Quote from: hilariousandco on May 31, 2018, 08:19:07 AM

Keep a list of them or post them in Meta. I've been monitoring which threads this is happening in and locking the threads.

As much as I like that, there's still the possibility competitors will use this to get rid of competition.
You've seen my thread [Mods: NUKE 30 act] Commercial Spambots post and delete 1000s of posts per day, only 1 out of 5 reported threads has been locked (I'm not sure if that was done by Mods or by the thread owner).

Quote from: iasenko on May 31, 2018, 08:30:30 AM

Seems like it take more time to report a bot profile then to make one, well not for LoyceV, of course Wink

I should make a script too when I get more free time to concentrate on it.

I already have such a script Tongue

All I need as input is the thread URL with active bumping bots, linking directly to the last page, and the number of legit unique posters on the last page. I'll run my script for an hour, and report back. Feel free to post some links. Feel free to PM me a list of URLs.
I don't bother taking screenshots, an Admin can check deleted posts if there is any doubt.

@hilariousandco: if you're willing to go after them, I'll gladly improve my script to count how many times a certain account deletes a post. I was even thinking of automating it to search unread posts: in 6 seconds, 12 threads got bumped. Many of those must be bump bots, so my plan is to make a script that takes the last x threads, then checks the last page of each, and reports bump bots when found. But I'll only go through the hassle if someone is willing to nuke a very long list.

Update: bump bots are changing their pattern too, see here for instance: many new accounts, created on the same day, post a random oneliner and don't delete it. Or maybe much later. The whole Altcoin section feels infested.

And there is of course the join airdrop spam which is a great loophole for bumping a thread.