Potential bot or otherwise fake accounts
https://www.audiotool.com/user/dhchdjndjdiw4658
https://www.audiotool.com/user/djfhfidjcj
https://www.audiotool.com/user/fjfjfbjfjf
https://www.audiotool.com/user/gddyffhf
https://www.audiotool.com/user/hdhdncbdnxn/
Reasoning
About 3 hours prior to this post is when all 5 of the above listed accounts were created. Then they favorited tracks that https://www.audiotool.com/user/james_fleck/ made and followed them. This activity is rather suspicious. They are either bot accounts, or they are manually created accounts for the sole purpose of artificial promotion. I was alerted by their presence when I received notifications of the first 4 of the above listed accounts favoriting one of my past open collabs https://www.audiotool.com/track/jszq765q0/ all within the same hour and with a very similar account naming scheme.
Note for all
Artificial promotion isn't okay. It's stupid, overly competitive, and may attract a kind of unwanted kind of attention you'll never anticipate. Me and certainly many others would consider it cheating. Audiotool is not a competitive application. There are competitions, but nothing requires you to actually win them. Official and unofficial competitions are just for fun and a good way to challenge artists. Popularity gets you listen counts which only bring you more popularity, but if you want real merits you're going to want to put effort in the quality of your tracks. Plus, once people find out that you artificially stimulated your popularity, you're going to look pretty pathetic.
Comments (1)
Well, as long as he doesn't leave his microcosm. He collaborates with himself, follows himself, and likes his own tracks. And he's the only one doing it. That somehow makes me sad. I'm going for a walk in the autumn rain.