Can You Flag One Account of this Botnet Farming Scheme?: Spaminators Needs Your Help Right Now & You'll Be Rewarded

nikethemutt (53) · 7 years ago (edited)

Hi Stellabelle,
I blasted it with all that I had. Glad to help.

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4 votes

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

it sucks we have to use our SP on this type of shit, but.............if we don't get this under control now, we'll have to collectively decide to do another Hardfork, which would go back to how it was before, when self upvoting and farming schemes were not profitable....basically going back to kindergarten.

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journeyoflife (67) · 7 years ago

As a fellow Stemian , who believes in justice and fairness , you have my full attention in this matter and props to you for making this platform a better place . Already on it

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barrydutton (74) · 7 years ago

Amen, I am off to do #16 in that grouping right now JOL.

I adjusted my artwork tonite, in my last post just up --- can you tell me if it is OK?? Like, does it show up fine and really readable in newsfeed as the primary image????

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aclenx (54) · 7 years ago

I'm willing to help too :)

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

here, I found another one you can do: https://steemit.com/@statavkj/comments

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andre-ager (60) · 7 years ago

I flagged 3 comment on this one

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justcallmemyth (55) · 7 years ago

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4 votes

gikitiki (60) · 7 years ago

Do any of them show any transactions in their wallets that show who the head of the snake is?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yeah, i think @sherlockholmes investigated this...let me check shortly...

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aclenx (54) · 7 years ago

Done already, It's from a russian language.

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charles1 (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

Was ready to take action now...my flagging hand is as strong as a Lion ...however all the fake accounts are zero...bring in more for more spanking
hungry?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks, much appreciated.

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journeyoflife (67) · 7 years ago

It's a pleasure !

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barrydutton (74) · 7 years ago

Mine is going now, do you think you can UV my post just up few mins ago on my page if you are voting? It would help me and not cost any extra LOL!!!

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

just make sure and tell us which account you wiped out.

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journeyoflife (67) · 7 years ago (edited)

#13 is done , my voting power is not high , but I'm still trying to do all of them as an effort . Can't completely wipe them but bringing them all down.

Team work feels good

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yeah, i guess this is humans vs. bots (controlled by crappy humans)

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torico (63) · 7 years ago

there's a dystopian novel plot in there somewhere...

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yes, is this what the sci-fi books were talking of? or is the steem algorithm so bad that it allows such automated farming schemes? Pre-Hardfork 19 this farming operation would not be lucrative. It looks like Dan was right. Humans really cannot be trusted to do the right thing even when given the tools for free.

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torico (63) · 7 years ago

part of it is a matter of trust. people are afraid to believe in a good thing, they think the only way to make money is a scheme.

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barrydutton (74) · 7 years ago

Wrote you back in a couple places to let you know, have a good nite Stella. I do appreciate a vote if you find time, I was just checking replies / comments etc and my posts now before I sign off for the nite.

Sleep well.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

You know how much I like people asking me to vote for their posts right?

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em3 (60) · 7 years ago

Just as much as a pebble in your shoe?
😅

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barrydutton (74) · 7 years ago

I actually did not think you would mind given you said you were UV people who flagged things to help out, and given we know each other but that's fine.

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theblindsquirl (57) · 7 years ago

I hit about 15-20 of them.

Not exactly what I would have preferred to spend my newly leased SP on but those are pretty ridiculous.

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5 votes

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

I feel the same way, but if we all do a little bit, we can make a huge difference.

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theblindsquirl (57) · 7 years ago

I'll let my VP charge back up and go after some more tomorrow.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

ah no problem. a little bit helps...

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whatsup (75) · 7 years ago

I've got rahtmanshin.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

You wiped out $1 from a spam botnet and received $6 for your work. Hmmm......it's way more profitable to help people. This is the real lesson in all this insanity of botnet upvote farms.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks. Take my upvote.

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whatsup (75) · 7 years ago

Thanks!, all rewards have been removed from that account.

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lyndsaybowes (71) · 7 years ago

Great initiative! I'll start on #16 right now.

PS <3 You don't have to upvote my post, it's all good, I want to help!

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steempowerpics (69) · 7 years ago

thanks for the backup on #16 - i was trying but didn't have enough to get them to $0

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lyndsaybowes (71) · 7 years ago

Ooh I see you there now! Great work you got it wayyyyy down!

