Flickr Spam from your bot

shundhammer commented 7 years ago

Earlier today, I received this mail from Flickr about activity on my Flickr pages:

Here's the most recent activity related to you.

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* 20170506-1543-p1020316
  http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0179006/photos/huha/34349436552/
  50 views | 1 comment | 0 favorites

    * baudata said: sulkies       

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* 20170610-1730-dsc_3259
  http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0172006/photos/huha/34973486610/
  16 views | 1 comment | 0 favorites

    * baudata said: boughten       

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* 20170610-1602-dsc_3188
  http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0173006/photos/huha/35194185952/
  9 views | 1 comment | 0 favorites

    * baudata said: brinish       

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* 20170610-1825-dsc_3306
  http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0171006/photos/huha/35230769771/
  11 views | 1 comment | 0 favorites

    * baudata said: haywire       

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If you want to program a bot to recognize sceneries and do fancy image processing, okay.

If you resort to publicly available photos to do that - okay with me as long as it's okay with Flickr to use their infrastructure to do that.

What is not okay is to spam other people's social media account with bullshit that isn't even proper human language. This "comment" facility is meant for humans to exchange opinions about the images, not for fucking bots to flood it with nonsensical bullshit!

I just blocked this bot account of yours on my Flickr pages. Please be advised that I will take drastic steps if this happens again anytime soon.

shundhammer commented 7 years ago

Please notice that I also notified the Flickr staff about this.

shundhammer commented 7 years ago

I thought you would't even bother to check your GitHub account for open issues. That shows how much of a professional you are.

shundhammer commented 3 years ago

Almost 4 years later, and still no reaction.

BauData / bot

Flickr Spam from your bot #1