# Please Stop this!
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440
**Category:** Off Topic
**Created:** [June 18, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440 "2019-06-18T15:43:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/1 "2019-06-18T15:43:24Z")
Hello Everyone!
Kartik here.
It’s my request to all the people who are unnecessarily linking any of my posts.
Please stop…
Have a look :
These are all Newbies.
I am not liking this. I didn’t do anything this great.
In a few weeks, my likes on posts increased from 450 to ~1.6k
I am worthy of only ~450 likes. Those are my earned.
Please help.
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### Author:  [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/2 "2019-06-18T15:45:25Z")
@domhnallohanlon , @jane, @Conor,
Please help…
This is serious.
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### Author:  [@Red\_Panda](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Red_Panda)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/3 "2019-06-18T16:34:04Z")
I would be happy to receive a lot of likes, but the usernames and the number of likes look intriguing. I assume someone tried to exploit the Discourse system by auto-generating accounts and giving likes to collect badges and to climb trust levels.
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### Author:  [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/4 "2019-06-18T16:42:58Z")
hmmm
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### Author:  [@CBVG](https://community.thunkable.com/u/CBVG)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/5 "2019-06-18T18:12:19Z")
Seems that some people are only interested in those “badges”.
And given the “names” of those account, can they be essentially spambots and duplicate accounts?
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### Author:  [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/6 "2019-06-18T18:27:49Z")
Can be…
I first thought this only…
The **Out of Love** badge I think…
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### Author:  [@samclever](https://community.thunkable.com/u/samclever)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/7 "2019-06-19T00:52:23Z")
Maybe the Thunkable Staff should do an audit and remove these spam accounts.
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### Author:  [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/8 "2019-06-19T11:11:49Z")
Still going on…
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### Author:  [@jane](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jane)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/9 "2019-06-19T11:30:07Z")
Hi Kartik,
We have seen a few suspicious accounts like this before, but several accounts concentrating their attention on one user is a new one, I think!
Thanks for making this post, we’ll look into these accounts now.
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/10 "2019-06-19T12:32:03Z")
Hi @kartik_old - apologies for the hassle with this, but thank you for your prompt reporting.
I’ve added a few “speed bumps” that should slow down this type of behaviour so hopefully you won’t be bothered by this again but please report it if you notice anything strange or unusual like this again in the future.
We want everyone in the community to have a safe and positive experience and take any sort of anti-social behaviour very seriously.
That being said, we’re growing a lot at the moment (just passed 75,000 community members last week) so it’s possible that there might be 1 or 2 bad actors amongst us.
I’d encourage everyone to be vigilant and to report and flag posts that violate any of the community guidelines.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/11 "2019-06-19T12:35:38Z")
> [@domhnallohanlon](#):
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> apologies for the hassle with this
Oh! It’s not your fault!
Thanks for the change.
Can you make this whole topic a little noticable - like pinnig
coz everyone can report here against bad actors…
Thank you Everyone! 😉
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### Author:  [@Barreeeiroo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/12 "2019-06-19T12:47:17Z")
@domhnallohanlon I believe this is being made by bots
Might be there any issue in the new SSO system that doesn’t verify accounts/allows creating accounts automatically?
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### Author:  [@BlueWhaleYT](https://community.thunkable.com/u/BlueWhaleYT)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/13 "2019-07-09T14:01:55Z")
I am wondering. Why are those user related to you only?
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### Author:  [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/14 "2019-07-09T14:41:59Z")
😕
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### Author:  [@eoinparkinson](https://community.thunkable.com/u/eoinparkinson)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/15 "2019-07-09T16:50:17Z")
Wouldn’t a simple [Captcha](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html) stop bots? Is that not a thing?
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### Author:  [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/16 "2019-07-10T02:55:39Z")
Yes!
It will indeed!
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/17 "2019-07-10T11:35:10Z")
It wasn’t bots, but we took a number of steps last week to curb this sort of behaviour.
We take the welfare of our community members very seriously and acted quickly here to counteract this, initially by removing the offending accounts and then by making it harder for spammers to make accounts in the first place.
If anyone else has issues like this in the future, please feel free to reach out directly via PM and we will look into it ASAP.
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### Author:  [@eoinparkinson](https://community.thunkable.com/u/eoinparkinson)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/18 "2019-07-10T11:56:03Z")
Lavely
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### Author:  [@thingletali1970hv2](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thingletali1970hv2)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/19 "2020-04-22T10:28:37Z")
It is my first post there
welcome me!
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/please-stop-this/111440/20 "2024-11-08T11:38:48Z")