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I feel so stupid about never having thought of this; how naive am I? I mean, yes, I knew about people paying for likes in order to boost their visibility, but
by qwertox 2y ago
I feel so stupid about never having thought of this; how naive am I?
I mean, yes, I knew about people paying for likes in order to boost their visibility, but never imagined that the platforms themselves would add fake likes to accounts in order to make their users feel more happy about the platform.
This makes me question the reason for X making the move to hide the origin of likes, even if my posts never receive any likes, except for likes from bots.
Talking about bots, since uBlock Origin breaks my "block user" button, I've resorted to block bots by reporting them as accounts encouraging suicide, this then gives me a "block user" button which does work. The interesting thing is that all of these accounts still do exist, never get removed, even though it's obvious that they are non-user accounts ( like https://x.com/Siothit074kkNx https://x.com/Siothit074kkNx ).
- hibikir 2y agoThis happens in videogame matchmaking too: Someone that loses too much quits, so you want to giving people a positive boost of a very easy game every so often if they lose too badly. Filling lobbies with bad bots does this effectively
- dielll 2y agoAshley Madison did it and it became a scandal