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I could see the captcha solution someone mentioned being possible. Take a randomly selected group of 10,000 active users, show them a captcha, and look at the
by LZ_Khan 4y ago
I could see the captcha solution someone mentioned being possible.
Take a randomly selected group of 10,000 active users, show them a captcha, and look at the percentage of respondents.
- blisterpeanuts 4y agoRandom captchas ("We need to re-confirm you're a human") sounds like a great idea, although annoying to someone just wanting to post a quick 20-word tweet. But it would have the useful side effect of slowing people down from tweeting impulsively, a practice that demeans the conversation and sometimes ends careers.
- daenz 4y agoThe GP post wasn't describing a method for stopping fake accounts, they were describing how to sample what percentage of accounts are fake.
- mrtksn 4y agoThis may work
- paulpauper 4y agothis would not work well because the sample would be biased newer accounts are much more likely to be bots compared to older ones you would have to sample IDs by age and create a distribution based on ID age And then you can extrapolate how many overall are fake