Jack Preston King
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

Ev Williams, Medium, Medium Staff, Your Friends @ Medium all need to come and read this post. Medium has been suffering a massive bot invasion since at least January.

My question, Amy, on behalf of Medium (may they read your reply and act on it), is this. You give advice here for individuals to ignore or block identifiable bots (which make up probably 80% of everyone’s following on Medium anymore). But is there anything a platform like Medium can do on a large scale to purge the whole platform of bots in one fell swoop? Is there any way to protect a purged platform from future invasion?

Thanks for this.

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