Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[TheLoveJenovan]

Some people have wondered whether bots have become worse recently. They have.

Here is a histogram showing the age of FC Market bots. Most of the ones we've found are ~50-200 days old (2-6 mos).

We've only scratched the surface in finding bots. Feel free to help us on discord (https://discord.gg/G6YnKdQ) to find them all!

[Darkmoonrise]

Some people have wondered whether bots have become worse recently. They have.

Here is a histogram showing the age of FC Market bots. Most of the ones we've found are ~50-200 days old (2-6 mos).

We've only scratched the surface in finding bots. Feel free to help us on discord (https://discord.gg/G6YnKdQ) to find them all!

I like what you do, I think it's important work and thank you for doing it.

But this graph can also be interpreted this way : "Old bots are being banned and the people behind them are creating new one. Only a part of them pass through the net and stays active for long period of time"

[Nixxe]

Some people have wondered whether bots have become worse recently. They have.

Here is a histogram showing the age of FC Market bots. Most of the ones we've found are ~50-200 days old (2-6 mos).

We've only scratched the surface in finding bots. Feel free to help us on discord (https://discord.gg/G6YnKdQ) to find them all!

This data doesn't show botting has gotten worse recently. It shows a cluster of younger bot accounts (assuming you've accurately identified them to begin with), which conforms to the expectations everyone should have given that the more a bot is used and the older it gets, the more probable it is that it gets that SE takes action against it. This will naturally lead to a skew right distribution. You would need a reliable way to determine the population of bots at a given moment and track changes in that data over time to show that botting has gotten worse recently.