Some users seem to abuse booster for bot reputation boosting/bot testing

[Michael Dondrup]

I have seen some accounts like this one:

https://www.biostars.org/u/12459/
I have suspended this account.

The last deleted post combined the exact headline of an earlier post with some unrelated gibberish. After closing, the
user(?) has deleted the post.

I think there were two more chinese accounts posting suspicious "test you can ignore" posts to vote each other up.

Michael

[Michael Dondrup]

The account's first post is an identical copy of an older biostar post with some reformatting.

[Michael Dondrup]

suspended:
https://www.biostars.org/u/12452/
https://www.biostars.org/u/12450/

[Istvan Albert]

I saw those too, I do agree that they very much appear to be bots that anwers each other's posts.

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Istvan Albert
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics
Pennsylvania State University
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