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

good job!

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Yes i do! It's more profitable to help than to destroy steemit.

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lyndsaybowes (71) · 7 years ago

Ooh trust me, this is bringing me a LOT of joy, I'm so glad to be able to stop these people from stealing from the rewards pool, every flag gives me satisfaction! I was lucky enough to have been delegated some SP from a really kind Steemian, and it feels good to be using it for GOOD!!

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

oh there is much more than this......if you go to that link you can see the full list of 57.

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lyndsaybowes (71) · 7 years ago

It's truly sickening to see the rewards on some of them, so glad everyone is working together to stop these thieves.

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sirstacksalot (63) · 7 years ago

I started at the bottom with @raxe and worked my way up.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks!

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em3 (60) · 7 years ago

#13 (My lucky #)
I hit the top 3 comments at 100%. Nocked them down to 3 cents. About 6 more comments to go.
I'll try and do more later, but down to 60% and need to charge.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

ok thanks...I can help with that.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

i finished it off...thanks.

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fiveboringgames (65) · 7 years ago

Glad to help, flagged about 15 posts by @Tsyur. There are still more if anyone wants to go at it.

As for my reward, no need for a blind upvote, although I'd love a glance at my blogs and if anything takes your fancy a upvote, resteem or follow would be very much appreciated, but as i said only if they interest you.

Would be happy to donate sp to some downvote bot for use in cases like this

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

ok I'm thinking that you can delegate SP to the @spaminator account. That will become the official one dealing with this.....and I hope some programmers see this thread and decide that bot vs. bot is better....but there will always be some manual purging, as I think we all gain community props....

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fiveboringgames (65) · 7 years ago

ok, looking into that account now. Am currently trying to make my own bot to combat spam. But it is also my project to learn programming so it will take me a while.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

@sadkitten is programmed to downvote the botnet comment rings....and it is working....I would guess that last night it didn't have a chance to catch up with all the abuse....there's a lot of it, but I just looked and it was taking care of the newer accounts spam. look at Steemd to find out the activity: https://steemd.com/@sadkitten

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

actually, contact @personz as that's the person who is programming @sadkitten anti-spam bot. You might consider working together, or get advice so that you don't double up efforts, overlap things.

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fiveboringgames (65) · 7 years ago

yea will do that, if nothing else I can send on 500 SP delegation

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deirdyweirdy (61) · 7 years ago

Ok I've done unartenof (number 10)and I'm off to bed

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks

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steempowerpics (69) · 7 years ago (edited)

i did a bunch on /@pantsevelsh/comments but i dont have enough to get them to $0 :(

i got a lot of them down to .01
cut a bunch on #15 /@shemf/comments in half - but not to $0, started from bottom ones about to payout first.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

ok thanks, i'll do the rest.

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steempowerpics (69) · 7 years ago

I'm am so happy you are a leader in this fight. I wish I had more SP to help.

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abookworm (46) · 7 years ago

Me too. I was helping with #15, but still a ways to go.

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fingolfin (61) · 7 years ago

13 flags dropped on this one https://steemit.com/@tsyur/comments

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thank you

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https://steemd.com/strait/@raxe/remark#@raxe/re-raxe-remark-20170422t90430138z

fingolfin (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

Obviously might be a bit bigger than 56 accounts if some of these comments now have 4700 votes lol

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howtostartablog (65) · 7 years ago

I flagged a few by @valowat, but i can see that most of these comments are already not visible, or has reached 7 days.

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celsius100 (54) · 7 years ago

Thanks @stellabelle for the help. Big ups for taking the time and SP. With your number of followers, hopefully we can take care of this tonight. I just did another one (#13). I will take care of some more also. One day at a time people......eventually they will learn this is not the place for that crap.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Yeah, I think I just created a new job for people......everyone who helps gets a 100% upvote from me! (only problem, is that my SP gets drained really fast!)

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

i saw your work earlier...thanks.

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celsius100 (54) · 7 years ago

7 and 8 are done (except for a penny on a few comments)

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celsius100 (54) · 7 years ago

17 done (1 penny on a few comments).....and my SP is done for the night. Keep it up everyone.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks

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gergi6a (50) · 7 years ago

ok ,let's begin the extermination :)

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

which number are you doing?

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gergi6a (50) · 7 years ago

started with 6

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fproductions (66) · 7 years ago

I got https://steemit.com/@unartenof/comments

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks!

