[jashmenn]

We have to be careful about botshaming people who have too many fake followers: it's pretty easy to buy your enemy a bunch of fake followers just to discredit them.

Fun story, years ago in my office, before buying followers was well known, folks would prank each other by buying fake followers for our co-workers. They'd wake up and be so happy and surprised and then have to spend the weekend manually blocking each one.

At the time it seemed pretty harmless, but now it is definitely a threat to someone's credibility.

[orionblastar]

Also fake SEO stuff like make an illegal web farm copied from your competitor's site and use a spambot to post their URL everywhere so Google penalizes then in web rank.

I was on Uncyclopedia when someone did that to get them removed from Google.