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Protocol for dealing with fake accounts?
So I bumped in to this person on my travels and their activity was instantly suspicious, that was before I noticed that both accounts had similar names. Either-way it piqued my suspicion enough to think that they were probably the same person. I checked the history and all their posts seem to just exist for the other account to answer to boost their stats.
Normally I wouldn't care but it does just add needless noise to the environment making is more difficult for other people to be heard.
Answer by Owen-Reynolds · Jan 03, 2021 at 12:35 AM
Both accounts are from early November. If they were trying to scam points they'd be a lot higher than they are now. Maybe two friends, or one person accidentally made two accounts. And, I hate to say this, UA is pretty much running to failure as it is. For example, you've gotten 1 reply after a day. They can't do too much damage.
Answer by NorthStar79 · Jan 03, 2021 at 04:16 PM
I did take my time and walked through both accounts, it looks like he asked a question first, then he found the solution and answered his own question for anyone else who searching the same question, but while doing that he accidentally created different accounts. if he had a sinful purpose for doing it, he would not use similar usernames on both accounts.
The 1st time I used UA you could post anonymously, which seemed fine to me. But the system actually made a 1-time account behind the scenes. When I finally made a real account it told me and suggested I reclaim them. That partly succeeded. Then someone accused me of doing that to pad my percentages (by only clai$$anonymous$$g the ones with upvotes, I think?) I never heard anything else about it.