Hello to all the minnows, dolphins, whales out there. We never thought things would come to this, but it appears automated buying of upvotes has increased dramatically in the recent weeks, perhaps months.
We have known for a while about "botting" - a term, which we have used for automated vote buying from us. But the scale of things, when digging deeper, surprises us. Thousands upon thousands of requests by bot owners, to buy upvotes.
We understand, that due to the popularity growth of Steemit, the demand for visiblity has also grown and even quite significantly, one could say. This, in turn, has reduced the availability of votes, that Minnowbooster can offer. So, user's might think - "why not use a bot for bot"? Let us clarify:
Minnowbooster is a bot, but we are a service for minnows, valued authors and a tool for visibility, not a field of easy profits. By hammering us with thousands of requests, botters make the situation with the availability of votes even worse, reducing other code-privy individuals to starting up their own automated vote-buying bots, which in turn creates another cascading snowball effect.
While it is probably true, that some of these thousands of requests are not malicious, hammering us with such an amount of unnecessary requests is not Ok with us. By reducing the availability of the votes for the customers who actually need or deserve them, you harm our clients and our business. And here we have to step in.
This is not a punishment - by blocking botters from our service, we have seen already an improvement on server performance load on our RPC nodes, better availability of votes, which all results in better business.
We urge people to use common sense when using our service. Steemit is a community for all and we will do our part to help the actual authors, who deserve some more exposure.
Keep in mind if you are caught botting your account will be banned and @MinnowBooster will no longer support your service requests, please take a moment to review our terms of service in regard to this activity.
As always we appreciate your understanding and support and are committed to making MinnowBooster a service exclusively focused on helping minnows grow!
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Word up... I really appreciate your continued efforts to make your service work within an "ethical" framework.
I will have to say, due to the limited availability lately it has become quite hard to actually "hit" an available vote. Sending quickly repeated requests of the same kind to "catch" a vote eventually has been pretty much the only option lately.
I understand the likes of mine (probably triggering 10-20 requests [manually] within a minute) are probably not the problem you are referring to, but it does underline the problem, it's almost impossible to get a decent upvote purchased without acting 'bot-ish'.
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I didn't use it a lot in last few months, because the available upvotes were only few cents. I am even giving my upvotes to the service and exchanging them for upvoting my comments, just because I can not use decent upvotes on my articles. I hope there will be a fix soon
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A little update on the story... This morning I came to discover:
apparently it indeed is enough to act bot-ish manually, I didn't quite expect that.
Anyhow, I was pretty sure this was a false automatic detection so I headed over to the MB Discord to ask for instructions on how I could appeal the blacklisting and what to avoid in the future.
I was kicked off the Discord Server without any comment
I understand the tension is high and there are probably tons of appeals similar to mine right now stressing the mods to the limit, but really, that was just unprofessional...
To clarify... I am ~80SBD into my monthly limit and yesterday I did send the same 10SBD request probably 30 times over to get that one upvote on one post. I do that manually and I do not think my posts are being disqualified due to "quality" concerns.
I'd appreciate your comment on the situation.
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Hang in there buddy. MB is going to announce sweeping changes to the vote market and take a big leap forward in the next few days!
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ummm... ok?!
so does that mean my blacklist status has been revoked? Is there any way for me to join the discord again after being kicked out for no reason?
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Same happened to me :( And I do not use bots.
Also I do not consider my posts as a spam although they are sort of short - mostly graphics made by me (i'm not so fluent in english - its hard for me to create longer posts)
Well... blacklisted or not I will carry on. C'ya!
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Your wallet looks very suspicious!
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Then check out my blog, it's really nice, friendly, open and you're welcome :)
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Do you mean the getting blacklisted or the kicked off discord without any comment part?!
I totally understand that a blacklisting can happen, but I am a bit shocked to get thrown out the door for asking about it, without any correspondence at all.
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A was blacklisted while sending bids
I usually send quickly many requests from 0.04 to 1 SBD
You know: send / backspace /change SBD value / send again/ repeat
It may look like bot's work :)
I hope blacklisting will be temporary or revised.
If not ... oh well, tough luck :)
P.S.
