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Dzmitry Tsemirau

Are they bots or not?

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I noticed that among my followers there are many accounts that look like bots. They all have a typical about section like "Hi, I'm John, I'm 30 years old, I do blah blah blah. Each has a couple of followers, is subscribed to 5 - 10 people, and has no other activity. Are these bots? If I subscribe to them does it harm my account? Why do they do it?

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Pam K.
Yes. Helps it look like it's busy? Upvotes? Many discussion threads have AI-generated comments by these types of accounts - SEO? Note the question marks.
Dzmitry Tsemirau
@silisolutionist The fact of the matter is that they have very few comments and points, as well as the people they follow.
Artyom Sviridov
These are definitely bots. I don't know why there are so many of them here, but this is really a huge problem on PH.
Ed SK
They want to appear legit so they can upvote people who actually pay for their services.
Chris Lindner
I guess some of them are just here to take a look: create an account and quickly write a standardized profile. Lost interest and disappeared. If you are active and helpful in the community, I don't think such accounts will have some negative impact on you. After all, PH should deal with them but not honest users:)