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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 05/05/2019 21:19
- Post subject: Spam Users
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If you look at a bunch of new users' profiles, you'll find they are all rating the same albums 100/100, with no other activity to speak of. I'm referring to all the new usernames that are variations on the word daddy or the n word, as well as some other new usernames such as Boobs and Acdc.
It appears to be a single very immature fan of AC/DC and Judas Priest. _________________ Add me on RYM
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Hayden
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- #3
- Posted: 05/05/2019 23:09
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I think these are all of them in one screenshot. _________________ Add me on RYM
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albummaster
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Gender: Male
Location: Spain
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- #4
- Posted: 05/06/2019 07:21
- Post subject: Re: Spam Users
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baystateoftheart wrote: | If you look at a bunch of new users' profiles, you'll find they are all rating the same albums 100/100, with no other activity to speak of. I'm referring to all the new usernames that are variations on the word daddy or the n word, as well as some other new usernames such as Boobs and Acdc.
It appears to be a single very immature fan of AC/DC and Judas Priest. |
Thanks for reporting. The accounts in your screenshot have now been banned (plus a couple more).
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- #5
- Posted: 08/22/2019 02:30
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An album with very suspicious activity:
The Last Love Song by Andy Hackbarth
Can't find any buzz about it anywhere (no news articles, reviews, Wikipedia page, or RYM page; Bandcamp page has no supporters), but it's the 17th top-rated album of the 2010s on BEA, thanks to a couple clusters of activity from what appear to be burner accounts from one person.
Here's another (somewhat less obscure) album the same accounts have boosted to a very high rating:
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau by Chris...ad Mehldau
Based on the patterns, I'd wager they're sock puppet accounts of pjohnsongolf. _________________ Add me on RYM
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
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- #6
- Posted: 08/22/2019 03:11
- Post subject: Re: Spam Users
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baystateoftheart wrote: | It appears to be a single very immature fan of AC/DC and Judas Priest. |
Are there mature fans of those groups... ok that was a low blow, but yeah...
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Hayden
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- Posted: 08/22/2019 03:25
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baystateoftheart wrote: | An album with very suspicious activity:
The Last Love Song by Andy Hackbarth
Can't find any buzz about it anywhere (no news articles, reviews, Wikipedia page, or RYM page; Bandcamp page has no supporters), but it's the 17th top-rated album of the 2010s on BEA, thanks to a couple clusters of activity from what appear to be burner accounts from one person.
Here's another (somewhat less obscure) album the same accounts have boosted to a very high rating:
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau by Chris...ad Mehldau
Based on the patterns, I'd wager they're sock puppet accounts of pjohnsongolf. |
First album's fishy, but the second is a noted release. Brad Mehldau's fairly well known. Might be some odd spam votes on it, but the first album seems to be 100% _________________ Submit Your List for BEA's 2023 Film Poll!
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 08/22/2019 03:30
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Hayden wrote: | baystateoftheart wrote: | An album with very suspicious activity:
The Last Love Song by Andy Hackbarth
Can't find any buzz about it anywhere (no news articles, reviews, Wikipedia page, or RYM page; Bandcamp page has no supporters), but it's the 17th top-rated album of the 2010s on BEA, thanks to a couple clusters of activity from what appear to be burner accounts from one person.
Here's another (somewhat less obscure) album the same accounts have boosted to a very high rating:
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau by Chris...ad Mehldau
Based on the patterns, I'd wager they're sock puppet accounts of pjohnsongolf. |
First album's fishy, but the second is a noted release. Brad Mehldau's fairly well known. Might be some odd spam votes on it, but the first album seems to be 100% |
I didn't say the second album was not notable. It's the patterns of activity that are fishy. Comparing the activity on the two albums is evidence that the accounts I'm talking about have the same behavior. _________________ Add me on RYM
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albummaster
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Location: Spain
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- #9
- Posted: 08/22/2019 08:55
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Thanks for reporting. This will be investigated.
EDIT: Identified/banned four accounts.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- #10
- Posted: 08/23/2019 02:30
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albummaster wrote: | Thanks for reporting. This will be investigated.
EDIT: Identified/banned four accounts. |
Thanks AM. I think that covers one of the two spam clusters. The other being the following five users with extremely similar account activity, all active rating and charting these two albums within a week:
mandysj21
waves
ren
Miller58
claudzilla _________________ Add me on RYM
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