LOL, I didn't expected sending 10SBD or even more is legit and brings effects :)
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ah ok... well i guess that's not really a poblem then... as I said, blacklisting can happen for many reasons.
I really appreciate their effort to weed out spam and abuse, so a zealous blacklist is great imho. It's when you get thrown out for just trying to appeal, without being given any comment... that's where I think things start going wrong.
10 SBD works... there are a few big vote sellers on minnowbooster, they are hard to catch, and so yes, it takes repeated attempts similar to what you're doing at the right time to get these.
So I guess I did that too much?! I usually buy a vote every second day or so... it's really not that much compared to what i see others doing on much less original posts (well I guess that's subjective.... but anyways...)
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Feel free to join the discord room again and inquire about MB service and your account again if you'd like..
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yeah... well, the invite links in the MB posts all seem to have expired? Do you have one for me that works?
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Well, I do not know if 10 SBD is too much. Actually "The Steemmarket" will adapt and adjust itself. I often see people bids much higher. I thought you just have no chance to "win" upvote this high. I thought only minnows with small voting power sells their votes to minnowbooster. But thinking this over.... Whales can sell their votes too. It makes sense. Lol I'm constantly learning :).
From my point of view:
Minnowbooster is ok (although it blacklisted me <no hard feelings, they can do what they want >) In my case MB helped me to gain reputation and gain some voting power.
I truly believe that making good content is the best way to succeed on Steemit.com, but with no reputation and no followers you can stick your GREAT CONTENT up "Y.A."
That is why MB is a great tool to make a change
You can cite me.
No, you can't.
I 've just copyrighted this slogan.
And I'm shipping t-shirts worldwide.
Everybody grab your hands and sing along!:
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krkrkr... lol
yeah... let's heal the world alright :D
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Getting kicked out is pretty unprofessional. I've been a big fan of minnowbooster and now I'm just disappointed. If you don't mind waiting to get white-listed try smartsteem
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I'm not sure you have much to say about this @vimukthi as your clearly an abuser in addition to fraenk... I'm sure getting kicked out of discord was a mistake but considering you guys have both abused the system I don't think you have much to say at this point that will make you look credible or make people feel sorry for you...
Here's a sample of the suspicious behavior i found in your wallet just a minute ago for other folks to see...
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They are all manual transfers. I don't even have enough knowledge to code a bot. I re-send my transfers because they keep coming back with the same message. It didn't used to be like this.
I used to just check the graph and send a bid. But I haven't seen a value above 0.5 SBD in weeks. Getting an upvote is pretty much like a gamble. I have to try many times to get an upvote.
Even though the message say to look at the chart most of the time only about 0.1 votes are available. I do not stare at the charts all the time. So I may have missed some.
I assure you that all transfers were 100% manual.
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You're not an abuser @vimukthi!
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sorry... did you just say I am "clearly an abuser" or did I read that wrongly?!
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fair play. get rid of those who abuse the system. I'm new to steemit and have been watching this argument closely....
Keep it up so content stands out by itself...
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nice way plugging your ref-link ;)
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You can try Smartsteem white list only bot as long as you have decent content although you'd have to wait until your posts are manually reviewed for higher value votes.
(The link is a referral)
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and now it looks like ref-link-spam!
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Sorry if it annoyed you. I was kind of pissed by the out of nowhere ban even though all transfers were manual. Though of letting people know about the competition. I used to think of 2 services as pretty much equals. The inaccurate bot detection Vs White-list only made Smartsteem look much better now.
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Yeah, I feel you... but I think it's generally not a nice practice to deploy referral links without clearly marking them as such.
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It did seem like an obvious thing as I habitually read the link before clicking it. Edited it to make it dummy proof.
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Actually I did use @smartsteem already twice or so.
I didn't know that they judge my posts before upvoting O_0. Respect2them!
I thought no one cares. They upvoted, so they liked apparently. :)
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@piotrgrafik,
We don't look manually before the upvote. @smartsteem's upvotes are currently open for everyone, but many votes available on smartsteem.com are only available for whitelisted users.
