Watch bots
It seems to be the new popular thing on deviantart. Some people have started using bot scripts on their deviantart accounts. You might know of this already.
The bots will consistently start watching random people every few seconds. You'll recognize them for these attributes:
-Having way more pageviews, llamas and donated points than most people who have been on deviantart the same ammount of time or longer.
-Having lots of "Thanks for the watch" comments, one every few seconds.
-Hiding all their stats from people.
The people who run these bots can gain several thousand donated points in a span of days, which they can use to buy whatever they want. They are abusing stupid people who don't know better than to give a few points to strangers, which is not much better than stealing. What's worse is that the deviantart staff does not see this as rule-breaking.
Things you can do
Check out this group.
Make sure to check out every person who watches you. If they seem to be a bot, check the
#anti-Bots list. If the name you saw isn't there, go inform them about it.
Inform other people about bots to prevent them from giving valuable points to them. The more people know about them, the better.
Block all the bots that watch you. It's not very helpful, but your number of watches will be closer to the real value.
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on a minor note a have a scanner that i can use, it is just being problematic for now BUT IT WILL BE RESOLVED!