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It brings me no pleasure to point out that we have massive rings of engagement farming, grifting and outright fraud on this app

A lot of people here are motivated to make a few dollars, and that is totally fine. When you lie to do so or put together rings of engagement to manipulate the leaderboard it’s definitely not ok

Please be vigilant, I’ve found a few recent mutuals to be sketchy at best and most likely bad actors. The onus is on all of us to protect this app, otherwise we’ll be overrun with spam garbage in short order

Fuck it the people want a sacrificial lamb and that’s what they’ll get. I’d say with a high probability that @willisrules is engaging in some kind of engagement farming. A bunch of empty, lukewarm “takes” with nearly as many likes + comments as they have followers

Since so many grifters love to play the QC game, QC this with someone you think has a high probability of being a bad actor

yep, this one caught my eye today as well.

also worth noting that the engagement is very odd, not a single account on FC gets 1:2 comment:like ratio unless some huge announcement or similar. clearly not organic.

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Struck me as eeriely similar too, even down to having rules in the name

basically running the jimmy playbook. reminds me a lot of his casts. in fact, the strategy is so similar that I wouldn’t be surprised if they are the same person or somehow connected.

Yep, I made this same point in a couple of replies. Hopefully there’s some way to find red flags like that to improve the algo 

Not only are they farming the leaderboard but their casts are frequently being shared as suggested on my tl