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same thing happened to me, i wanted to get a big upvote so i followed minnowbooster's voting power, and when the power came to 57% i knew its going to start voting, so i kept sending one after another, because i missed it before, and this day was the last to take vote on that particular post. i did it manually in the website, i get it that i shouldn't have done that, but as you said its really hard to get a big upvote,
and i got blacklisted,
then i was kicked off the discord server....
now, lets see if i can get on smartsteems whitelist........
minnowbooster was the best though
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The same thing just happened to me. It was near impossible to get a vote and I had to try over and over. Suddenly I get a message saying: We currently refuse to make business with you! We'll stop refunding in 9 attempts
That's when I came in and saw this post. I'm one of the 67 accounts with 3 stars on smartsteem white list. I buy all my votes manually and even that's near impossible getting a decent upvote is like winning a lottery. Then I got banned.
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well... but the point here really is... a zealous blacklist is fine... but dropping customers without comment isn't. I'm fine with ending up on a blacklist... and i'd try to talk to them before making a racket on some public post...
but i got kicked off their discord without comment... THAT's the issue here!
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They do need some good communication. I simply came across this post after seeing a memo that read: We currently refuse to make business with you! We'll stop refunding in 9 attempts
I probably overacted as it seemed like I was being accused of making a bot when I don't even know how to code one. I don't know how the algorithm works. They didn't even included a warning or even a reason in the memo they sent. I was just confused and then a little pissed.
Communication is key. No warnings or even parameters (like only X transfers within Y hours) were given. I was trying hard to get an upvote and the next thing I know is the above mentioned memo.
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Yeah... i guess tensions are high right now. Their new auto-detection is arguably very sensitive and MANY users have been blacklisted.
Now this certainly helps to weed out the hundreds (thousands) of abusing farm accounts and that's certainly a good thing for the community in the end.
I was already able to clear my name and have access to their service and their discord again, but it took quite some initiative as the mods are fighting with hundreds of appeals right now.
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I support their intentions. It's just the execution. Their algorithm clearly wasn't well coded. I'm no programmer but I don't think there would have been this many false detection if it was well written. Maybe they simply checked transfer frequency and flagged the accounts.
The worst thing was communication. The 40 SBD limits were well set and well communicated. This current mess clearly wasn't.
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I also got the same message just now - We currently refuse to make business with you! I havent been abusing there service - anyone had any luck trying get off the so called 'blacklist?'
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Contact them on discord. Give them your account link and explain what happened.
https://discordapp.com/invite/2zC7sf?utm_source=Discord%20Widget&utm_medium=Connect
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How does all this work I'm so confused I want to invest but Everytime I try to it won't transfer my funds
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I'm agree with you that bot to buy upvotes are not correct but I think you set your level of request too low because I just have been also blacklisted while I did only manual requests...
"Vote request failed! You have been blacklisted!"
When we receive a message as below, what is the problem to send one or several new requests with another amount to try to match ? :
refund: Sorry, we could not upvote you with *** ⇒ $****, please try a different amount. Our website https://www.minnowbooster.net has a graph with what sends are currently working.
Please tell us what we can do to have again access to your services as I never used bot to buy upvotes. I'm just using your website with your internal wallet.
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Automated upvotes are destroying the Steem Blockchain it is MinnowBooster's job to be a custodian and practice responsible behavior in terms of facilitating votes. Stay tuned for new improvements and if you feel you have been unfairly blacklisted and you upvote QUALITY content then drop by the discord and and leave your steemit URL for review! Thanks!
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They just block people from their discord channel, even before they got a chance to prove they are innocent. Im pretty sure it meant to be innocent until prove guilty but it the other way round and they dont give a shit who they block or they are just bad developers that cart create a system that cart detect bots properly.
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Do you want these guys to just pat you on the back when you abuse their service and break their TOS?? Look at a screen shot from your wallet sir and think about who is in the wrong... Pretty sure it is you @liaminit!
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How is that breaking the rule, all i did is brought some SB because i did not have any at all and when i had more post i wanted to upvote them but didnt have enough so i brought more, what am i meant to do get SB out of thin air to use the service. This service is very misleading and i thought this service is to help people to get notice, but i guess not. Also blocktrades is an exchange not an account. So stop trying to make me look bad
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Stop crying and go elsewhere....
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im also blacklisted.i am not using any bot.i just buy upvote from minnowbooster website and wallet.
