MSP Anti-Abuse Team Weekly Report #5

Anti-Abuse Team Weekly Report #5

Friday - September 29th - 2017

Again, we're going to be sticking almost entirely to the stats this week. There was only one update outside of that, and I have posted about it already. I will only briefly talk about it here.

The details of this weeks prune of the member-list -

• 4770 Members before this week's prune was run. (254 new accounts since last week)
• 30 Day Prune has removed 199 dead accounts. (37 more were removed this Prune)
• This leaves our count at 4571 Members after the prune.
• ~426 Concurrent users online at 20:30 EST (+3.1% from previous)

Updated stats on Bans and Blacklist -

• 748 Discord bans (+55 new from previous)
• 423 accounts in total are now Blacklisted by @minnowsupport (+30 from previous)

But, what does it mean? -

There wasn't much movement in any direction on any of the stats this week. I am not sure yet if this indicates a stagnation, but I am hearing that the general stats for steemit are matching fairly well with this. So we are growing about as fast as Steemit is for now.

In summary:

This week, the new ability of me as Team Lead to directly make changes on the @minnowsupport account (as detailed in this post), has made things faster. I am now able to quickly handle any abusers and slow them down on attempts to register new accounts and get an upvote off via the bots before I can prevent it. Between this and increased cooperation with @Steemcleaners, I feel we are really getting a handle on people attempting to abuse our free service here.

If you have any questions, please contact me on MSP or MSP-Probation

Thanks -

Discordiant

MSP Moderator and Anti-Abuse Team Leader

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