Witness Update: Introducing @mack-bot!

Great news! Abusers and spamers must be punishes, and Steemit deserves to be a cleaner place. Thank you for doing this hard work. Steemcleaners, Spaminators + mack-bot - it's a hefty bunch of work. My respect!

One month ago I opened "new" and caught 73 such assholes in 1 hour. You can check my old post and maybe find some new names for your list. https://steemit.com/steemit/@erikaflynn/new-abuse-on-steemit-tons-of-meaningless-posts-from-new-users

Resteemed and voted for you as a witness.

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patrice (65) · 7 years ago

I found 490 new accounts from that group yesterday. I'll probably get some more today when they get done posting. @mack-bot has been busy already today.

Thanks!

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

Mack will lay down the smack!

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countrygirl (66) · 7 years ago

Hey @patrice - what are farming accounts or comment farms?? How can we identify them? Thanks.

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lukestokes (75) · 7 years ago

Very cool! Many users of Steemit.com are getting fed up with bot comments and something like this could really help. I was thinking of doing something similar with a "mute list" of sorts which people could crowdsource and use to ignore the noise.

At the same time, I wonder if muting accounts is enough as muted accounts could be voting up their own comments to take from the rewards pool without providing any value and it would be harder to spot if they are mostly muted. Either way, I love seeing innovations like this working to improve things. Well done!

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patrice (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you. I'm working on streamlining some things for @spaminator & @steemcleaners that will get the community projects involved in preventing rewards being paid out to accounts that post spam & other abuse.

The service bots are another problem but I've been on the fence and I really just encourage the community to flag them if they don't like them and upvote them if they do. I don't feel that it should be up to one person or group to decide what is or isn't beneficial to the community in that regard.

I'm going to publish a post under @spaminator soon on the importance of community participation in flagging as a way to provide feedback to bot owners.

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denmarkguy (76) · 7 years ago

Cool! Glad to see all these tools come into being... thanks for all the work you do to keep things "clean" around here.

I imagine (like cheetah) that upvotes from the community are welcomed to help support the venture and give it more "teeth."

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patrice (65) · 7 years ago

Absolutely! I'm not much of a writer but after the 14 days and I stop commenting I'll find time to post a picture of the real "Mack" on occasion.

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personz (66) · 7 years ago

I didn't know you were a witness! Voting for you now 😁

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neuromancer (51) · 7 years ago

Patrice is the gift that keeps on giving. Retrofitting health monitoring & response services, liaising with the community, tending appeals & other Discord channels - Zoe's lucky to get a walk at all!

Thanks for everything you do for us, to you and the whole team @ spamminator & SC. I don't do interpretive dance, so to celebrate, here instead, an artistic impression, illustrated in trope, to communicate the net effect of Mack-Bot through image & humour (I hope); a-hem...

mack-bot
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Result

do the right thing

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the-commentator (53) · 7 years ago

We do know her works off the Records, i often see people bombarding her with messages and i know how hard it would be to have time for Chitty-chat.

I have a tiny power but i still upvoted and Resteemed with a follow!

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guiltyparties (70) · 7 years ago

Great job Patrice. I'll add @mack-bot to my highlighter algorithm so nothing flagged gets through, although I doubt that either the ssg or vets communities have comment farmers.

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rakkasan84 (67) · 7 years ago

Can you explain to me why steemcleaners has decided to downvote our Veteran's bot @shadow3scalpel after being approved by you? You are hurting the veteran's community and haven't given a proper warning or anything.