@minnowbooster please ans me.many of not using any bot but you banned them.im use manual, but why banned me..
@cryptopassion
@sou1iane
@lovehaswon
@dera123
@fkzgr
we need once chance.we didn't use any bot.please unbanned us.and give permission again use your service.
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This comment has received a 0.35 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @alex12.
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Same here i been blacklisted for no reason and when i try and prove i wasn't a bot they just blocked me from their discord. It seems to me that they dont care who they block and just complete bad support
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Actually no you were banned because you blantently abused the system, broke TOS and were rude! But nice effort trying to spread lies... You own a farming account. I encourage everyone reading this to look @liaminit's posts and see for yourselves!
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How was i farming i was only upvoting my own post to get notice, i do not get why you think im farming and yea i reinvest my earning but there is nothing wrong in that. If i was farming i think there would be a better way to do that then use this service. Also i never was rude so stop spreading lies, i got screenshot to prove i wasnt rude
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Also there is a 40SB daily limit, so if you say im sending excessive amounts thats just plain stupid, i honestly not intended to farm and i honestly dont know why you thinking that, all because i brought some Sb from an exchange and sent it to minnowbooster. People do things differently from others doesnt mean they are doing something wrong.
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Same here. :(
They say, I am using upvote bot, but I am not. I was doing it manually. THEY SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED OR MADE THIS CLEAR ABOUT HOW MANY TIMES WE SHOULD ASK FOR UPVOTE A DAY.
Many people got into blacklist even though we are not using any bot. This is not fair.
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That's right. I have to say but minnowbooster has been doing really really bad moves lately. It started with their stupid update that made the graph definitely incorrect and now their program supposed to be for anti-bot is hurting those innocent users like you. That's why I'm starting to like smarsteem more.
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This is the same problem that I have. I was called an abuser because I repeatedly sent SBD to the bot as they kept returning. There were no warnings or even parameters. I don't know how this blacklist was made. I didn't send repeated bids when the chart was working. I don't even know how to code a bot. I did manually sent about 10 bids in about 20 mins. Guess it was above the limit(which nobody informed me of)
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Even bots won't send that far... (Bots can send faster but they won't do it because it's a very suspicious move.) I think sending 5 bids in an hour is overdoing it.
But that's just my opinion maybe because I don't like posting many posts a day and I consider it spamming depending on quality.
My point is, 10 bids in 20 minutes would seem a bot work to anyone who checks the wallet without checking the posts that were voted.
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He is absolutely right, he used the same way with several amounts to see if he gives me an ascending vote. That has not been added, but I have been added to the blacklist, when I only use the manual purchase of votes. I should solve this. Otherwise, all users will be on the blacklist. @cryptopassion @techblogger
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I've got to say the behavior on your account looks very suspicious as well! Clearly MB is doing something right spotting lots of suspicious activity... From your wallet I can see you have several accounts... Farming perhaps? How many accounts do you own 3? 5? Care to explain these recent activities?
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I do not understand what you mean by "Agriculture maybe?" I have only one account for almost a year, the ones shown here are @roseri (my sister) @ismael (my brother in law) @etnique (family) .. In my family, I am in charge of changing the SBD or STEEM to the currency local. You can see in the transactions that the same amount of STEEM that I transferred was the same as that transferred to the service @Change an account of @cervantes. In the same way, the account of @mlaura is a friend who did him the favor.
And the transfer to @etnique has nothing to do with @minnowbooster.
If you are so kind, you can verify each of the accounts that you consider suspicious.
I'm even using the leasing service they offer.
By the way, good idea of the catcha system they implemented. I hope to continue using the service.
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I can say this can happen, and not necessarily suspicious.
I'me too, in the charge of about 4 users money when they want to turn them into local currency (My brother, two sisters and a friend of family who is also in charge of his brother.) Because they aren't technical they tell me whenever they want to use SBD for something and sometimes I find it easier to use them through my own account.
Don't know if that is considered farming.
By the way @osmerj: Farming and Not Agriculture is the when you make more than one account and use each one of them to get money then put all the money in one account to cashout. Like what you did.
