Lost And Founding
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Ex-senior eng who traded debugging production for debugging life choices. Building digital businesses & writing about it.
Running on coffee and stubborn optimism
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Approach I'm referencing is here...
roadtolarissa.com/d3-mp4/
roadtolarissa.com/d3-mp4/
January 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Approach I'm referencing is here...
roadtolarissa.com/d3-mp4/
roadtolarissa.com/d3-mp4/
6/6 Bottom line, I think something like a Bot Score would really help here. Similar to how @XEng has added the "Probably Spam" to replies, it would be good to have a "Probable Bot" or "Bot Rating: High" or something so that we could define our own thresholds for removing them
January 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
6/6 Bottom line, I think something like a Bot Score would really help here. Similar to how @XEng has added the "Probably Spam" to replies, it would be good to have a "Probable Bot" or "Bot Rating: High" or something so that we could define our own thresholds for removing them
5/6 Lastly, I dealt with the impersonator type bots i.e. those who had taken a real account and varied the username by a few characters.
These are harder to automate and, clearly, they do dupe a lot more people as they had a large number of followers in some cases.
These are harder to automate and, clearly, they do dupe a lot more people as they had a large number of followers in some cases.
January 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
5/6 Lastly, I dealt with the impersonator type bots i.e. those who had taken a real account and varied the username by a few characters.
These are harder to automate and, clearly, they do dupe a lot more people as they had a large number of followers in some cases.
These are harder to automate and, clearly, they do dupe a lot more people as they had a large number of followers in some cases.
4/6 If they weren't already filtered by the above, I just looked at anyone with a female profile pic and a lack of Posts/Replies. That found a bunch more.
There is definitely something in common with these PFPs. I can't articulate it but I'm sure a simple ML classifier could do it.
There is definitely something in common with these PFPs. I can't articulate it but I'm sure a simple ML classifier could do it.
January 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
4/6 If they weren't already filtered by the above, I just looked at anyone with a female profile pic and a lack of Posts/Replies. That found a bunch more.
There is definitely something in common with these PFPs. I can't articulate it but I'm sure a simple ML classifier could do it.
There is definitely something in common with these PFPs. I can't articulate it but I'm sure a simple ML classifier could do it.
3/6 If I then go a bit deeper, and look at accounts with a Following:Follower ratio of about 50:1 without a single Post or Reply on their account, I'd have caught another ~25%
January 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
3/6 If I then go a bit deeper, and look at accounts with a Following:Follower ratio of about 50:1 without a single Post or Reply on their account, I'd have caught another ~25%
2/6 For example, by just looking at the usernames e.g. "bO9yMtn63I4Y8kA" and filtering all those with a high percentage of digits, I catch about 50% of cases straight away.
January 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
2/6 For example, by just looking at the usernames e.g. "bO9yMtn63I4Y8kA" and filtering all those with a high percentage of digits, I catch about 50% of cases straight away.
I’m gonna say 7. Big margin of error here though. More in winter. Less in summer.
December 1, 2024 at 6:10 PM
I’m gonna say 7. Big margin of error here though. More in winter. Less in summer.
Not 100% sure but I measure my consumption in handfuls if that’s any indicator.
December 1, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Not 100% sure but I measure my consumption in handfuls if that’s any indicator.
Would love to be added if it’s still open.
November 30, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Would love to be added if it’s still open.