Automatic Likes

[Kurt_Bremser]

@ChrisHemedinger @ShelleySessoms 

There is a user (gbatista) who issues likes to posts immediately upon posting without even being online. Can you please dig into this?

[Ksharp]

Me too !

[PaigeMiller]

Me three!

[Tom]

There is a button in the email notification for generating likes.

They are probably using that.

Try it with the email you should get from this post and see if it generates a like.

[ChrisHemedinger]

I do suspect it is triggered by the email button. However, it might not be intentional. Looking at their "like" actions it's not as many as I would think if it was an automatic email action. If it gets out of hand we'll see if there is an action to take.

[SASKiwi]

Looks like it only happens for posts in the Programming - SAS Programming Community.

[Tom]

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@ChrisHemedinger wrote:

I do suspect it is triggered by the email button. However, it might not be intentional. Looking at their "like" actions it's not as many as I would think if it was an automatic email action. If it gets out of hand we'll see if there is an action to take.

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So I clicked the LIKE button in the email and it did indeed bump the LIKE count.

It also opened the page in EDGE browser without actually logging me into the site. I had to login to start making this reply.

So that should explain how someone can like posts without actually logging onto the site.

[Kurt_Bremser]

It must be some kind of automatism, I just received a lightning-quick like (see here) that simply cannot be the result of someone receiving mail and clicking "Like" there.

[Tom]

There must be some type of follow option in the forum software that is triggering these automatic likes.

[ChrisHemedinger]

We've seen this before -- it's rare, but somehow for a few people there's something that triggers the "like". When I've looked into it with other affected users, it's not intentional or anything the member is doing to cause it directly. For this one user I've removed the ability to give "likes" so we'll see how that plays out.

[SASKiwi]

The gbatista likes are still happening for me.

[FreelanceReinh]

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@ChrisHemedinger wrote:

For this one user I've removed the ability to give "likes" so we'll see how that plays out.

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Yet, about 150 new likes have piled up since then. And more evidence that at least not all of them make sense.

[ChrisHemedinger]

[PaigeMiller]

Today, the same problem appears, getting apparent automatic likes from @Jen_Robertson 

[ChrisHemedinger]

My theory (yet to be proven) is that something in the email notifications is triggering this (since you can "Like" a message from a link in the email). I've removed that button from the email notices...for now. We'll see if this addresses it.