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Jan 30, 2023 7:03 AM
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Wtf, a couple of days ago, Takina overtook Chisato in the number of favorites by + -300, she had almost 6000, now she has 5500. Where did such a huge number of favorites go in such a short period of time? 🗿
DassuuJan 30, 2023 7:59 AM
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Jan 30, 2023 7:37 AM
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Somebody call Sherlock. We must get to the bottom of this, immediately!
Jan 30, 2023 7:42 AM
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moved away to other characters.
Jan 30, 2023 7:44 AM
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a) Bot accounts (prob not, who would make an account for this anime at this season anyways?)
b) Some users completed the anime lately and faved her.
c) [Most possible] Some people remade their fav listing, since it's limited to 10 (20 to donators).
d) [Not sure] Bot accounts were faving Chisato and MAL decided to kill those accs, removing the favs afterwards.

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Jan 30, 2023 9:30 AM
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MAL regularly purges bot accounts that inflate favorite numbers for certain characters. I’m surprised that Takina was apparently being botted, but there are also more obvious cases like Itsuki from Quintessential Quintuplets and Ichigo from Darling in the Franxx.
Jan 30, 2023 9:54 AM
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Austin_Bale said:
MAL regularly purges bot accounts that inflate favorite numbers for certain characters.

They are bots programmed to do random tricks such as adding favourite character, manga, etc, upload a bio and a profile picture. The goal is to pass these accounts as legitimate so the anti-bots measurement don't detect them. Afterward they use these bots to manipulate the score of the database.

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ZedlinFeb 2, 2023 12:52 PM
Jan 30, 2023 10:00 AM
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Well even Chisato was inflated then because now she’s around 5.7 k
Jan 30, 2023 11:25 AM
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Fluffygreygrass said:
Well even Chisato was inflated then because now she’s around 5.7 k

Not necessarily. We got a bot cleansing last summer and Takina lost around 70% of her favorites, while Chisato was more or less unaffected. Until they do a thorough bot cleaning, we won’t know how many favorites Takina really has. I’m hoping it’s at least above 2k though.
Jan 30, 2023 9:06 PM
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I think bots are at it again
Jan 31, 2023 3:45 AM
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Bot accounts, this happened while it was airing aswell.

Somebody really hates Chisato xD
Feb 2, 2023 12:50 PM

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