the most efficient way to start the ranking up process.
Login - post - logout - repeat.
Of course, the farmer may have to change his strategy since my thread highlights his flaws, so these accounts maybe of a new class.
But again, as we cannot see the status of an account ban, without checking, rechecking and later checking again, we cannot know if they will or have become active. An impossible task for us members. Admin and global mods can see all this easily.
Theymos even deactivated the member search around the time of the last farmed account issue, (may?) as it was "too slow".
Therefore, I have ignored (nearly) all zero post accounts. They hold little or no value without posts/rank.
When they post, if they ever decide to post if they are not banned already, then they will become exposed.
With the connections made on this thread, in conjunction with my thread, it looks a lot like very few people/groups are behind these many hundreds of accounts. Is that how you are seeing this?
(i cannot see a way that theymos/global mods did not/do not know all this already and could have just told us or interacted..)
