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> a group that can cordinate votes to raise the profile of posts Are we calling that spamming now?
by hollerith 2y ago
> a group that can cordinate votes to raise the profile of posts
Are we calling that spamming now?
- defrost 2y agoRead the comments made by the listed accounts in the past few hours and describe their content.
- LinuxBender 2y agoThat is called "warming up" spammer accounts, a technique most spammers use and the warmup method and timing will vary by the intended use. Some spammers don't really know how to do this correctly. I did something similar to this a long time ago on IRC when channels would be operated by "power trippers". I made a bunch of accounts spread out over months, then would slowly join them to a channel with a power-tripping operator. When they would kick/ban myself or others for disagreeing with a statement, a warmed up account would reply. They would kick/ban and another account on another IP would reply ... and so on. So there are multiple use cases for warming up accounts. Sometimes I could get another operator to kick/ban the power tripping operator and sometimes it was just entertainment. Eventually they would realize that 65+% of their audience they were power tripping in front of was just me and they would never know if they kicked all of "me".
- djbusby 2y agoSometimes that part is called "astroturfing"