Just reached a particular milestone on Bandcamp today!

500,000 plays since I joined the platform in October 2011 almost fifteen years ago. There's almost thirty years of music [Ambient/Electronic] well over one hundred solo releases and of course all of this wouldn't be possible without my kind supporters/followers that keep me motivated & inspired to create new music whenever I can. Thank you.

i released a few days ago an ambiental ep on bandcamp, and i'm a bit clueless on how to promote it towards bandcamp users, i didnt put a price on it, so people can donate what they want if they want, i thought that would improve the reach of the ep but it didnt. How can i find the right people that will engage with it?

I never understood this so I want to know why people do it. If you don't plan on downloading/keep in your collection, why bother claiming it in the first place? You clearly don't seem to have any interest in it. Leave the codes for the people that DO want it. Is it out of spite, are there trolls that do this or am I missing something? I've seen this happen many times and I've only shared codes for two albums. I know there are lots of hoarders that just claim whatever gets shared but I find those less problematic when they keep it in their collection.

Am I paranoid or does anyone else gets the feeling that some of the plays/traffic on BC come from scrapers/bots? Not sure how else to explain the situation where I had one full play and about 50 skips on a single track at one point.

Not sure if anything can be done about this. Just an observation...