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Discussion on: Is dev.to pulling a reddit?

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Ben Halpern

This should address the issue:

dev.to/ben/changelog-suggested-fol...

If you suspect an account is a fake you can report it. But we don't necessarily see an empty GitHub account as overly suspicious, as a lot of folks just don't do any OSS development. We have other cues to detect spam accounts.

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Vincenzo

it is just really weird.
why would 2-3 people with empty profile and empty github follow me every day?

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Julian Vickers • Edited

I know in my case (I joined yesterday, so my profile is still empty and I have an empty Github) dev.io led me to follow certain accounts in response to interests I said I had, and you were one of the suggested follows. Not sure if that accounts for them all, but data point of one here...