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Hi there,

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Thank you for your review, @didic!

So far this week you've reviewed 9 contributions. Keep up the good work!

we all have to thank your hardwork....steemit needs people like you

Agreed.

I want to mention @johngreenfield he helped a bunch in the beginning to lure the flags his way and find the SDL accounts.

I still get those flags I think I might miss it if I didnt?
It seems like we got the job done.

I am sure there will be more I got a flag and a warning today from just warning a guy not to spam.LOOKimage.png

aannnnddddd you just got my vote for 'witness'!

I find myself reading your posts more frequently and I like your direct approach and initiative to resolve 'issues' here.

Awesome work @themarkymark and cheers,
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  ·  6 years ago (edited)

!haggis

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Thanks for your hard work @themarkymark! Loved that hilarious history with the Nutella-meme :-)

@themarkymark, thanks so much for doing all of this.

we need to crush this abuse.

xx

What was the total SP of this 'defence league'?

Bandwidth ok, !pancakes, but ability to 'hurt' anyone, not sure?

Only about 2,010 SP, and I have said it many times that the flags are nothing. I have answered many comments from tons of minnows confused and upset about the flags to ignore them as they are only 1/10th of a cent.

But it has caused a lot of confusion and frustration, I have spent a lot of time educating users to ignore them, but it hasn't removed all the confusion and frustration from them.

I never once claimed it hurt anyone, in fact, if you look at my numerous comments on it, I have told people time and time again to ignore it. Even making one comment on this is a complete waste of my time and costs me more money in time to even respond to this comment than the entire network has caused in financial damage.

The simple fact is users don't understand flags, especially malicious ones. Look at @jerrybanfield, he lost his mind and quit Steem because he wanted to see flags removed so everyone can milk the system anyway they want, he now spends his time trying to get people off of steem and dumping Steem.

It comes down to the Broken Window Theory, if people see people getting away with bad behavior, they are likely to mimic it. The bad actors are also likely to do more and worse if they are validated by success.

I would much rather ignore all this, it's a complete waste of my time, as the flags are meaningless, but stopping it isn't.

!engagement!

You nailed it with this comment! I agree it was a shit load of work and not much thanks from anyone for all the work we did to make the mosquito bites get no blood!
Very time consuming but to make steemit better is worth all the work we do.
Most just have such short sighted vision of this platform because their greed overpowers thoughtful reasoning!

!word

Thanks for the detailed response on this topic.

!popcorn

That's a really shit haircut. Please tell me if I look like this, ever.

!popcorn

But on a serious note: what markymark did is hilarious and in HF20 the bandwith problem shouldn't be a problem at all. (If I waste my RC on popcorn memes and I don't have no more RCs then shame on me)

And actually, the amount of bandwidth from a popcorn bot is laughable in comparison to all those auto-followers & spammers.

Are you good? Do you need some more carbs? Here have some !pancakes.

  ·  6 years ago (edited)

Yeah it's going to be tough for you, and maybe even me, to burn RS.

1/2 min spammers are killing it right now, can HF20 help? hopefully!

and yet, jerry is still high on the witness list (even though he is disabled)

As long as he has @pumpkin's vote (largest vote on the platform), he will be propped up high on the witness list.

He tells a lot of truths in that video though I am not convinced his motives are out of a guilt complex, but who knows.


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I think we are gonna spend some time compiling info of some voting rings on faucet delegation we bumped into recently.

Shoot them over, I'll give you access to my collab list I share with a few for identifying stuff.

umm All the admins and Mods @steemflagrewards have access if they just look or ask.

It's great that they seemed to have died down lately. When I first got downvotes from them I was really worried that some of the big spamming whales might support their cause which would have been catastrophical for many in the platform

I mean, they suck but you have to be a little impressed by their tenacity.

Not at all, I have seen far more tenacity with spammers who harass me in retaliation.

In the end, it's just

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These people are pathetic. If you are going to do a downvote ring at least load it up with some real money to do some damage and cause real pandemonium.

almost ran off to make !pandemonium

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