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@techblogger , take a look at my account and tell me your opinion on if I too am abusing. it seems like the other examples are transferring a bunch of funds between accounts, but I have been re-investing my post rewards. When I got banned, I had done 2 orders for minnow booster, but only 1 per. if you track the previous day, you'll notice that I only put in one order per post otherwise, and they technically didn't even go through.... Any insight would be great, because my intent is only to use the service, not to abuse it.
Thank you for your time!
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Someone have a link to acces to minnowbooster discord channel because the link doesn't work
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Same for me and I think there are many more who got blacklisted for requesting too fast. Just reduced the vote amount by 10 cent per request until it worked and well that was too fast for the bot detection ^^
I think they need to install a time limit between the requests
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same here :\
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i am photographer and i write my photo settings as long as possible. some of them i add poems. its not spam...
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Yes, I am also been banned recently. There's is no clear mention why I am banned. I am manually sending bids.
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It's time to change services I guess.
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Sure, you can do that but if you post quality content its much easier to just drop by the discord and show your URL if you've been banned unfairly and you arent a spammer or scammer I'm sure they will take you off the blacklist!
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well... I tried reaching out on discord and was instantly kicked off the server?!
what's up with that? Oh and all discord invites on your sites and posts are expired? Or did I actually get banned from re-joining, too?!
That was a pretty shitty experience guys!
P.S.: I left a comment on the top of this post with more detail on my case if you'd care to comment on that, I'd appreciate that a lot!
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@fraenk I've taken your points to heart. I've got nothing left to say other than just leaving this screenshot of all the votes you bought. The system picked up your account and auto flagged it. Please join the discord again and we will fix this up.
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lol... dude... double check that... exactly ONE vote is purchased... that's the peaceandlove one!
reggae voted me manually, ausbit has a follow vote on my account... You should be able to double-check your logs on which votes came through MB...
you're being pretty damn impolite with those assumptions... and I am actually not upset at all (well, maybe now i am a little bit)...
P.S.: Glad we cleared this up via discord eventually... just for the record: I am no longer blacklisted - I did not cheat - everything is hunky dory - MB is doing the right thing by being overly cautious!
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I'm glad as well. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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Sir, can you please recheck. I haven't used any automated bot for upvotes from Mb. I have just used usual Minnowbooster balance window. Please remove my account from that blacklist.
~Thank you!
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Luckily I at least have bandwidth. Just think about minnows repeatedly getting the above message and running out of bandwidth.
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I think setting up a recaptcha is enough to prevent from bot vote buying. If we can get upvote straight away, it is done and we don't need to try again and again. Lifting users from banning is necessary to maintain stability of minnowbooster.
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My suggestion is lower upvote value a little bit, currently MB is the best promotion service in Steemit So everyone want to use MB. And also reconsider about comment promotion becuase people are using comment promotion more than post promotion. Comment promotion is using the auto promote feature, if we can use this in post promotion there will less request to server.
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Will this change still drain my VP enough!?
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Great to see this article and I have also noticed over the last few days that the actual amount of votes available over 0.01 is higher than normal which is good.
Thank you for the update and I really like the service you guys offer.
Many Thanks
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Happy to read some insight info on what has been happening and how you guys are trying to improve things.
I think this will be one of the most important things to tackle in the next few months: how do we stop the pure 'money grabbing' without discouraging the creation of quality content...
OR: When and how will this fork happen (separation of BS spam posts and quality content)?
Resteemed!
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Hi! Yesterday I got in the black list from MB, because I am supposed to use the bots to work. But it's not, I've never used them and I'm not going to. My queries were all made by hand. Their number is due only to the fact that it is very difficult to get any upvote. Schedule on your website https://www.minnowbooster.net very far from reality and it is very difficult to navigate on the real availability of votes. Information that the number of requests to the service is limited, I have not seen anywhere else. How many of them can be done, how often, etc. Please tell me (and others one), what can I do to again get access to your services, since I never used the bot to buy upvotes.I like your service very much and I would be happy to use it further. Thanks, @bigslick
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Hi minnowbooster could I please have my slider back. It is no longer available in my account.
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I eventually found the slider. Thanks for telling me you moved it!
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Got blacklisted
After my comments was auto promoted is comment auto promo forbidden
My discord : sou1iane001#5241 your invitation link has expired
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I sent 19.8 3 times and for another user minnowbooster didnt refund .. WHY is that????? refund my 60 sbds....