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barrydutton (74) · 7 years ago

I did #54 en masse just now --- https://steemit.com/@shumishum/comments

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buckydurddle (70) · 7 years ago

I got https://steemit.com/@tsapk/comments I am new to this so I hope I red-flagged the comments correctly. Glad to help. Cheers

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks so much! I can't do it on my own, so I appreciate your efforts

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

oh nice, your rep just went waaaay up.

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buckydurddle (70) · 7 years ago

Wow!! I am VERY new to Steemit, so I don't know all the nuts-n-bolts yet. But that jump looks impressive :) Thank you very much @stellabelle

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

basically, every noob needs to realize: your reputation is more important than anything else. When you help people in here, hopefully someone who has a higher rep will take notice and reward you. That's how you grow your influence. Ignore the vote buying crap. It actually doesn't work very well.

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buckydurddle (70) · 7 years ago

Understood. In my initial reading I am seeing that reputation increases through (in layman's terms) good old-fashioned community building - post good content and support others who do the same. It is exciting to see the growth of niche interest communities growing in here. I think the success of a environment like this will, in no small part, be first driven by the passion of champions in many niche communities: photography, politics, cars, stamp collecting, etc. This will pave the way for the general population whose interests lie in these niche communities. Once they come on board and take ownership of these healthy communities Steemit will grow as we have seen other mainstream SM environments.

The ramblings of a noob :) :)

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

You're at the first layer, because you're a noob. You're from mainstream where only surface details are understood. Those who stick around longer will get to the second layer. That's when the magic happens.

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buckydurddle (70) · 7 years ago

Very exciting indeed. I am looking forward to digging deeper.

Thanks again for all the work you are doing. I hope I can contribute in some small way as I learn more about this environment.

BTW. Decentraland crowd sale is beginning today. Been following for quite some time now. That is another environment I am so looking forward to exploring.

Cheers,
buckydurddle

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mattclarke (68) · 7 years ago

@tsapk is having a bad day. He's down to a rep of 13, and I've taken all of his comment rewards.
My solution to this rubbish is here

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cloudspyder (59) · 7 years ago

Check this one sir, https://steemit.com/@raxe/comments need to be taken care off.

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mattclarke (68) · 7 years ago

Most of them were already done by others. The one with 4700 upvotes I hit with 100% flag, and got it down to $1.80.
All the others are zero now.

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cloudspyder (59) · 7 years ago

Wow, it works! Thank you sir @mattclarke!

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mattclarke (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

I killed off @teleyuck too, and @priochoir and @tyimashi from the extended list.
With almost 10,000 SP a 10% flag is enough to zero out the 9 cent reward on each post.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks for doing that.

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mattclarke (68) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion, and for destroying your vp.
You're really good for steemit.

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markvance (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

I got #12 Four 100% flags. Oops, I figured out I could get the posts to 0 with only 35% power so I did 6 or 7 more!

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

here take my $4.95

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markvance (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks very much! I will try to do more when my SP goes back up.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thank you!

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coinkingz (56) · 7 years ago

I flagged the first 10 comments from this one:
https://steemit.com/@shemf/comments

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coinkingz (56) · 7 years ago

that is #15

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steempowerpics (69) · 7 years ago

we did some damage on #15 together :-)

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coinkingz (56) · 7 years ago

That is cool. Hey @stellabelle, what about this bot rush? $70 on a comment:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@affiliate/re-berniesanders-the-asian-steem-scheme-thank-you-ned-and-abit-for-rewarding-and-delegating-your-sp-to-empower-the-asians-to-line-their-pockets-20170814t143007986z

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

I am staying out of that because it involves whales....

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coinkingz (56) · 7 years ago

Understandable, but it makes more damage to the community, so who should act?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

anyone is free to act, to put forth their opinion. If something bothers you, then do something about it. However, we are unable to change other people, so think wisely about how to make things better. I am putting my energy on automated upvote/comment farming bot schemes because i think they pose the greatest threat right now....human-generated plagiarism is also important, but automoated operations are more problematic and vast.

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coinkingz (56) · 7 years ago

Yes, but if you check the votes there, you can find a lot of badger* accounts, like @badger3155, and I think they are bots. that was my reason.

