Shield-IT Project - Report #28 (10/04/24 to 17/04/24)

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INTRODUCTION

In recent weeks, the Italian community has highlighted the launch of the Shield-it project, on the platform. This initiative is spearheaded by the @italygame Witness team and aims to address the negative impacts experienced by users who have been unfairly targeted by downvote abuse.

Thanks to the invaluable support from @steemcurator01 and numerous members of various international communities, users affected by unwarranted downvotes have received substantial compensation. This overwhelming response has bolstered the belief of the @italygame Team in the project's effectiveness and positive impact.

In the spirit of utmost transparency, however, we believe it's important to highlight a few key points:

  • Shield-IT will actively monitor instances of abuse and will also consider reports submitted by any Steemit user. Each case will be carefully evaluated and addressed collectively before any action is taken. It's important to note that the @shield-it account's scope is not limited solely to the Italian community; it will assess cases from across the entire platform.

  • The purpose of the Shield-IT account is not, and will never be, to take sides in any downvote disputes between users, nor to pass judgment on the actions of community curators, administrators, moderators, or other users regarding individual actions. Its sole aim is to provide compensation to those who have been clearly and unequivocally targeted by negative votes for reasons that violate the platform's rules and guidelines.

  • The Shield-IT account will never directly intervene with the perpetrator of any abuse but will solely provide support to the affected users. However, if the individual responsible for the downvote abuse has not already done so, they will be asked, in the interest of transparency, to explain the reasons behind their downvote.

  • In this regard, Shield-IT encourages all users who may resort to downvoting, regardless of the reasons, to provide an explanation to the affected parties through a comment. This fosters a culture of transparency and accountability within the community.

HOW SHIELD-IT WORKS

Shield-IT aims to provide an upvote of equal strength, or as close as possible, to counteract the impact of the downvote received. To ensure the effectiveness of the project, it may be necessary to achieve a voting power of at least 100K SP. Therefore, delegations from those willing to support the account's actions are welcome.

However, during this initial phase, while waiting for the voting power of Shield-IT to grow, we will adopt a different approach. We will designate users recognized as victims of unwarranted downvotes as beneficiaries of 90% of the post's rewards, distributed according to the severity of the negative votes received.

Please, note: in the event that the accounts targeted by downvotes exceed eight (the maximum limit for adding beneficiaries), @shield-it will have to make choices and inevitably exclude some of them.

Every action taken by the Shield-IT account will be transparent and documented through the publication of one or more weekly reports.

For more detailed information on how the Shield-IT account operates, please refer to THE PROJECT PRESENTATION POST

REPORT #28 - ACTIONS TAKEN FROM 10/04/24 TO 17/04/24

This week Shield-it has not encountered any unwarranted use of downvotes, and even the unpleasant situations that had persisted for a long time seem to have fortunately been resolved.

The Shield-it Team acknowledges with satisfaction how the work done in these weeks has borne fruit but remains equally vigilant and available to anyone who feels affected by unwarranted downvotes to consider their case.

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The ITALYGAME Team:

@girolamomarotta, @sardrt, @mikitaly, @mad-runner, @famigliacurione, @frafiomatale


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INTRODUZIONE

Le scorse settimane la comunità italiana ha presentato all'attenzione della piattaforma l'avvio del progetto Shield-it, account amministrato dal team del Witness @italygame che si occuperà principalmente di riequilibrare gli effetti negativi subiti dagli utenti vittime dell'abuso accertato di downvote.

Il prezioso supporto fornito da @steemcurator01 e da diversi membri delle varie communities internazionali ha permesso agli utenti vittime di downvotes immotivati di ottenere un abbondante risarcimento, spingendo il Team di @italygame a credere nella bontà del progetto.

All'insegna della massima trasparenza, riteniamo tuttavia utile sottolineare con forza alcuni aspetti:

  • Shield-IT agirà monitorando direttamente eventuali casi di abuso, ma raccoglierà anche segnalazioni da qualunque utente di Steemit, valutandole attentamente e in maniera collegiale prima di intervenire. L'account @shield-it non sarà naturalmente limitato alla sola comunità italiana, ma valuterà casi presenti sull'intera piattaforma.

  • L'intento dell'account Shiled-IT non è, e non sarà mai, quello di prendere posizione in eventuali battaglie di downvotes tra utenti, né di giudicare l'operato di community curators, amministratori, moderatori e altri utenti di fronte alla singola azione, ma esclusivamente di offrire una sorta di compensazione a chi verrà evidentemente e sopra ogni ragionevole dubbio bersagliato da voti negativi per motivi che esulano dalle regole della piattaforma.

  • L'intervento dell'account Shield-IT non avverrà mai direttamente sul responsabile di eventuali abusi, ma sarà da considerare esclusivamente come supporto agli utenti danneggiati. Tuttavia, qualora non lo avesse ancora fatto, il responsabile di un eventuale abuso di downvote verrà invitato, nell'ottica di una miglior trasparenza, a spiegare i motivi del suo ricorso al voto negativo.

  • A tal proposito, Shield-IT invita tutti gli utenti che dovessero eventualmente ricorrere alla pratica del downvote, indipendentemente dalle ragioni, a spiegarne le motivazioni ai diretti interessati con un commento, in un'ottica di apprezzabile trasparenza.

COME AGISCE SHIELD-IT

Shield-IT prevede nelle intenzioni l'assegnazione di un upvote di pari forza, o il più possibile similare, al downvote ricevuto. Per fare in modo che il progetto funzioni in maniera apprezzabile potrebbe essere necessario raggiungere un potere di voto di almeno 100K SP, e di conseguenza saranno ben accette eventuali deleghe da parte di chi desidererà supportare l'azione dell'account.

