Yup. I know. I killed this account recently. The moron was taking posts straight off of the trending page and posting them as his own. Then he went over to the RT site and started pasting articles from there. A few more weeks and he would have graduated to using bid bots to support his scam.
Dmania is fucking stupid. They rip off memes and earn while the actual artists here just leave, and that's really bad for everyone because the arts and entertainment industry generates billions per year... but I guess these investors here don't want a piece of that pie, which doesn't make any sense at all.
You folks selling votes better start charging an entrance fee and screening new members BEFORE they're allowed access to your services. For the life of me I can't figure out why you all do it ass backwards. Let the good ones in, keep the scum out. There's far more money to be made in honest advertising and promotion but it seems you guys don't really know that yet. You guys just make it a free for all then scramble and end up doing far more work cleaning up the mess. Counterproductive.
< sarcasm >Whatever though. Good luck with your post here. I hope that changes everything!</ sarcasm >
I have a massive blacklist blocking users who post stolen content and spam, also banned dmania and steemshot from being rewarded. The SteemBotTracker ties my hand from doing anything like a whitelist. SmartSteem tried the whitelist approach and didn't work. Very few bots blacklist and even fewer do the research to find abuse.
The best I can do right now is to stop serving the people who plagiarize, spam, scam, and fraud.
Unfortunately, it is very time consuming and ends up with a lot of retaliation abuse. I still spend 10-40+ hours a week on it.
There is a system in place to discourage these types from participating in vote bots and voting circles, but it is not being used.
It actually did its job, it is being discussed heavily in private channels and may result in changes.
Some change would be nice to see. A lot of people are becoming discouraged. By the way, the shit post award is just a joke. I was bored.
I'm not offended :)
You did a great job with the post!
I'm sure you have a good reason -- but could I ask why SteepShot posts are blacklisted? I understand that a lot of stuff on there is super spammy -- but there's also a lot of quality photography content as well.
The amount of SteepShot content I have seen that has been low effort spam far outweighed the authentic content.
I'm trying to do my best in offering promotion service but reducing the amount of garbage being rewarded.
Thanks for the quickly response, dude.
Fair enough, and that's generally what I had assumed your thought process was. I imagine a lot of the 'general spam' posters that were just tossing up a single image and two word description probably migrated over to that interface -- which is unfortunate because I feel that SteepShot is a nice clean app for android phones.
Is there any way that a blacklist could be imposed on users below a certain reputation score, rather than on an entire app? I would reckon that's something you'd thought of previously though... Just brainstorming and spitballing...
Right now reputation isn't a factor as it is easily gamed up or down.
"For the life of me I can't figure out why you all do it ass backwards. "
Really? You can't for the life of you figure out why bot runners (Marky and others heavy on anti-abuse partially excluded) would want to have vastly more customers throwing money at them?
More Customers > Less Customers seems pretty obvious?
Wait a minute here...
Are you trying to tell me these people don't really care about the long term health of their businesses!? I mean, if you were to hand over the exact same tokens you depend on to stay afloat to a bunch of people who's main mission in life is to take said tokens and run to drive the value down avenue exchange, all while leaving such a mess behind that other future potential customers feel reluctant to move into the neighborhood because it's overrun by crack heads and random tipped over shopping carts, do you see yourself thriving behind a dumpster after everything is said and done? And to think, most of these people don't even make money even though some dipshit started a rumor that one could make money so wouldn't that further disrupt the flow if their customers no longer had any money to give them because they took it all? Wouldn't quantity over quality in this scenario be much like an inflatable dildo that grows at the same rate their asses stretch the more they fuck themselves?