Fake viewer bots on Chaturbate are back

[hidden_evelina]

Just so everyone knows, the fake viewer bots on Chaturbate are back and CB system that previously banned them instantly doesn't seem to work any more.

So if you are wondering why in the past two weeks it takes you forever to reach your average position on CBhrs or your room suddenly became empty here's why.

In the past couple of days I found a few models (I'm sure there are many more) that are again using the fake viewer bots and one of them with a handful of colors gets even 5000 viewers in about 1 hour after starting her broadcast (previously highest page 5 according to CBhrs and average 150 viewers). So be prepare for more of these scammers to come if CB team doesn't do anything about them.

@punkerbarbie can you report this issue to the tech team so they improve their system to detect scam please?

 

[jjay543]

Just so everyone knows, the fake viewer bots on Chaturbate are back and CB system that previously banned them instantly doesn't seem to work any more.

So if you are wondering why in the past two weeks it takes you forever to reach your average position on CBhrs or your room suddenly became empty here's why.

In the past couple of days I found a few models (I'm sure there are many more) that are again using the fake viewer bots and one of them with a handful of colors gets even 5000 viewers in about 1 hour after starting her broadcast (previously highest page 5 according to CBhrs and average 150 viewers). So be prepare for more of these scammers to come if CB team doesn't do anything about them.

@punkerbarbie can you report this issue to the tech team so they improve their system to detect scam please?

A friend saw this in a forum she belongs to. A response from CB...

 

[jjay543]

But yes, it seems illegal boosts are rampant. I've asked CB what they are doing about this and their response is always the automated "we will investigate this"

 

[hidden_evelina]

A friend saw this in a forum she belongs to. A response from CB...
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Anonymous viewers aren't viewer bots and they don't influence the ranking.

In my opinion and based on my own experience, the reason why some cheating models have 10k+ viewers while now at the bottom of page 1, on page 2 and lower is because they tried to trick the algorithm with 300-400 invisible users. After they reach a certain point or become one of the top ~ 20 biggest rooms on the whole site with those bots they get high numbers of anonymous viewers added to their rooms in result. These anons do nothing. Next CB system detects those fake viewers and instantly kick the model back down to their real position and the number of those anons gradually decrease in their room. Looks like they don't ban those invisible viewers but just ignore them as CBhrs page still includes them in their ranking.

CB ranking finally working correctly again like it was in early December. Genuine models should now see more viewers their rooms. If anything changes I'll make another post.

 

[cbhours]

A friend saw this in a forum she belongs to. A response from CB...
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That's already posted earlier in the thread however reading it a second time I realized they said "of views that were always being brought to the site" if they actually made it to the site how could they have not been counted before? So confusing.

Looks like they don't ban those invisible viewers but just ignore them as CBhrs page still includes them in their ranking.

Cbhours displays their real ranking because the API is not impacted by the Chaturbate recommendation system. So if the model isn't recommended to you they would appear further down in the list than what Cbhours reflects since there are so many recommended slots that would technically push back models that aren't recommended to the specific viewer.