{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/533","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/533/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/533/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/533/events","html_url":"https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/533","id":123259047,"number":533,"title":"More and more follower crawlers","user":{"login":"willemdh","id":6462991,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6462991?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh","html_url":"https://github.com/willemdh","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/willemdh/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"84b6eb"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/labels/spam","name":"spam","color":"d4c5f9"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-12-21T11:22:28Z","updated_at":"2016-01-01T18:31:38Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I've been noticing I had some followers who came and left again some days later. After doing some fast research why someone would do this, I found tools like these: https://github.com/imraazrally/GreedyGit \r\n\r\nWhich enable GitHub users to quickly start following a lot of users. They then wait for a few days and unfollow you again in the hope some of the x users the follow, follow them back. Ways to counter this: Only allow users to follow max 3-5 other users a day? Why would I want to follow 500 new users in one day... This messes up the GitHub experience imho.\r\n\r\nGrtz"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/comments/168327334","html_url":"https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/533#issuecomment-168327334","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/isaacs/github/issues/533","id":168327334,"user":{"login":"cirosantilli","id":1429315,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1429315?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli","html_url":"https://github.com/cirosantilli","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cirosantilli/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-01T18:31:38Z","updated_at":"2016-01-01T18:31:38Z","body":"+1 for thinking about it. There was also recently the star bot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517527\r\n\r\nSpam, oh hard to fight spam.\r\n\r\nI'd rather have a rule like: if I'm the n-th person followed / starred on a day, don't show a notification. It annoys me a lot to have action throttles like on Stack Overflow.\r\n\r\nOr go hardcore do some kind of google page rank evaluation of people and cut low ranks from notifications :-)"}}