Joined 1 year ago
1. Fork to stars ratio. I've noticed that several of the "bot" repos have the same number of forks as stars (or rather, most ratios are above 0.5). Typically a project doesn't have nearly as many forks as stars.
2. Fake repo owners clone real projects and push them directly to their account (not fork) and impersonate the real project to try and make their account look real.
Example bot account with both strategies employed: https://github.com/algariis
1. Fork to stars ratio. I've noticed that several of the "bot" repos have the same number of forks as stars (or rather, most ratios are above 0.5). Typically a project doesn't have nearly as many forks as stars.
2. Fake repo owners clone real projects and push them directly to their account (not fork) and impersonate the real project to try and make their account look real.
Example bot account with both strategies employed: https://github.com/algariis