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Some response why the bot detector blacklists so many non botting would be great.
And maybe a voting system like the one smartsteem uses would be awesome, it combines multiple smaller upvotes for the requested amount and because of that you don't have to request multiple 0,01sbd upvotes
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Never thought that bots would buy upvotes from other higher ranked bots.
It is a funny world we live in.
Good to notice that you guys want to separate the minnows how desperately want to get some exposure from the money hunger bots.
Keep on doing great work!
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Thank you for the update and I really like the service you guys offer.
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thanks for posting this and also making us steemians aware of the general problem. i can see where it starts to become a huge issue - especially if it became such that people were buying them all up and then scalping them - aka selling them at a higher price like they do with tickets. not even sure if its possible - but good that we're putting a stop to it before it can get worse. this is support for minnows! we need it! :) thanks for all that you do!
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why im doing multiple request with small value? because 0.01 come in great returns for me, (0.027 it is healty returns).
before these, ...
sent:
25 days ago Transfer 1.005 SBD to minnowbooster https://steemit.com/gardening/@syafrizal/tanaman-cabai-rawit-ini-tumbuh-subur-tingginya-mencapai-3-meter-tanpa-perawatan-intensif
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25 days ago Transfer 0.008 SBD from minnowbooster You got an upgoat worth roughly 2.72$ in post rewards that will be done by kathybell. We detected an open value of 0.023 SBD, worth 0.008 SBD in send and refunded that.
but the memo going wrong..
i got only these!
what happen if i split my request ? i got at least 2.700 for 1.000
please give the solution bacause we (minnow) need MB service too
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This comment has received a 0.04 % upvote from @speedvoter thanks to: @syafrizal.
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Nice one
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Hopefully this will give some authors a chance to actually be able to pay for a decent upvote
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What happened to the upvote % bar in user info update? I can not seem to find it. Thanks.
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Never mind. found it under a separate tag. Stupid me. Thanks for everything @minnowbooster. Hope there will be more upvotes along the way once all those bots spamming stops.
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I am glad that you're taking a strong move on autobots. Minnowbooster is to help new writers get some exposure and if others try to abuse it then it will not benefit the new writers on steemit that it was created for. we have to help those new to steemit to be successful if not they will get frustrated with our great platform.
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Nice one ,thanks for the information it will be very usefull.
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Help. You could enter a warning first, not immediately Ban
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I understand bots are bad. but getting the AMS without sending a lot of requests was almost impossible. We had to send many repeated requests. Texts of good quality. And behind this ban?
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Well if you used a bot for sending these requests then you know why you got banned, if you got banned because of sending too much requests manual by hand well then the sensitivity of the bot search algorithm or what ever it is is a bit to high. The same thing happened to me and I don't think that I can request an upvote as fast as a bot ^^
Well if I don't get the requested upvote I reduce the amount until a vote is available. If that triggers the bot detection, then you will have to tweak it a bit more or you have to use a limit like only one request every 30seconds or something like that.
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I sent requests as soon as the page was updated. I didn't see in the rules it is wrong. For frequent requests received ban. The service is very good for both buyers and sellers. I would love to continue to use your service, but I'm in the black list. I would rarely send requests and do not neglect apply
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Ive received this
We currently refuse to make business with you! We'll stop refunding in 9 attempts
not sure whats it about, coz i'm not a bot making requests
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why not working with me ???
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minowbooster by mistack i give you sbd please give me retain it..plese
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please help me
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Was this thumbnail supposed to look like an enemy from Mega Man? Because I want to shoot my x blaster at it.
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tools don't work anymore?
https://steemd.com/tx/6bdab5ea3dd568e84b610f168d94065d977e9630
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Why do you add to the black list of authors instead of improving the algorithm?
If you can not yet evaluate the content - hold up the transfer until someone appears who likes the post with sufficient battery power for upvoted
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Hello updater,,, thanks for the d @minnowbooster update share.
Thanks for the great information
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Good
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Nice post
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Does this have to do with the decreasing rewards of the delegators?