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richhersey (52) · 7 years ago

Here to do my part. #WarOnSpam

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

cool thanks so much for helping out

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abookworm (46) · 7 years ago

@stellabelle
#15
My dad asked me to help out...(@em3)
I have low sp, but helped flag 10 I think.
No need for reward, I didn't do much, but helped what I can!

Thank you for helping make STEEMIT a better place!

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4 votes

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thank you! every bit helps!

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azurejasper (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

This is crazy. Thanks for the big effort you and @spaminator, and everyone else who is battling these bots!

edit: I just went though one entire comments thread and took out all pending rewards - this really sucks, but is nice to see the community working together to weed it out!

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks for helping!

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contextualize (56) · 7 years ago (edited)

Just hit about 15 of #8's comments.

Resteemed.

Bad-bots!!

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esotericstephen (36) · 7 years ago

I'm new here, how to flag a comment?

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago

There's a tiny flag icon in the top right corner.

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esotericstephen (36) · 7 years ago

found it. go yapetrash

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks for your help

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

i'm not sure if your SP is high enough to remove rewards....try it though.

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esotericstephen (36) · 7 years ago

I think it's working. Got yapetrash and trutsinyark as far as I can tell. Hope it helps !

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yeah, thank you

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bodygems (37) · 7 years ago (edited)

I intend to be a team player!. I'm working on it. #16 Done!!!

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago (edited)

I would like to help but I'm afraid my flags won't mean very much. :(

Anyway... I flagged one comment from each of the list whos comments are not at 0 payout.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks, every bit helps actually

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nenad-ristic (63) · 7 years ago

I flagged a bit of #56, but it did not seem to be doing much good, the first couple of flags did a bit of damage, but I seem to have run out of voting power now :(

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steempowerpics (69) · 7 years ago

yeah those ones are big payouts, i didn't make much of a dent either

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gikitiki (60) · 7 years ago

I hit every comment in this one, but it can use some more. https://steemit.com/strait/@raxe/remark#@raxe/re-raxe-remark-20170378t155043105z

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torico (63) · 7 years ago

hahah post was hidden due to low ratings.. cant get into it

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gikitiki (60) · 7 years ago

Unfortunately, the commenters will still get a payout. :-(

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steempowerpics (69) · 7 years ago

click "show" then beat down on the comments

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donniedeluxe (49) · 7 years ago

Great cause, happy to bring what I can to the table, hitting #9

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mostafa1 (48) · 7 years ago

Just flagged 11,12,13 we need to get rid of those nasty bots driven by crappy people. Glad to help @stellabelle

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benjojo (70) · 7 years ago

Great work @stellabelle I got a handful of the remaining accounts. I hope that's all of them. Until next time! :)

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

obviously, if more bots were programmed to do this job........any takers out there for this that you know of?

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benjojo (70) · 7 years ago

That's what delegated power is for. How much massive SP is on the side-lines, wasted when it could be finding an army of white hat hackers and goodbots? We need SP holders thinking long term, getting off the fence or the pool-take. Some organisation and a sustained marketing strategy targeting the large SP holders is what we need I think.

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kaykunoichi (62) · 7 years ago

Have done # 7 and some of # 8. Will be back for more muahahaha

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pilcrow (55) · 7 years ago

Will do! The ones you listed are already flagged enough, I'll take some from spaminator's post. Great stuff, we should do this more often.

I drop links in the abuse chatroom daily but unfortunately I don't have the voting Power or followers to do something like this by myself. It would be nice to utilize the power of the community more often this way.

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14 votes

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yeah, i am thinking of making this kind of post a regular thing as it bonds us together, plus gives actual rewards (upvote money) as a thank you......

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mj2307 (37) · 7 years ago

This is why this Steemit rules. Dropping flags like it's my job. Thank you.

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nepd (66) · 7 years ago

I gave #44 a boot.

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jjb777 (56) · 7 years ago

There is still comments there from @raxe
Ill try to flag some.

Is there not an easier solution to this? I mean every system with users has/should have functionality to disable/deactivate users by some admin.

@stellabelle thanks for doing this
J

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14 votes

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Steemit does not ban users. And there's already one bot that is cancelling out the rewards, I am hoping that a programmer will be inspired to build another bot to do this....

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jjb777 (56) · 7 years ago

Ok. Thanks for the info. J

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mehdibca (64) · 7 years ago (edited)

Most have around 11 - 12 hours remaining, as of now :

Let's finish them

0.08 on average remaining per comment
https://steemit.com/@unovoksa/comments
https://steemit.com/@samohagamova/comments
https://steemit.com/@olntsevch/comments
https://steemit.com/@vedme/comments
https://steemit.com/@peren/comments
https://steemit.com/@roma.grinchev/comments
https://steemit.com/@tjanasitno/comments
https://steemit.com/@shaff/comments
https://steemit.com/@valeroomich/comments
0.09 on average remaining per comment:
https://steemit.com/@shamg/comments
https://steemit.com/@zeriodt/comments
https://steemit.com/@ucherana/comments
https://steemit.com/@tsyur/comments
https://steemit.com/@sevvolga/comments
https://steemit.com/@zalaraeva/comments
0.05 on average remaining per comment:
https://steemit.com/@olosofja/comments

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mehdibca (64) · 7 years ago

Tried my best, hopefully others will be able to finish it off. Almost there!!
Screen Shot 2017-08-17 at 4.27.27 AM.png

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks so much for posting the others.....
my sp is low because of upvoting everyone who helped to flag this botnet.

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mehdibca (64) · 7 years ago

Thanks for doing the research and letting us know, I will be glad to flag spammers whenever needed (even though my SP is extremely low for now) :)

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claudiop63 (66) · 7 years ago

Hi. With my limited voting power, all I could do was to kill some stuff from @raxe
Innocent question. ... the @steemit account holds more than 70 million SP.... could they not
do this job more efficiently than ourselves. .?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

there is a bot already programmed for this, but I would guess that it's overloaded. Just seeing the enormity of this issue, I am hoping that programmers step up to do this work instead of us. However, the community needs awareness of the problem, before we decide as a community what to do. Without awareness, people won't understand. You are free to contact @ned and ask him directly. However, we are a decentralized community, and not run by a central authority. That's the main difference between here and Facebook. In here, we have to come up with our own solutions to problems, and work to solve them, in a way that is community-driven.

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arckrai (62) · 7 years ago (edited)

Jeez there are so many spammers it is crazy!
I just went through and flagged a few of them.
Great to see what we as a community can do to get rid of these spammers.
Annoying how people have to come and devalue the platform with spam. I don't know what they are trying to get out of.
All they do is ruin their steemit account and be reset back to the bottom.
I've started to follow @spaminator

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks for the help.

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justcallmemyth (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

Went over to the other page and hit 56 (it still had 2-3 in $1-$4 range)
52 I think I cleared up the last.(may have been a few with 1 cent left)
50 I hit all I could, but still some $0.02 - $0.08 left, but I was loosing strength fast!

Great job to spaminators and to you for helping clean Steemit up!!!!
Huge Love and Yunk Hugs!!!

Checkout my Newest Blog Post for FREE GIFS to all in THANKS FOR HELPING OUT!!!

HERE

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therneau (58) · 7 years ago (edited)

Flagged this one
https://steemit.com/@yarozdyach/comments
This bot is still at 33 rep... FLAG IT!!!
I also don't know if this post will help https://steemit.com/steemit/@mobbs/spam-spam-spam-spam-spam-will-it-ever-end-tl-dr-no#@mobbs/re-therneau-re-mobbs-spam-spam-spam-spam-spam-will-it-ever-end-tl-dr-no-20170813t084633298z
The bots seem to be ruining Steemit. There must be a better solution. Alternatively, it should be every Steemians duty to actively participate in flagging on a list such as yours, perhaps weekly or so... depending on how deep the rot is. Edit: I understand that Steemit is about freedom for all but raping the system, it needs to STOP. Your willy must be chopped off before you can find a hole!!

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apsu (65) · 7 years ago

Didn't read through everything so I just flagged some of those with highest current rep, just in case this helps :)

$3.12

apsu (65) · 7 years ago

Or no, wait. I can't have any effect on them as the payout is too soon.

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cyrixboy (48) · 7 years ago

I flagged all comments in numbers #6, #7, #8 & #9. As a recent victim of fraud (Recently posted about my loss) I felt the need to hit a few of these..

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aclenx (54) · 7 years ago (edited)

I've Flagged all the comments in #9

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neiraurdaneta (59) · 7 years ago (edited)

I'm going to help them bother me that practice and in some of my posts appear I do not give them flag because I'm scared that as they are many give me flag to my post #13. Take the other list # 1 my sp is weak but manage to give you flags a few more tomorrow continue to help

$2.78

neiraurdaneta (59) · 7 years ago

take the other list # 56 but i have sp weak ;(

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richq11 (72) · 7 years ago

I'll start at the bottom and work my way up... I will also RS! Here's another ripoff you can add @amarvaran

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

i think it's taken care of already....but thanks!

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richq11 (72) · 7 years ago

I noticed, I couldn't find anything to flag!

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stievricard (43) · 7 years ago

breathe in your soul you beach on my sea
This heart's inward is a holy love
My intention to your death
Loving just you
Thirst of my soul I love
My soul mate me you
To die I want to be with you
This is my point
My soulmate wants you
One love to death separates
You and I are one
Love each other
After my sad sadness
Life is now yours

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15 votes

yefeth (14) · 7 years ago

I'm on eSteem at the moment and having trouble with loading those to mark them. I'll try later when I get on a desktop computer.

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12 votes

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

ok thank you.

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yefeth (14) · 7 years ago

I went through and flagged several of them until I got the message: "Voting weight is too small, please accumulate more voting power or steem power." I guess I'm done for the night.

$4.58

gduran (70) · 7 years ago

I don't really think flagging them will help, they will just use create new ones and you will be wasting your time, I think the solution has already been given by various people, just use a captcha to be able to vote, that would stop the bots.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

this is not a longterm solution. There is already a bot, @sadkitten who is programmed to flag these botnet comments....I am thinking that many more bots need to be programmed to do this work. Or we go back to a different algorithm like we had before. ....

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torico (63) · 7 years ago

this raxe guy, isn't there a way to just block /freeze or ban his account so he loses everything?

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bryan-imhoff (66) · 7 years ago

Nope. That's actually one of the main benefits of Steem. Decentralized, censorship resistant. Everything is community driven. It's up to us to make this behavior unprofitable and drive this type of "investor" away.

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dylanhobalart (65) · 7 years ago

First time I flagged a comment or post, thanks for this @stellabella. Anonymous accounts are one of the best things about steemit, but certainly not for this purpose. Freedom of speech and writing a bot program are two different things!

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coinkingz (56) · 7 years ago

Me too. It's like a community event now, Purge night on Steem :)

$4.74

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

omg, that's epic. PURGE NIGHT!!!! I think i'll be naming it that from now on.

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bodygems (37) · 7 years ago

Purging is Good!!!

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charles1 (68) · 7 years ago

I think the job has been done before I wake from sleep . I was actually ready to kill the bot scammer with my lion flagging!!!
You have my upvote, always.

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davidwilliams (48) · 7 years ago

I worked on #12

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davidwilliams (48) · 7 years ago

Just spent some more time on
https://steemit.com/@unovoksa/comments

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gamer00 (67) · 7 years ago

I joined the effort and tried to do some additional damage to the bots' reputation. Too bad I soon have work to attend to so I can't do more right now.

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eman123 (8) · 7 years ago

Was ready to take action now...my flagging hand is as strong as a Lion ...however all the fake accounts are zero...bring in more for more spanking

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captaintj (53) · 7 years ago

I do not understand how to help, but I will resteem this post because spam is never a good idea (unless you are really hungry, and even then it needs to be used in moderation)

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patrice (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the help! Great idea!

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barrydutton (74) · 7 years ago

Update, all the ones I clicked on from 16 and working upwards are all flagged out really well, so I am going to the main list you gave now -- and picking another one off the list.....

#WarOnSpam

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richhersey (52) · 7 years ago

I noticed the same thing. I went ahead and flagged a bunch of comments that were not hidden yet. They were already at $0.00 but perhaps we can drive their reputation down further.

#WarOnSpam

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barrydutton (74) · 7 years ago

I have not flagged much on here, at all, til the last few weeks, with the #WarOnSpam

So I am having to learn how to get the most out of my flags and do it properly LOL.

I hate flagging, unless it is for good reasons like this but @steemit inc --- needs to put something in place and soon, or this place is in big big trouble from a business perspective, IMHO.

And other ones LOL

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dontstopmenow (68) · 7 years ago

Did all I could with @raxe

I like your attitude @stellabelle ! Great work!

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trevorlyman (54) · 7 years ago

I voted down this guy. https://steemit.com/@zalaraeva/comments Not sure where he started but most are down to zero now.
Thanks for this. I think it's really needed!

