Another suspected case of bots being used to upvoat comments (whatever)

submitted ago by NeedleStack

HaHaBird is an account of 1.3 years (opened August 20, 2015) who only started commenting 13 days ago.

HaHaBird's comments from 22 hours ago have precisely 11 upvoats and no downvoats. Archive.

His one comment from 7 days ago received 0 upvoats.

His comments from 11 days received 5 upvoats total.

HOWEVER his comments from 12 days ago received precisely or at least 7 upvoats for every single comment.

13 days ago every single one of his comments received at least 16 upvoats.

So what is going on here with these upvoats? Bots? Helpful alts logging in and upvoating?

I accept if I'm totally wrong but this activity is extremely suspicious and I wanted voat's feedback.

HaHaBird ago

I have already Report Spammers on /v/ReportSpammers @AustralianPolice @EnglishPolice @measuredtime

NeedleStack ago

Yes. EnglishPolice (alt of AustralianPolice) tried to get EarthPorn recently.

HaHaBird ago

giant upvote bot brigades

http://i.imgur.com/ABtwP3k.gif

NeedleStack ago

Obviously. He can't deny it. Posting in the same sets of subs at the same time over extensive periods, etc.

HaHaBird ago

Stop comparing myself to them. I am not coming anywhere close to what they are doing. @NeedleStack @Atko @PuttItOut

NeedleStack ago

You can understand why anyone would conclude you bought upvoats or used bots to upvoat your comments.

How else did you get exactly 16 upvoats for every comment one day, exactly 7 upvoats for every comment another day, and exactly 11 upvoats for every single comment from a day ago?

Buying upvoats or using alts to upvoat your comments is not cool and probably violates Voat's terms of use.

HaHaBird ago

I don't have enough money to buying upvoats and i don't have enough time to create alt account and use those account for upvoats. Last night i share my accounts with my facebook/twitter/google+.friends. Even i am also confused how i got so many likes soo far..

http://i.imgur.com/BYsErx5.gif

NeedleStack ago

Stop. It's so obvious. NO ONE gets precisely 11 upvoats for every single comment they made one day, 7 upvoats for every single comment they made another day, and 16 upvoats for every single comment another day. That's evidence of automation.

AustralianPolice ago

@NeedleStack @townbike First of all i am not spammer or. Lot of inactive subs are again active because of mine posting and i don't think its bad. what do you think @Atko @PuttItOut

NeedleStack ago

@Atko @PuttItOut I may have found another account using bots for upvoats. Please see the post text and this comment.

HaHaBird ago

I may have found another account using bots for upvoats.

http://i.imgur.com/tm3KqzT.gif

NeedleStack ago

I think in this case he's acting alone and not in cahoots with those political anti-Trump posters who used bots recently.

I think he's using bots as a power play because he wants to start modding subverses. He put in a subverse request for /v/whoa today.

HaHaBird commented exclusively in u/AustralianPolice (AP) and u/EnglishPolice's (EP) posts in /v/whoa between 21 - 22 hours ago. AP and EP are two of the alts I reported in a TIL post a couple of months ago. I contend that these alts are not legitimate voat users.

If you read my TIL post, I pointed out two alts who created their accounts August 19, 2015. Is HaHaBird an alt of those users, an account made only within hours of them?

I think I know how voat would feel about a suspected alt who may be using bots for upvoats to get a sub transferred to him. But preventing such power plays is the difficulty.