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yes.

I'm not sure about all of the details; I'm sure there are a variety of indicators that go into spam score and once you tip the spam threshold you're banned. So I would guess that students on a school network do things well enough to stay safe, but if you have 1,000 bot accounts on the same IP it's just a matter of time before they're all gone.

So if you want to manage a network of fake accounts I try to use a proxy IP or VPN to connect to each account every time you connect to/with it. (Also clear cookies/cache, spoof the same device, etc.) I'm sure better programmers could work around this by compensating in other ways, but I'm not sure how.




OK. I guess you could spoof your IPs in the bot program if you don't care about seeing the reply, which for this application you probably don't.


that isn't exactly how IP spoofing works: i'd argue for the most part, ip spoofing is just a DDoS hassle. Its not very useful on a real service you intend to interact with (tcp/https require you to reply to those ip packets - it's not a fire and forget).


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