{
  "id": 14347,
  "title": "A human bidder bids 515,033 times?",
  "url": "/competitions/facebook-recruiting-iv-human-or-bot/discussion/14347",
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  "post_date": "2015-05-21T22:08:24.433Z",
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  "content": "<p>Just did a simple profiling of the data. Found the top 3 bidders made the most bids of 515,033, 236413 and 192,565 times are all actual human?</p>\n<p>Quite strange. Can anyone give a sound explanation?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "79680",
      "postDate": "05/21/2015 22:08:24",
      "content": "<p>Just did a simple profiling of the data. Found the top 3 bidders made the most bids of 515,033, 236413 and 192,565 times are all actual human?</p>\n<p>Quite strange. Can anyone give a sound explanation?</p>",
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      "id": "79799",
      "postDate": "05/22/2015 22:14:14",
      "content": "<p>It maybe an organization of merchants that look for cheap goods.</p>",
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      "id": "79803",
      "postDate": "05/22/2015 22:53:57",
      "content": "<p>From the Trainbids forum thread one of the admins says:</p>\n<p>A few things to clarify. The results were half hand labeled, half stats-based. There are two types of &quot;bots&quot; with different levels of proof:</p>\n<p>1. Bidders who are identified as bots/fraudulent with clear proof. Their accounts were banned by the auction site.</p>\n<p>2. Bidder who may have just started their business/clicks or their stats exceed from system wide average. There are no clear proof that they are bots.</p>\n<p>I interpret this to mean&nbsp;that some of the data is misclassified.</p>",
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      "id": 79799,
      "author_name": "tovtov",
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      "post_date": "05/22/2015 22:14:14",
      "content": "<p>It maybe an organization of merchants that look for cheap goods.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    {
      "id": 79803,
      "author_name": "jturkewitz",
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      "post_date": "05/22/2015 22:53:57",
      "content": "<p>From the Trainbids forum thread one of the admins says:</p>\n<p>A few things to clarify. The results were half hand labeled, half stats-based. There are two types of &quot;bots&quot; with different levels of proof:</p>\n<p>1. Bidders who are identified as bots/fraudulent with clear proof. Their accounts were banned by the auction site.</p>\n<p>2. Bidder who may have just started their business/clicks or their stats exceed from system wide average. There are no clear proof that they are bots.</p>\n<p>I interpret this to mean&nbsp;that some of the data is misclassified.</p>",
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