Anyx is the owner and operator of the venerable @cheetah, a plagiarism-stalking predator that we have all come across (hopefully not on our own posts.) Cheetah has saved me, personally, substantial time in googling plagiarized content for authenticity, so for that I say thank you, Anyx and Cheetah.
If, like yours truly, you are prone to attempting to curate in the “New” section, you will probably be seeing Cheetah a lot. Cheetah is a bot that uses an algorithm to detect content copied from the internet, whether it is quoted in part or in whole. Over time, Cheetah has been refined to trigger less false positives, and the language has gradually been adjusted to make Cheetah’s message more productive and less confrontational.
Note that Cheetah is NOT a flagging bot; in fact, it applies token upvotes to posts that it tags.
Fun fact about @cheetah: according to Anyx, it’s proprietary AI is actually quite expensive to run on a recurring basis! It wouldn’t hurt to give Cheetah the occasional upvote when you see it. After all, cheetahs are a protected species.
In a “revelation” that will produce few gasps, Anyx is also heavily involved in the SteemCleaners initiative. Steemcleaners works relentlessly to clean up all forms of abuse on the Steemit platform, such as spam (both standard and tag varieties), plagiarism, and post-stealing/identity theft. It’s a huge and mostly thankless job, so toss Steemcleaners a vote whenever you can.
When Anyx has time, he primarily posts about travel and photography. His Chicago series has been particularly popular. My personal favorite was the Lincoln Park Zoo post, and I am also a fan of his avatar, the phoenix.
Anyx is a Peerplays Witness.
Anyx is holding 27,000 SP and is currently powering down.
Anyx's Current Witness Update: https://steemit.com/witness-category/@anyx/anyx-cheetah-and-steemcleaners-witness-update-2017-09-18
Anyx’s Previous Witness + Cheetah Update Thread: https://steemit.com/witness-category/@anyx/anyx-cheetah-and-steemcleaners-witness-update-2017-06-14
Anyx’s Original Witness Thread: https://steemit.com/witness-category/@anyx/witness-application-anyx
Anyx’s Zoo Post: https://steemit.com/photography/@anyx/chicago-part-6-lincoln-park-zoo-continued
Original Steemcleaners Post: https://steemit.com/steemcleaners/@steemcleaners/announcing-steemcleaners-the-steemit-abuse-fighting-team
Please see the acknowledgement post here.
If you have any additions or errata for this post, please let me know! I will see that they are voted to the top of the comments, and will make the appropriate edits (if possible).
We also have a Radio Station! (click me)
...and a 4800+ user Discord Chat Server! (click me)
Sources: Anyx's Blog, Cheetah's Blog
Copyright: Anyx's Blog, Cheetah's Blog, @cass
Its not much but I did upvote your post, I think @anyx is doing a fantastic job, and is why they are one of the witnesses I picked, and even though I have been visited by @cheetah in the past, a simple reply to it, and no problem. The link for source was kind of buried. I also upvoted both of @anyx comments, I am still very new, but I do recognize the quality work the @cheetah, and @anyx do for keeping steemit a comfortable place to enjoy. Thank you for your support of @cheetah, and @anyx.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Glad to hear your Cheetah relationship improved after a rocky start!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I really like your article, I can learn a lot here. As a new user, of course I am still very vulnerable with some things related to plagiarism, and as much as possible I will avoid it so as not to be visited cheetah. I am very grateful because I can learn a lot here.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I'm pleased you found the article helpful!
Sometimes it can be as good to know what not to do as to know what TO do.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thanks for the info. I think cheetah is awesome even though he still has a few flaws its a lot better than nothing and definitely helps the community stay informed. Any idea at the weekly cost to run?
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
"Any idea at the weekly cost to run?"
Correction: Anyx reports this is closer to $100 per day. Please see the child comments to this comment for additional info.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
In the neighbourhood of a hundred per day, not per month. :) Boy I wish it were per month.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thank you, Anyx. I haven't seen updated numbers in months, so thank you for the correction. I will make an edit.
That is surprisingly hefty - at $3000 a month. Is that the total cost for 2 externally maintained and hosted servers (main/backup) at 2 separate locations?
I think that would be a bit less than half the block rewards in server cost, correct?
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Oh, that's just the API cost (for running the web search algorithm).
Factor in the cost for maintaining a full private RPC node and it's even more. It's specifically the reason why I create cheetah logs on her account. For the most part it pays for her, and any additional cost comes out of my witness pay.
All this is independent of my witness node costs (currently 4 servers: main + 2x backup/p2p link, public seed) which adds to the bill.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Wow, 4 of them! I had no idea. Thanks for dealing with all that!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Wow thats insane at the cost. Thanks for keeping this going for steemit!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The kind of Bot that makes Steemit better for all...a job well done to @anyx
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Agreed.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
In my early days on steemit, I have seen a lot of @cheetah bot.
It did help me a lot also
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
He can't be everywhere at once, though, so if you have a suspicion and Cheetah is not there, toss it into Google.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
It great know this bot warn about people tha abuse whit the copy paste, and protec us about thief our content.
Thank for explain and share.
@astory
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I am enjoying backtracking through this series. 😀
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Awesome, glad you made it! I guess I needn't have mentioned the back-entries to you, as you were already here!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
i like your posts <3
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thanks!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
@originalworks
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Ok thank you for telling us about cheetah because I am a newbie here and I seen in in some post a respond from @cheetah saying like post is a spam and it confused me what is this cheetah doing, till checking your post. @lexiconical thanks for this information.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Happy I could help!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The @OriginalWorks bot has determined this post by @lexiconical to be original material and upvoted it!
To call @OriginalWorks, simply reply to any post with @originalworks or !originalworks in your message!
To enter this post into the daily RESTEEM contest, upvote this comment! The user with the most upvotes on their @OriginalWorks comment will win!
For more information, Click Here! || Click here to participate in the @OriginalWorks writing contest!
Special thanks to @reggaemuffin for being a supporter! Vote him as a witness to help make Steemit a better place!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
@reported has voted on behalf of @minnowpond. If you would like to recieve upvotes from minnowpond on all your posts, simply FOLLOW @minnowpond. To be Resteemed to 4k+ followers and upvoted heavier send 0.25SBD to @minnowpond with your posts url as the memo
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit