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RE: Hunting bots with Python (and love)
Good work! In my observation, there are two types of upvote bots - tied to certain authors at a certain time after post. And stalker bots which follow whales around. I'd love to see some analysis for who the most stalked whales are. :)
If you could see at what time after posting the upvotes come in, for bots it's always the same time. And if there are bots who upvote the moment after a whale does. And of course, the defining characteristic is the bots don't sleep. Although some might to regenerate Voting Power. Finally, some whales may be hiring curation teams that work round the clock.
How deep does the rabbit hole go? :)
A lot of great points. As for Voting Power I think they just vote consistently (every hour) but not a lot, in general. I think that way they maintain a good average and cover all hours. Maybe.
The smart bots certainly do that. There were some daft bots previously who would be hanging on with 2% voting power, but those are mostly gone now. @wang seems to be maintaining a 35% voting power, I guess playing a game of numbers.