Good question! Steemulator asked the same question, so hereby the same answer :-)
Short answer: no, they're not seen as a bot, at all!
Longer answer: the proposed mechanism is extendable with all sorts of metrics, that combined identify bots / spammers extremely accurately, distinguished from new users, like me (my own account is brand new!).
Examples:
very low UA, very high amount of posts (that's a sign, right? lots of messages but nobody follows..)
very low UA, very high rewards (that's even stranger!)
very low UA, yet it has lots of followers (spooky....!)
very high UA, zero posts (hmmm, that seems like a passive whale account...)
etc.
PS: in case an account has zero followers (new accounts), they are not found on the total link graph. Yet they are easily includable via a "NewUsers bot", detecting accounts with zero followers, and following them for inclusion within the follower graph.
Good question! Steemulator asked the same question, so hereby the same answer :-)
Short answer: no, they're not seen as a bot, at all!
Longer answer: the proposed mechanism is extendable with all sorts of metrics, that combined identify bots / spammers extremely accurately, distinguished from new users, like me (my own account is brand new!).
Examples:
etc.
PS: in case an account has zero followers (new accounts), they are not found on the total link graph. Yet they are easily includable via a "NewUsers bot", detecting accounts with zero followers, and following them for inclusion within the follower graph.