Re: Re: All your Votebots are belong to us

[lemming]

Hmmm. I think the biggest abuse by votebots are targeting specific users though the behaviour you mention could trigger a false positive. Not knowing how fearless leader is monitoring the situation, I'm not sure.

update: jepri: yes

[John M. Dlugosz]

False positive? You mean someone using non-mechanical means to frivilously spend votes could make vroom think it's a votebot?

I don't know. How often do you read a thread, then click on a bunch of (presumably worthy) nodes and hit VOTE? This submits the whole thread in one form, and is typical behavior.

—John

[jepri]

And I doubt that we will ever know the search criteria. Which is good, because Perl is flexible enough to beat almost any search criterium.

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Jeremy
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[tadman]

A dead giveaway: UserAgent: VoteBot/1.0 (UNIX; Perl 5.6.1)