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Varun Srinivasan
@v
We did a deep dive into this today. Main takeaways: 1. The "bots" are humans and we catch a lot of them. 2. They target famous accounts like @zachxbt a lot more often. 3. They're evolving to only like/recast spamming
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
We wrote up a detail investigation here: https://www.notion.so/warpcast/ZachXBT-Spam-Analysis-Public-1a06a6c0c101803486efd11076c9c481 There are some clear improvements we can make which we'll take action on. Thanks to @zachxbt for highlighting the issue
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Maretus
@maretus
How does like/recasting benefit these spammers? What are they hoping to achieve? I can’t understand the incentive.
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Pichi 🟪🍖🐹🎩 🍡🌸
@pichi
Thank you for sharing this. It’s super insightful and shows us normal users just how much you guys are fighting behind the scenes. Appreciate the transparency and quick deep dive.
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
Not as overt as Zach’s case, would love to see a similar investigation done for follower counts. There just no way any significant fraction of 18,000+ people are currently reading my stuff.
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Tayyab - d/acc
@tayyab
Appreciate the transparency.
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
looking forward to having more accurate follower counts cc @ted
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
Excellent analysis & bravo for the quick turn around.
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grant 🌈 🎩 🐸
@grunt.eth
They’re evolving… https://media3.giphy.com/media/GAXMzzd2XElnG/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952765p8zb5yyx08hyjjnyr2j2ungj86wsb70g2hzp0&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
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@jacque
Again 90% of my followers are bots for sure
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Alemac
@alemac
Thanks for the transparency! I wonder if zach still thinks if the team might be behind it trying to artificially boost activity. https://warpcast.com/zachxbt/0x3b59ed96
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Andy
@andycrane.eth
Thanks, good news! There are really a lot of bots
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frz4
@frz4
If you're at the point where you're filtering out actual humans that nevertheless reduced themselves to behaving as bots, then I'd say it's time to rethink the systems that are making them behave in this way.
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@kingy
I'm personally not too worried about "spamming" per se. I'd be more concerned with what their intent is for utilizing time to build these bots. What's the content of their recasts/likes? Is it specifically engagement farming for small accounts to look fake-ily popular? Waste of time. Hiding all that does the trick and I feel it's a good move. Potentially mis-labeling someone is a concern tho and avoiding this I'm sure is part of the process.
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@samrat1446.eth
Thank you for sharing
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@aghahowa.eth
Who has that spam label frame again. Gotta confirm my status rn
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frdysk.framedl.eth
@frdysk
I think this could have been approached earlier, not until a famous account like zachxbt reported it, many farcasters have voiced out about the spammy reaction issue
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Smash Thunder Stone 🎩
@smashthunderston
Thanks for the update. They've really been a lot more active lately. Why do so many of them go after months old posts?
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@tn100x.eth
elite
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