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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do actually identify bots? I know there is a box you can check to indicate a bot, but if that does not get checked is there a way to tell if the account gets used by bots?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Technically no. You have to do some analysis on the user account activity, if the always upvote one user or only post the same domain etc