There has been threads about the presence of bots in Clash of Codes in the past but I always thought the argument for them was sensible. Today, however, I received an e-mail notifying me that a user started following me. I clicked on his profile and was made aware that this “user” is a Clash of Code bot… There is no question for me that this enters the area of deceptiveness and I would urge the Codingame team to not go in that direction. I personally felt insulted by this event but will continue advertising the platform to all of my friends (if the issue is resolved) as I think it is an incredibly fun and relevant addition to the online programming world.
Those bots aren’t supposed to follow anyone. Let’s have a look at the profile of AlkhilJohn: 687 followers but following no one.
I had a look at your profile too. None of those who follow you seems to be a bot 
@eulerscheZahl I think he means the account of Phurinat.
The description says that he’s a bot, but he has solved one puzzle and his ranking statistics don’t seem like he’s a bot.
Probably it’s just a real player, who copied the text (“This account is a CodinGame bot …”) in his profile.
Having played just a few hundred clashes would make this account a rather lazy bot…
The real bots can be found by listing the CoC leaderboard by decreasing number of clashes: https://www.codingame.com/leaderboards/clash/global?column=clashescount&value=DECREASING
It seems there are 11 bots, all level 7 and played 49k games or more. Human clashers are below 10k (which is still quite remarkable, as there are less than 1k different clash puzzles…)
Phurinat is a not a CodinGame bot. Like @ItsAFeature wrote, anyone can write what they want in their bio.
There is no question for me that this enters the area of deceptiveness and I personally felt insulted by Jef808 that he could have think that CG would do that kind of thing!
just kidding 
of course, it’s not us and our bots will never follow you.
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There’s an other story of a user followed by a bot.
It’s documented here:
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