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finleyexp (60) · 7 years ago

My SP is too little! I added some flags to this one: https://steemit.com/ditty/@tsyur/nerves#@tsyur/re-tsyur-nerves-20170431t92241520z

I thought flags wouldn't work after the 6 1/2 day mark, like upvotes don't work. Am I wrong here?

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cloudspyder (59) · 7 years ago

I found a lot here https://steemit.com/@raxe/comments that need to be taken off too, I already flag some

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seba1342 (25) · 7 years ago

This community requires real users to function effectively, thanks for your post I will be going through this list and flagging their comments.
Hopefully if enough of us do this it will help weaken the spam/bot user accounts.

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torico (63) · 7 years ago

are there any others that need doing? i have some free time..

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gikitiki (60) · 7 years ago

Holy cow. 4600 up votes on this one.
https://steemit.com/strait/@raxe/remark#@raxe/re-raxe-remark-20170378t155043105z

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steempowerpics (69) · 7 years ago

i see it #56 on that list - i feel powerless :-/

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gikitiki (60) · 7 years ago

Yes, that was #56, I should have specified.

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bigbear (68) · 7 years ago

I stellabelle I did a few for you, this is so awfull we all work so hard and they just take. We only have one computer and my husband so badly wants to join but apparently you can only do one per computer. How do they get these acounts.

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jesse2you (54) · 7 years ago

upvoted resteemed
Thank you.
Namaste

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irfansardar (48) · 7 years ago

Nice Post on the current issue ! I don't know why people do that just for own benefit to create spam while steemit is a great opportunity for all,I saw some people have many accounts and when they comment or publish post they Upvote themselves from many accounts ,My words to those people why not 1 account with quality content will gives you more worth then 100 accounts.Keep the Steemit Clean

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yes, exactly.

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improv (67) · 7 years ago

It looks like everything has been taken care of.

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steempowerpics (69) · 7 years ago

#56 on that list /@raxe/comments needs a beat down - it has some high $$$ comments getting ready to pay out

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thebul (38) · 7 years ago

I'm new to this. I just flag one of them to do what you need?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

did you end up flagging any?

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nuelapex (39) · 7 years ago

I just did it!

I followed, and upvoted you!. Kindly do the same

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dajohns1420 (61) · 7 years ago

I think they're all taken care of

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steempowerpics (69) · 7 years ago

hidden post, but comments have massive payout... https://steemit.com/strait/@raxe/remark

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celsius100 (54) · 7 years ago

https://steemit.com/spaminator/@spaminator/56-active-spam-accounts-added-8-14-2018
That is the link to the list. There are some left to do on this list......

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barrydutton (74) · 7 years ago

I just gave this a full power UV for you now, I will go do the last in the group,

16 https://steemit.com/@pantsevelsh/comments

Now --- I've been flagging what I can. My new post just went up moments ago so that is nice of you Stella!!!

$0.00

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks for the help!

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barrydutton (74) · 7 years ago

NP sister.

My comments here to the fellow a couple mins ago, stand also.

Steemit needs to deal with this.

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janeeliza (47) · 7 years ago (edited)

So all I have to do is flag comments ? @stellabelle

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yes, click on one of those to see the comments.

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janeeliza (47) · 7 years ago (edited)

done with 12 and 6 im not sure what exactly i'm doin , just flag any comment there :D

$4.17

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thanks

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yeah, you just flag all the stupid, pointless automated comments. Thanks

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janeeliza (47) · 7 years ago

you are welcome , I'm happy to be useful :)

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alaqrab (60) · 7 years ago

thanks for letting me know. People robbing the reward pool like this are devaluing the price. I went to @spaminator s page and took out #s 21, 22, 48
glad to help out.

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

It looks like the community took care of these before I got here. Great work. I'm going to look at delegating some sp to those who deal with the spam

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

ok that would be cool...can i contact you in steemit chat? Best thing would be to delegate some SP to the @spaminator account.

$0.07

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

I'm steevc there too. I'll sort it when I'm at my pc

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tngflx (61) · 7 years ago

Does this even works? Steemit didnt even care....

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

We are all Steemians, and we do what we can to improve this platform...which is actually a home for many...

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alao (64) · 7 years ago

Seemvoter.com Let's you set up rules but they only do post not comments.

