Educational post about engagements, fake followers and spambots. Recently it has been common to decide if a project is hyped based on their number of Twitter followers or Discord members. Checking reactions on announcements or engagements on Twitter posts been done often as well. When people see low engagement rate or absurdly high Discord members compared to activity, people used to scream rug/FUD/botted immediately. But the reality is, these projects often do not bot themselves, people bot ...