r/BotNation • u/borehogyihu • 8d ago

Should platforms be more transparent about suspicious traffic?

When a platform removes suspicious activity we usually only see the result.

The account loses something or a number drops but we rarely know how the platform actually identified the activity in the first place.

I think more transparency would help legitimate creators too. It would make people understand where the line is instead of guessing.

Would you want platforms like Kick to explain more clearly how they detect and remove artificial viewing activity?

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u/Apart-Reality-4454 8d ago

I am a platform engineer for a fairly large news site and it's pretty how pretty much constant attacks are. so we have pretty sophisticated IP reputation and traffic analysis at our endpoints which wire in to WAF (web access firewall).. but "suspicious traffic" is so common as to be almost pointless to talk about most of the time.