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eitsky (50) · 7 years ago

Went to help out but they've already been downvoted into oblivion!

I want to get rid of spam and bots like this too but will this really help us win the battle? We are treating the symptoms and not the overall problem. What can be done to fix it permanently?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

well, before hardfork 19, Dan had assumed that if we do linear rewards (like they are set now), that this kind of abuse would happen (it is). For nearly the first year, smaller accounts were not able to give rewards hardly at all. Most minnows were not even able to give 1 cent. You had to accumulate a lot of SP in order to give rewards. All that changed with HF 19, and now we see that abuse is happening, just as Dan predicted. So, do we go back to a different alogrithm, making all of the little minnows suffer again in a state of powerlessness due to farming bot oeprations like this? What is the solution?

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eitsky (50) · 7 years ago

I honestly don't know but was hoping to spark a discussion. Maybe that hard grind is necessary to promote original content and less spam on the site though. There would be less incentive for spammers to even come here. The existing users with strong voting power would essentially reward the users who are actually contributing.

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edthecanadian (63) · 7 years ago (edited)

I did 19 through 27, but they need finishing off. Wow there's so many of them! Keep us informed so I can come back when I'm charged up again. 🇨🇦

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chelsea88 (64) · 7 years ago (edited)

@stellabelle when i started here over two months ago, i was extremely unhappy about this account: @ steemmaster
This individual posted many (imo) copy /paste jobs. I also had counted over 22 blogs in a 7hr period at one point. When i first started, i noticed a lot of inconsistencies I this persons blogs. Then i noticed a particularly upsetting copy/paste job suggesting diabetics exercise in the morning before eating. Which as a health care professional greatly bothered me because could be very dangerous for a diabetic. I countered him and was told, in more or less words, "it was not his opinion just the article"
At the time as a tiny tiny minnow i didn't know what to do about this spam other than just be bothered about it. If you scroll this this users" content "you can see at one point the same post about coffee in rapid succession. Also posts practically same post about the syndrome causing young people to look old several times. Tell me what you think about this, I've been bothered by this user for quite some time and they've managed to get a rep score of 57 somehow

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eurogee (65) · 7 years ago

Criminals are always on the move but thank God for great steemians like you @stellabelle.

@eurogee

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eavaryan (43) · 7 years ago

I would like to know where to report someone who is copy-pasting posts and passing them off as their own.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

In Steemit Chat, there is a channel steemit abuse links. Drop it there. thanks

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eavaryan (43) · 7 years ago

Thanks. I flagged all comments on accounts 6,7,8,9. Don't know if it'll make a difference. cheers!

$4.33

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

thank you

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eavaryan (43) · 7 years ago

wow thanks @stellabelle that is generous of you!

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lyndsaybowes (71) · 7 years ago

#15 Now

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lyndsaybowes (71) · 7 years ago

Wiped out.

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rt395 (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

Working on the 56. Got some of @shatilist . This is going to get really bad, really fast unless something is done beyond just the community flagging them.

Will update this as I go.

@zalaraeva has several .09 posts .
@yarinbrat still has a few. My flag power is only -.03

Ok, I'm done. Killed all my voting power. Wish I could do more.

@roma.grinchev still needs nuking.
@valeroomich still needs nuking.
@olntsevch still needs nuking.
@orgcamaro still needs nuking.
@samohagamova still needs nuking.
@stasfourich still needs nuking.
@subvekorob still needs nuking.
@yfura still needs nuking.
@shlykovs still needs nuking.
@stabencko still needs nuking.
@sumobrus still needs nuking.
@yarozdyach still needs nuking.

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greatdabu (51) · 7 years ago (edited)

I nuked the first three from this list (2 of them had alot of .08 and .09)
@roma.grinchev
@valeroomich
@olntsevch

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cornholio (50) · 7 years ago

Are you threatening me!?

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benjojo (70) · 7 years ago

I got the ones in the middle :)

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aboutyourbiz (54) · 7 years ago

I hit @stabencko and @yarozdyach but they're on 7 days already

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inber (76) · 7 years ago

Joined. By the way... As a russian native speaker I also must admit that in every of these (in the posts) there's just a set of unrelated words...

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

it's created by a bot program

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inber (76) · 7 years ago

Oh, that's why...

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machhour (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

Great post , we have to do that to improve & protect this great community
cleaning time:)

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