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No, there were plenty of spambots with no referrals. I was checking that, because I wondered if it might be what made some of them purgeproof.

And why would a spambot puppetmaster refer his bots on purpose, thus leaving a trail of evidence?

When you sign up you can say who referred you, so I would guess the spambots simply picked a user more or less at random. Maybe to make the forum consider them more of a legitimate member.

That could be possible, but don't you need someone to send you a link and refer you to the forum in order to be considered "Referred" by them? Or do you just type any random user's name and it just works?

In addition to that, i need to note that some bots also referred other bots(Key example being the guruji bot refering to astr024... i think), the purpose of this is still ambiguous to me. Why would a spam bot refer to another spam bot, wouldn't that also be a major security flaw on the bot's end due to it helping us find them easier? I feel like they would want to conceal it... Unless it isn't in their hands? As if it's some automated system they're designed to execute in order to legitimize themselves. Either way, we have nothing else to do but collect more information...