Reclaiming the irredeemable

@small11 and @dribu are 2 accounts created around the same time buying upvotes for typing few words which even looks like copy/paste. They should be in a blacklist IMO. Go look at the accounts.

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stabilowl (63) · 7 years ago (edited)

How does @small11 get $85 for a copied 2 lines netflix Ad? Are those all bought votes? Doesn't look like he used bots - at least not the popular ones

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vimukthi (73) · 7 years ago

Those 2 accounts are mostly spamming @minnowbooster for now. I've notified them on discord. When they get blacklisted there they'll move for other bots. I've already notified @smartsteem too.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

They are blacklisted from MinnowBooster and Buildawhale (which will trickle to a couple of other bots).

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vimukthi (73) · 7 years ago

Great to know. Keep up the good work!

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

I will have a look, thank you.

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bozz (70) · 7 years ago

Very nice. Way to be diligent and weed out the spammers. It is pretty sad how clever people are at trying to game the system. If only they would put that energy towards something positive!

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ats-david (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

I found there are four content accounts who post nothing but the same title and one line over and over farming around $4-5 a day using around 19 Steem Power and 3,000 delegation provided by Steemit Inc over 188 accounts.

Sure it's a relatively small amount of money...but how often does this happen? How often is it caught and how much money has been fleeced from the reward pool because of it?

This has been going on since last year. This particular incident cost STINC 19 STEEM to create those 188 accounts. That's it. This is precisely the problem with delegation - the ability to create these accounts at a low cost, thus a lower degree of responsibility to ensure that they are "good actors." Sure, they can revoke the delegation, but usually long after the exploits have already occurred and rewards have already been gained by the exploiters.

If STINC insists on creating accounts, the least they could do is stop creating obvious bot-nets and perhaps be a little more responsive when they're discovered. Ideally, they ought to stop creating accounts in the first place and burn the stake that they have and don't deserve to control.

Stop being the largest problem here, STINC.

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fycee (64) · 7 years ago

Hello there! Seeing your post on my feed is really worth reading and I really appreciate all the things you are doing making steemit a really great place to post our blogs and make the rewards a motivation blast for everyone! I totally agree that these default delegations should be given to deserving newbies to this great platform to strive harder engaging to other steemians. You are so workaholic @themarkymark and even those small and insignificant details don't leave your scrutiny. My witness, my first iconic person I laid my eyes to as I joined steemit.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

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abu-bokor (40) · 7 years ago

Very beautiful post
Thanks for the sharing post
sir
I.m new joining the steemit

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therebotelife (61) · 7 years ago

Very very nice photo

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programmingvalue (54) · 7 years ago

did you read the post?

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holybranches (60) · 7 years ago

He did. Didn't you see the footnote gif displaying Mark's hair? Very very nice photo.

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stabilowl (63) · 7 years ago

Very very nice photo. Very very nice hair too. I could smell the fragrance from here.

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1 vote

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sunlit7 (59) · 7 years ago

I think I finally have you figured out. One can always attract more bees with honey.

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suhail007 (35) · 7 years ago

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

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whoforthewhatnow (36) · 7 years ago

Every time I see a new post from @themarkymark my eyes light up and I can't wait to start reading. Keep em coming

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viraldrome (67) · 7 years ago

I didn't know about pull requests. There is shit ton of comment farming on this site

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

This is only for farming using the default delegation you get when making new accounts. Outside of that, it's down to flagging.

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funbobby51 (59) · 7 years ago

That's awesome! Perhaps that will make it so there are fewer accounts that do nothing but resteem other posts even though they don't have any followers besides their other accounts.

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stabilowl (63) · 7 years ago

Creating 180 accounts! That is a lot of effort that could be put into better use then gaming the system.

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hemantasarmah (53) · 7 years ago

you have done a good job by providing the list of account holder. I think the account of such spammers should be closed very soon.

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dollarman (50) · 7 years ago

Great

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ikar59 (54) · 7 years ago

Yes, I think that amount of delegated SP could be used and distributed better. The thing is that the essence of steemit, which is to support good content, has been lost in favor of voting for posts with high probability of gain or automatic voting.

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aiyumi (59) · 7 years ago

Good to see something being done to reclaim these delegations. It's worrying to think so many 14.9 SP delegations are either being wasted on spam accounts, or going unused in the hundreds of thousands of dead accounts.

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enforcer48 (68) · 7 years ago

Once again, thank you so much for cleaning up this place!

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katebaerfossils (39) · 7 years ago

Thanks so much. I’m new here and trying to wrap my brain around how this place works. I guess there are people trying to scam the system without adding valuable content. Thanks for being a watchdog.

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wanasoloben (61) · 7 years ago

This is so helpful information especially for us who are still new and learning how steemit still operates!

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tomtomandt (53) · 7 years ago

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