Profile Labeller: I've changed 'High Volume' to be a periodic measure - I'm trying to flag bot accounts that post to a very set interval, not to identify people who post a lot.

New labels! No avatar/display name labels have gone in, and the new account/new handle logic is now more robust. The new labels default to *off*. They're hide/block labels and I don't want to default block brand new users until onboarding is better - but they're definitely gonna be useful to some.

I've changed 'High Volume' to be a periodic measure - I'm trying to flag bot accounts that post to a very set interval, not to identify people who post a lot.

Maybe you need some kind of fourier analysis lol

I'm not great at stats but this might be a viable algorithm docs.astropy.org/en/stable/ti...

Lomb-Scargle Periodograms — Astropy v6.1.0docs.astropy.org

(also wow that's a great name for an algorithm)

that is very cool, but... I'm just using a standard deviation across the last ~100 posts and if it's smaller than 3s I'm screaming BOT

I guess that works most of the time, but might miss bots that combine regular posting with "breaking news" or other one-off announcements

yeah - I'm mostly trying to catch the really egregious ones like the 'x every hour' accounts I was doing it to filter what I needed to process, but figure it was something I could also label (and also that I don't need to filter cause rate limits go brrr)

I know this comment is 13 days old but... damn. You're right that's a great name for an algorithm.

flagbot ?! that's the teammates!

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