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Several ways, none of which is individually full-proof, but taken together they are a very good indicator: - Does the user have a profile photo, or is it the d
by portman 16y ago
Several ways, none of which is individually full-proof, but taken together they are a very good indicator:
- Does the user have a profile photo, or is it the default user icon?
- How many friends does the user have? (Generally 0, 1, or 2 is highly suspicious)
- Does the user have a real name? [Edit: we have a blacklist of fake names.]
- zalew 16y agoDoes the user have a real name? I'm very curious how do you believe you can check that.
- DeusExMachina 16y agoThey can be an indicator, but do you check every subscription? Are you going to refuse subscription telling people "sorry, you don't have enough friends"? Here is a very quick experiment I made: - Get the name of one of your contact and the surname of another one and subscribe with that. - Take the picture of a random girl on the internet that looks real, put a copy and paste famous quote in the description like "it will not rain forever". - Subscribe to a couple of groups or pages with the word "sex" in them. Bang, hundred of friends in a couple of days, and the profile now seems legit. Still harder than generating fake profiles automatically, but I think that with a little bit of effort this can be automated too. There are also companies that will give you some hundred of friends for a fee.
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