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Since, everything done on behalf of your instance is logged, detecting if you
have a large number of bots, or invalid users isn’t that challenging. These
queries can be executed via docker exec -it, via remoting into the container,
via pg query tools, or via pgadmin. For listing all comments performed by users
on your instance (This includes comments made remotely): SELECT p.actor_id ,
p.name , c.content as comment FROM public.comment c JOIN public.person p on p.id
= c.creator_id WHERE p.local = 'true' AND p.admin = 'false' -- Exclude Admins ;
For listing all posts created, by users, from your instance- SELECT p.actor_id ,
c.name AS title , c.body as body FROM public.post c JOIN public.person p on p.id
= c.creator_id WHERE p.local = 'true' AND p.admin = 'false' -- Exclude Admins ;
Lastly, here is a query to identify users who consistently upvotes or downvotes
the same user over and over. SELECT p.id , p.name , p.actor_id , cr.name as
creator , count(1) FROM public.comment_like l JOIN public.comment c on c.id =
l.comment_id JOIN public.person p on p.id = l.person_id JOIN public.person cr on
cr.id = c.creator_id WHERE p.id != cr.id AND p.local = 'true' AND p.admin =
'false' -- Exclude Admins GROUP BY p.id, p.name, p.actor_id, cr.name ORDER BY
count(1) desc ; If- anyone has idea of other queries which can be created for
detecting suspicious activity, please LMK. Edit- added where clause to exclude
admins. If your admins are spambots, you have bigger issues to worry about.
( I didn’t cross-post, as I encourage comments to go all on one posting )
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