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neitsuke

Huge nutcase botting his own view count over FurAffinity

Just hours ago I noticed some dude on FA spamming Discord server ads for like, 10 hours, every hour always the same time. However just now I noticed even more about the guy you guys have to see for yourself :

This account is pretty much ran by a bot. This account is faving/unfaving the same person's submissions constantly, like 20 times a second. This other person, Xenoyia, is pretty much for certain the guy who made the bot account. He's basically botting himself to increase his view count. Just go to his bot account, look at the favs, then refresh the page, you'll see that it fluctuates, very quickly.

Now look at his main account and look at all the shouts he gets and look at those people's profiles for the shouts, You'll see him posting a ton of comments to everyone he can saying how their art is so great. Pretty sure this is also botted.

Huge giveaway that he's botting if that wasn't obvious enough : Look at his huge pageview number. Now look at his most recent submission : 15 hours old, +12 000 VIEWS. The guy is only watched by 250 people by the way.

Holyfuk this guy's a huge nutcase. How the fuck was I the only one to notice that ?
I contacted the FA staff about all this. But you know, this is FA we're talking about. They ban people for posting underage content, content being a Kirby picture, a character who doesn't fit their definition of an underage character ; And completely ignore complaints about a harasser who ban evades despite giving proof. So let's get ready to get a reply from the staff about how this individual is clearly in the clear stating that there isn't enough evidence for this case

FA ticket history
11/04/18 01:42 am
Ticket opened, complained about the Discord server ad spam

11/04/18 08:46 am
Ticket changed from Spam to Acceptable Upload Policy Issues (lolol)

11/04/18 08:50 am
Added more info about recent findings about how the person is botting his main account with this ad spam account

11/04/18 16:55
The bot account removed all Discord ad spams from their gallery only leaving the main submission available. The favorites don't fluctuate anymore since 3 hours. Likely either saw my journal- Wait a moment, the account is actually suspended. That's, actually unexpected

His main account https://www.furaffinity.net/user/xenoyia shows a "Access Denied" page, everyone is shown this error page. Is FA actually doing something about it ?

11/04/18 18:55
The Xenoyia account is back working, not suspended or anything. The bot account is still suspended
His most recent submission is now a day old, close to 22 000 views. The view count is still being raised by about 1 view per second. This also goes for some other submissions but 80% of them seems to have been stopped being botted, for now

11/04/18 20:30
The main account is once again blocked with "Access Denied"

11/05/18 16:40
Main account is once again back, not suspended or anything. However the views for everything lowered drastically.
From what I can see, all submissions were set to 250 views (Waaaay too generous here FA c'mon) and Pageviews were set to 1000. Favorite count also dropped down
No dam clue why he had no disciplinary action, it's obvious the guy botted himself and not by someone else.

So here's the conclusion guys : You get banned for drawing Kirby despite the character not fitting their description of an underage character, but if you abuse the website using tons of bots to inflate your stats, no worries. If you get caught they'll just reset your stats using generous numbers

11/08/18 14:45
Got a ticket reply stating that they did take action. Kind of find those actions very light to be honest, as I stated just before. At least they did something when I expected them to do absolutely nothing at all. Well, case closed
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Added: 5 years, 4 months ago
 
Ainoko
5 years, 4 months ago
4.4 million pages views in less than 8 years with only 245 watchers, impossible. Filed a TT on both accounts
DownThePipes
5 years, 4 months ago
Christ some people have major issues
Ainoko
5 years, 4 months ago
4.41 million pageviews in under 8 years is fucking impossible
Jakepearl13
5 years, 4 months ago
Good god,man...
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