Checking the weekly charts, seeing something weird:
Well, this is me, privately alone playing with AI instant music generator. For now.
I guess this was inevitable, but having the charts filled with thousands of listens by what I assume are from bots isnāt exactly kosher.
I mentioned this 15 days ago (The fishiness of ListenBrainz) and has been happening since (at least) then.
Use the āreportā button on the user page, and issues like this will be looked into properly 
All is fine on the musicbrainz side (except that this āartistā has no recordings insertedā¦)
Although if you look at the actual user, you can see that those are LastFM listens. They might have set the sync and flooded Lastfm where this is less noticeable (or maybe unregulated too, IDK), and we suffer the consequences.
ā¦ Is what I would have said, if I didnāt found out about this puppet account. No info about the origin of the listens, so itās harder to justify that itās just someone from lastfm being lost.
I might try to add some releases to see if there isnāt other accounts botting listens more stealthily (and AI music is is still music, and need to be inserted into MB anyway)
although annoying, this is kinda interesting and I wonder if this device is one of a farm which artificially inflates plays on streaming services.
Certainly when you look at ListenBrainz 's listens they are coming via some kind of Last.FM scrobbler
Iāve reported this user and also the shadow account ListenBrainz
Iāll be doing the same with those that appear 100% (and listening history confirms it) on ListenBrainz.
I blame these users for all the junk music I get recommended.
This account and the shadow account have been deleted. In the future weāll add the ability for pause someoneās account for more fine grained control over these situations:
This seems to be happening again. Iām not sure how to find the user submitting these listens or even the listens themselves though.
EDIT: This is on the weekly global charts.
And they are back at it again! I donāt want to assume malice but redoing it after getting banned?
Sadly itās hard to find listeners of unlinked tracks
Even bans donāt work these days.
Heās probably using a VPN and triple proxy.
Itās certainly malice, they even got a mail warning Will ban them again as soon as I figure out the account, sigh.
BTW, is there a way for us lowly users to figure out the accounts behind them? I know I could just add the recording and wait for it to match, but thatās slow.
Would make it easier to report instead of appending to the thread
We identified the accounts and will ban them ASAP!
You could grab the listenbrainz-listens-dump and search it.
Just reported three of them
