I create at least a dozen accounts a week for legit content creators (usually journalists with a decent social media following) that have been waiting on their registration for weeks with no response. Seeing the faucet mass register obvious bot accounts is infuriating and makes me wonder why I bother. Fix this bullshit STINC.
RE: Steemit creates accounts for scammers... and nobody else?
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Steemit creates accounts for scammers... and nobody else?
One has to assume these are created via an automated signup process. If there is any manual checking involved then one or more people at Steemit Inc are totally incapable of doing their job and should be fired.
If this is automated then there appears to be no verification in place at all.
I am no coder but I do know that it would not be at all difficult to code in some level of basic checking to prevent this sort of abuse.
... check if NEW ACCOUNT NAME is like PREVIOUS ACCOUNT NAMES created in last 24 hours
... IF YES halt registration and send for manual inspections
I am sure a coded version of that would be not beyond the capabilities of the crack team of developers at Steemit Inc. I suspect even the Intern could handle this.
Or maybe they just don't care...
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You are correct, it should not even be a problem to discuss, so easy it is to fix. Yet, here we are.
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"one or more people at Steemit Inc are totally incapable of doing their job and should be fired."
Or they are in on it.
Just pointing out the possibilities, for the sake of completeness.
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That would be worse still...
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I think we need new users to bid at the end of the month, via second price auctions, to keep their delegations.
Otherwise the delegation ends. Automatic, but should give effective outcomes.
Even if they circle upvote, the circle eventually comes to an end, compared to real content creators. Relative rates don't match up, those kinds of things might be solutions?
Should get rid of a lot of the scammers and spammers.
Thoughts?
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Interesting idea...
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Same here, my friend was awaiting approval for a month. In the end I bought her an account. Next day she got a letter that the request got approved. Another one waited for a week. Me? I got lucky to be approved in the same day, otherwise I might not ever come here.
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I have created accounts for people who gave up waiting, but not nearly that many. Many never receive their account. The amount of serial spam accounts approved is infuriating. How Dart registered 21,000+ accounts through the Steemit faucet blows my mind.
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If they just want inflated activity numbers to show to potential investors, and they know potential investors don't give a shit about actually looking deeper into things, then there would be very obvious reasons why they would let it go on for so long. 21000 accounts that are nearly guaranteed to vote and not go completely dead until the delegation is withdrawn and the creation SP is drained really boosts the figures considering the active userbase here is so small.
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I suspect that isn't the reason.
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Well hold everybody in suspense and not tell us what you think the reason is. Is this a situation that you can't black list these registrants?
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I voted for you witnesses because I like your posts. Could you please rate this post and verify.... I think we all play for one goal. https://steemit.com/steemit/@marekkaminski/the-scheme-of-spammers-operation-carousel-of-voters-rape-steem-pool-plagiarism-spamming-my-silent-investigation
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i have told my friends about steem and they got interested in joining the steem community, they have signup since January this year and they haven't got their account opened yet, some of them have lost that interest and some are still waiting for a miracle. something have to be done.
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Create a separate team that supplies the hardfork code instead of relying on steeminc.
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I think you are going in the right direction and it seems to me that in time over site of the developing block chain could be delegated using algorithms to coding teams based on past performance in areas of competency and ethics. Just a thought. I'm incredibly novice to this system and fairly new user. I can see a lot of potential for abuse, but also see potential that block chain can allow a system able to level the playing field in ways humanity has yet to experience. Transparent algorithms can be trusted where people cannot
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wow I can't believe this is getting down-voted?!
Of course we should consider this possibility. When STEEM was at $5 that meant that each new account was allocated $75 worth of SP. So 100 accounts being approved for a bot operator, that is a worth of $750 SP.
With numbers like that of course there is going to be a motive for collision/corruption. That could even happen at the lowest levels for example a person getting paid minimum wage to approve accounts.
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They took our jobs, der terk er Jerbb!
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Hahaah hahahaah amazing
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AMEN!
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