this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Did you purge the bot accounts @tom@feddit.uk ? Can see a material decrease which is actually good
Haha yeh i did there was around 3k bots accounts which I found and purged hadn’t liked or subscribed to any communities and their email was a distinct pattern
Thanks for the vigilance - most seem to just be joining and staying quiet. They're like a ticking time bomb.
Just want to say - that alone, I hope, isn't automatically an assumption of them being a bot. I rarely comment on threads - the only reason I'm even commenting now, is so that I can show that I am, in fact, a human.
No need to worry - there were clearly patterns in the bot accounts that give them away. I imagine the vast majority or folks signed up here haven't posted so you could hardly rely on just that as your criteria.