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RE: luckyluke.rb - Voting Bot Update

in #ruby7 years ago

In many voting projects, developers try to distinguish the bots from legal users. They may use the strategy talked about below, and the votebots try to bypass their barriers or detecting methods to successfully vote at the website. For example, some websites restrict the number of votes one IP address can make in a time period. Votebots can bypass this rule by proxy its IP address frequently to cheat the website. Another frequently used strategy is to analyze the account created by a votebot to tell any difference from the normal accounts created by human beings, or to analyze the action history of accounts in the system to find out potential votebots creating ones. Votebots, on the other hand, try to simulate human action such as logging in and out as well as sharing some articles in some social network service before voting.