Comment on Vote manipulation bots using sh.itjust.works?

MrKaplan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• farcaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks for taking action! That’s a pretty crazy number of accounts to set up for what appears like promoting a few bland articles from a bland AI-generated website.

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  • UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The bot creators were probably just testing the waters to make sure it works. I’ve been a victim of the vote-manipulation bots–they downvote attacked me. Glad to see people are trying to get a handle on this.

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• UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks for this! I am noticing more and more vote manipulation bots on Lemmy. Annoying af, so you’re awesome for researching that!

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow that looks productive. I’m assuming you can’t share the methodology for linking these accounts to help combat this stuff but I’m very curious if that isn’t an issue.

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  • MrKaplan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    essentially start by identifying the accounts posting links to the domain in question, then analyze the voting behavior of the accounts upvoting these posts. you can start by sorting out accounts that have legitimate activity and then narrow it down further and find common patterns that only apply to these accounts.

    most of them were also created in similar time frames.

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    • UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      then analyze the voting behavior of the accounts

      How do you do that? I’m noticing much more downvoting bots lately.

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