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thank you for sharing this post, and make me think how kalou you can boost payment, by looking good content then payment will be more, can kmin @minnowbooster do it, thanks
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This is not an easy job, but @minnowbooster has done well, I think everyone will be happy with the services that @minnowbooster provides to the general public.😊
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There are still a lot of things I don't understand about this subject. So I hope you don't mind if I ask some questions?
1 Why would anyone let a bot buy votes? This bot could easily lose money right?
2 How will my post gain visibility if I buy an upvote for let's say 0.5-2 Sbd?
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Probably for bot-farming.
Automate the process of buying the guaranteed profit vote, get at least the SBD you put in back and also a little bit of SP on each dummy account, operate a huge ring of bots and hope steem/SBD stay about the same price for 7 days, then power down all the accounts, sell the steem and recycle the SBD to buy more votes endlessly. Easy way to farm money for the organizers of the bot-nets, I'd guess.
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The amount of available upvote on MB is not infinite and they can be "sold out" if the demand is bigger than the supply of votes. And I think the demand for upvotes greater than 1cent is really big. So instead sending these upvote requests by hand some ppl use bots to spam the requests until they get it.
The posts are shown in trending or hot ranked by their possible reward amount, so bigger upvotes=better ranking and visibility.
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Thanks for your answer.
About item 1, I didn't know that you will always have a little profit from minnowbooster. I thought it works the same as all the bots with 2.4 hour bidding rounds. Which could result in a loss when there are to many bids in 1 bidding round.
About item 2, I Happen to have a different vision about this subject. I believe there are so many paid upvote bots, that it doesn't give any extra visibility. Simply because there are 1,000+ Steemonians that use this option on a daily basis.
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I didn't think that people might be using bots. I am glad you fixed this.
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It seems that this move still didn't solved the lack of supply for votes.
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It looks like its working! Look again!
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i like your activity..
upvote done...
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This great information I appreciate your post thanks forsharing...
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Congratulations @minnowbooster, this post is the forth most rewarded post (based on pending payouts) in the last 12 hours written by a Superhero or Legend account holder (accounts hold greater than 100 Mega Vests). The total number of posts by Superhero and Legend account holders during this period was 58 and the total pending payments to posts in these categories was $3520.64. To see the full list of highest paid posts across all accounts categories, click here.
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Thanks for the great information
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How does one go about getting involved with @minnowbooster? I try really hard with my posts, to be full of good content, yet its pot-luck on how many views/upvotes it receives. I think miinnowbooster could benefit my adventure blogs and increase my reach to new followers who would enjoy the dangerous things I do.
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there are so much bots avail now but good bots are some. Minnowsupport is my favorite first due to its name and second due to vote quality.
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bot or not bot that is the questions...
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Why would not you make vote purchasing automatic?
Let's say I pay 1 sbd and you fill it with a 100 votes of 0.01 value each (as if I paid 0.01 a hundred of times)? This way people do not need to send multiple requests.
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Maybe they're just good in making excuses and not in efficient coding.
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ya nice post
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^--- You made this exact same comment at least 5 times and close variations at least 11 times in the last 2 hours. View these duplicate comments
Upvote this comment to support @duplibot and help reduce spam and superfluous comments.
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Well spoken & well done!
As one of the few "good" votebots (imho), you have to take care of your reputation.
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Change is great, I want to be a supplier. I can link to you
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great update..
i appreciate you...
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Hello! I have used your service for a while now, but I recently noticed that you refunded my last payment saying that you would not currently do business with me. I haven't been doing any automated voting and haven't done an excessive amount from what I thought, so I'm wondering on whether or not this is permanent or if I have done something wrong. Thank you very much.
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Thank you for providing a decent service to steemians
Minnowbooster. But due to maximum requests for
upvote, I am refused to business with you. I did not know about its rules, so please let me give chance to business with me once again. very thanks
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Great to see this article and I have also noticed over the last few days that the actual amount of votes available over 0.01 is higher than normal which is good.
Thank you for the update and I really like the service you guys offer.
Many Thanks
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Thanks for updating us with this change
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Me too Blacklisted which time i have request Upvote manualy.
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Congratulations @minnowbooster!
Your post was mentioned in the Steemit Hit Parade in the following category:
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Been blacklisted too, cant see why. Anyone got a solution of how to get off the blacklist?
