The Russians did it indeed

[Klaus]

While working on setting up the forum again, I noticed that we got quite a few obviously fake/bot registrations, most of which use Russian email addresses:

I wonder what that is about.

[Mik]

I think most sites get those. One of my charities had a website and that's really all we ever got. I shut it down.

[Klaus]

I wonder, though, what's in it for those who start these kinds of bots.

[George K]

Can someone explain to me how, exactly, these bots work?

(type slowly, so I get it, please)

Let's say there's something controversial on twitter or youtube. If someone wants to "release the kraken bots," how does that happen?

[Horace]

In Russia, bots profit off of you.

[Klaus]

@George-K said in The Russians did it indeed:

Can someone explain to me how, exactly, these bots work?

(type slowly, so I get it, please)

Let's say there's something controversial on twitter or youtube. If someone wants to "release the kraken bots," how does that happen?

I can see how that works on Twitter. You just instruct your army of bots to leave comments/likes of the kind you want to see.

But I don't understand the point of registering to this forum. These bots never post anything. They don't even validate their email.

However, one lesson we can draw from this:

We should assume that everybody who posts in this forum whom you haven't ever seen in the flesh is a bot

[brenda]

Bots don't post frog pics or freshly baked bread pics. They also don't spell Minnesoooooota with enough o's.

[Doctor Phibes]

What does it mean to be in a substrate?

[Axtremus]

@brenda said in The Russians did it indeed:

Bots don't post frog pics or freshly baked bread pics. They also don't spell Minnesoooooota with enough o's.

Maybe @brenda is a bot of Hobart’s?