# What are these?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-these/416418>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 3, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-these/416418 "2026-11-03T14:03:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_McIvor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johnny_mcivor/32/218747_2.png) [@Johnny\_McIvor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johnny_McIvor)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-these/416418/1 "2026-11-03T14:03:05Z")

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Set 1: Possibly bots that Discourse has generated automatically. (They all start out with admin privileges and don’t have IP addresses).

 ![Screenshot at 2026-11-03 09-00-46](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/8/e/38e92f1bb661edece7fb5ba0c3557f443d4d94a8.png)

Set 2: More insidious. Random IPs, accounts seem to be created automatically

 ![Screenshot at 2026-11-03 09-00-02](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/b/c/cbc6f6149c0ee8d7200b6ae9c32220f9064fe96b.png)

What is this person trying to do?

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