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I can't see any good reason why bots should exist here. I'd rather live without them. At the end of the day this is a blogging portal and not money making machine. Promote engagement rather then automation.
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I depend on using minnowbooster to afford giving out small prizes without going broke. Seems there's an issue with a connection somewhere. I'm not getting hit up for upvotes either, so definitely not just me @techblogger.
edit: nevermind, looks like you got things under control.
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I got blacklisted 2 days back. I tried to find out why through the discord channel and the reply was 'automated voting'. I don't even know what that is....
Maybe because I was too fast with changing input amounts and trying again. The truth is...i was just following instructions that says...try again using a different amount
Please help
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I have a lease of steem on minnowbooster 3rd page tornadoman
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Also if anyone wants free bitcoin go to my newer post enjoy
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i think you need to change the minimum/maximum limit. blocking the customers is not a solution. i am also blacklisted even i have following all the terms . please help
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Hi !! Why I can not join the discord channel;; Am I blocked or black list;; Thank you!!
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tnx for upvote and resteem
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I am trying to produce quality content, I am sending you manuel sbd, there was no problem so far. but yesterday I sent 0.250 sbd, you did not vote, you have not returned the money to me:((
'we currently refuse to make business with you we'll stop refunding in 0 attempts'
that message came...
I am very sorry, what can I do:((
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I didn't use any bots for send links, so why i am in blacklist? It's really impossible guess right value of sbd for get upvotes. Graph on site doesn't give correct info usually...
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i write original posts and of course it is obvious that i am not a bot but still you blacklisted me. i don't know what i have done wrong. maybe because i was consistently using minnowbooster. maybe that is the reason. i hope someone could answer me on why I was blacklisted.
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Excellent innovation and very nice post....
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That's unbelievable! Some bot owners are really cheeky!
I was disappointed because of your voting power in the last few weeks, that support was not really helpful. Now I'm really happy that you discovered the background and block bots!
Thank you very much!
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I am trying to buy SP Delegation but always error comes. Please help me regard this. Error below
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Hello! I have nothing to do with the bots you wrote about here. But you introduced me to the black list, how can I fix it?
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Saya curiga dengan wallet anda
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nice post
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Minnowbooster is going ahead rapidly day by day. We have to know the terms and conditions for having upvote from minniowbooster . It's really a outstanding service provider's than others side. I like being a PART of minnows.....
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On MB website, my account status is showing Blacklisted.
But I am not using any bot or automated vote buying service.
Could you please fix my account status. Thank you!
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I used to use mb but theres never any available upvotes over 0.1sbd so i just gave up.
Makes sense now if bloody botters are stealing all the upvotes.
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Awesome, hopefully things get much better from here. Not being able to buy even a 0.01 upvote at times was just bad.
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Good one.
Hopefully one day the vote supply will not look like this anymore:
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Hello. I started using this service yesterday, and I was following instructions from another user so was certainly going quite slow and not at all bot-like. But somehow I am blacklisted, and since asking in discord, cannot load that now either. Please advise how this is sorted out, as it appears while blacklisted my SBD are stuck with you.
For the future, there needs to be 2 very simple changes, for the benefit of users and for you to have happy customers. 1, a short and concise do's and don'ts guide that's flashed up for all new users, or is at least accessible from the users menu. And 2, when blacklisted, please tell the naughty user why this has happened. If they are a bot, they won't care, but for us humans, we need to know what we did wrong so we don't do it again.
I have no idea how I got blacklisted, but clearly there could have been some advice that would have prevented it.
Looking forward to your reply
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really thank you very much for your help, I know that many of us help us a lot their service
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I've used your service once a couple of weeks ago. I appreciate it and Thank You. As a minnow I'm doing what I can to swim through the rough waters. It's very confusing, but at least I'm having fun in retirement.
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You guys and gals are doing an amazing job...I have already designated steempower to you and hope to be leasing some back soon. Thanks for your continous support!
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I know this may seem simplistic, but there is a solution. Stop selling votes. Let's let the system work as it was intended. Let people compete on a level playing field, instead of taking profits from minnows, without subjecting yourself to the process of earning by community favor, and risking the downvote. I know you're trying to be the ethical vote selling bot, but think about that for a minute.
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