Apr
29th
2023
Why nobady talks about the bots here? · 9:53am Apr 29th, 2023
Hi, you probably don't know this, but there are hundreds of bots on this site. When I opened the Users tab, I couldn't find a single new user tjat wasn't a bot. There are literally hundreds of bots joining every day and nobody talks about it. And what's worse, I have no idea what the bots actually do, only a few of them have adds on them, most is just gibberish and links (don't open them, they are probably viruses) or nothing! I don't understand this.
Does anyone have more info on this, because I would love to hear it.
Why are you bumping around in the Users section to begin with?
That's just how it is.
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Just checking what all the tabs here actually are. Also this is a preaty new problem (relatively speaking), the number of users has been on the rise since 2021, but the number of both stories and blogs has been on the decline since 2015 and seams unaffected by the number of users. There are way more bots joining now, then there were users joining at the peak of the brony fandom. I just find it concerning as I have no clue about the purpose of these bots. Maybe they're preparing to spam and crash this website, maybe they are collecting data about the real users (the amount of things you can learn about other users as a fellow user is quite shocking) or maybe its nothing. I really don't know.
My best guess is that its for linkbuilding/spamdexing, for search engine optimization. I don't really know, just searched wikipedia for a bit. fortunately, it's likely not an issue for this site, but it does suck. kinda funny seeing how many new accounts are joining every month: its now at its highest its ever been. It's a shame, really, they are all over the internet now, looking for any forum/site they can spam to. Not a single site is safe, especially popular social media, which are filled with bots that actually are trying to phish. Judging by statistics, i'd wager about 135k of the 430k accounts on this site are bots now. lets just hope they stay making accounts and not doing anything else.
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Yes, let's hope.