Tuttavia, In questa prima fase, in attesa della crescita del potere di voto dell'account Shield-IT, si opererà in maniera diversa, inserendo come beneficiari del 90% delle rewards del post, ripartite in base all'incidenza dei voti negativi ricevuti, gli utenti riconosciuti come vittime di downvotes immotivati.

Attenzione, per favore: nel caso in cui gli account bersagliati da downvote siano più di otto (limite massimo per l'inserimento dei beneficiari), @shield-it dovrà forzatamente operare delle scelte ed escludere alcuni di essi.

Ogni operazione compiuta dall'account Shield-IT verrà resa pubblica attraverso la pubblicazione di un report, previsto a cadenza settimanale.

Per ulteriori informazioni sulle modalità di azione dell'account Shield-IT, vi preghiamo di consultare IL POST DI PRESENTAZIONE DEL PROGETTO

REPORT #28 - AZIONI INTRAPRESE DAL 10/04/24 AL 17/04/24

Questa settimana Shield-it non ha riscontrato alcun uso immotivato del downvote e anche le spiacevoli situazioni che perduravano da molto tempo sembrano essersi fortunatamente risolte.

Il Team Shield-it prende atto con soddisfazione di come il lavoro svolto in queste settimane abbia portato i propri frutti ma continua a rimanere ugualmente vigile e a disposizione di chiunque ritenga di essere colpito da downvote immotivato per valutarne il caso.

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The ITALYGAME Team:

@girolamomarotta, @sardrt, @mikitaly, @mad-runner, @famigliacurione, @frafiomatale


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Why are you saying there is no downvote abuse this week when my jondoe and jrcornel accounts are being downvoted every day still? It has now been several weeks in a row that you are not acknowledging this even though I have left comments to you each week. This project is starting to look suspect...

Siamo lieti di notare che qualcun altro sta provvedendo a farti recuperare il valore dei tuoi downvote. Meglio per te, chi è amico dei ladri ha tanti vantaggi! Non voti il witness, non supporti il progetto, non fai nulla e pretendi...addirittura vieni a dire a noi che il nostro progetto è sospetto, quando sei uno dei primi clienti di upex...ci vuole veramente una bella faccia tosta, vergognati e ringrazia che ti abbiamo preso in considerazione, da oggi in poi non sarà più così.

We're happy to see that someone else is making sure you get the value of your downvotes back. Better for you, those who are friends with thieves have many advantages! You don't vote for the witness, you don't support the project, you don't do anything and you demand...you even come and tell us that our project is suspect, when you are one of the first customers of upex...it really takes a lot of nerve, shame on you and be grateful that we took you into consideration, from today onwards it will no longer be the case.

Ho seguito parzialmente questa vicenda, perché preso da diverse altre situazioni, ma di sicuro se un utente arriva a far dire certe cose a un utente come te, caro @girolamomarotta, che gode della mia piena e incondizionata fiducia acquisita nel corso di un rapporto che ormai dura da diversi anni, in cui ti sei sempre confermato come una persona equilibrata e rispettosa, allora vuol dire che l'ha combinata veramente grossa, hai tutto il mio supporto, nel limite di quello che vale, in quello che stai facendo, caro amico mio, considerando anche il fatto che il tuo compito su Steemit è di grande responsabilità, ma lo svolgi in maniera impeccabile...

Not sure what upex has to do with anything to be honest? Anyone is free to use any upvote service they wish, is this not the case? And what are you talking about friends with thieves?! If anything that should be said about you as it looks like that is the case with you and symbionts as you are clearly in bed together. And the "nerve"? Yes the "nerve" was the expectation that you would run your service honorably, but it appears you have chosen not to do so...

  ·  7 months ago (edited)

After some thought this deserves a more thorough reply...

You said:

We're happy to see that someone else is making sure you get the value of your downvotes back. Better for you, those who are friends with thieves have many advantages!

Not knowing exactly what you are referring to here, but judging by the timing of when you suddenly started ignoring me getting downvoted, this has something to do with the xeldal account sometimes voting my posts. Not sure why this is a crime according to you as I have no control over who xeldal votes for? Also it looks like xeldal is voting many users of the upex voting service, and it also looks like he is voting YOU as well (and your buddy symbiont's ecosynthesizer auto-posting scam account). Furthermore, upon digging even further into the xeldal voting habits and there are some very interesting voting habits on 6 day old posts and farm accounts that I am sure you don't really want me to dig too much deeper into and publicly comment on right here... am I right?!

You don't vote for the witness, you don't support the project, you don't do anything and you demand

Since when did you require users who are abusively downvoted to vote for your witness or support your projects? That isn't listed as a requirement anywhere... And I did not demand, I simply asked you why you kept saying there were no more abusive downvoting going on when there clearly was... asking you why your project was not running the way it was supposed to. Hardly demanding...

you even come and tell us that our project is suspect

Yes your project is starting to look suspect as you ignored me for 3 weeks when trying to contact you about continuing to be abusively downvoted by your buddy. In the meantime you have been getting upvoted (by xeldal no less) and sitting on those rewards... while there are accounts being abusively downvoted which reimbursing them is the mission statement of your project by the way.

Uomo, che bene, succede come a quella persona che dà fastidio a un'altra, ma trova sulla sua strada qualcuno che la difende, quindi si arrende, beh almeno con quella persona, ma stanno guardando a chi possono fare del male, queste persone non cambiano

Downvoted due to reports from several users that this project is not operating how it was intended. Plus its close relationship with the user symbionts who has been downvoting Upex users for many weeks and months.