Patreon bot's are evolving~ (Patreon)
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Last year they were easy to spot as it was always pledging you and only you, had a name and surname and no avatar and popped usually in 24h after posting something.
Nowadays they still have no avatar, a name and surname and pop in 24h after posting something (it's $ pledge is always set to your last post, so the high $ bot bait tier do not work) but they also are "pledging" to 4 other creators plus you.
Honestly, the reason why I am salty because of this is:
a) the incompetent coding that allow's these bots to make accounts. The site is not poor, it makes a lot of cash chipping off every patron that pledges to every creator. From my own point it eat's 5,50$ of my monthly donations (that's 5 1$ tier patrons). You would think they would work on patching the scam mechanics before all of these "invite new creators to patreon" stuff to make this more user-friendly. Guess not, got to make the extra $$$ from more people, who cares about people dealing with fake pledges every week?
b) every time I go to my notifications I have a sticky panel with +/- pledges of the month, and of course it lists ALL the bots that I've deleted myself through this time. Giving the fact that I did post new stuff here at least 2 times a week currently the list grow's pretty long. If I delete someone myself, it SHOULD NOT be listed there through the whole damn month.