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#1 Marklar

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Posted 25 November 2016 - 19:53

Just out of interest

 

I noticed recently that a lot OP posts (simple things like in the McLaren thread) are liked by a bunch of people (and usually just by them) who have the status "Awaiting Email Confirmation", if I click on their profile it says that the user is no longer active, even if he liked just a few seconds ago something. It seems to happen recently a lot, at least thats my impression. Any particular reason for this or is this just normal?

 

This almost reminds me of these weird twitter bots......


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#2 Vitesse2

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Posted 25 November 2016 - 21:47

Yes, they're almost all bots. Usually Russian. We get anything up to thirty a day registering and I try to knock them down ASAP - they're usually easy to spot, even if they don't log likes on OPs. Some of the IP addresses they are using are now approaching fifty different IDs! No longer active means they've subsequently been banned. I do hit a lot of them before they return the confirmation email - although some never do that.

 

There has been some discussion among mods about the possibility of disabling likes until members are fully registered and authorised ...