RE: Ntopaz Antiabuse Report Nov. 2018-May 2019
Greetings @adamada!
Thank you kindly for providing a brief look at @ntopaz's procedures. I have noticed the progress the platform has made since its early days as @artisteem. Some may complain about the way they conduct business still, but they have come a long way.
The statistics you have shown here indicate fair amount of users do repeat offenses. It would appear that the vast majority of the offenders wind up on the blacklist. I noted the toxicity and multi-account criteria, and am curious about their percentages.
The summary of the review process at nTopaz should help other anti-abuse initiatives. Too often, reporters, etc. do not know what to expect from the staff at nTopaz. It is good to know that few makes it to payout when caught on time. Do you happen to know the stats on that as well?
As for the efficiency, that is something the owners of the platform would have to work out. I do encourage them to have representatives in contact with anti-abuse initiatives. Should @ntopaz not pull the votes on time, at least they can be demonetized.
There are other implications when it comes to your comment about low activities. Let's be optimistic for now.
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Taking into account abuse posts that got past payout would not paint a different picture. The platform's history of being careless at autocuration of the tag can accommodate more users that don't follow the guidelines over those that do. I gave up browsing those posts that ran through hundreds from the same accounts banned.
There was no real curator doing the upvotes in the past. That's something I am sure of.
As for toxicity, I could only recall one user that persisted posting low quality content and was in contempt when it was pointed out. It's a very rare case that someone bothers to talk back after being found out for their trash post.
What is the prognosis of ensuring quality content for nTopaz in the future?
For now, I can't put any definite certainty it's going to get better. Measures are constantly being discussed among team members. It's a community driven organization for the most part while ntopaz takes a back seat. Quality content will depend on the people using the platform and blocking out those that don't contribute to it.
I can tell for certain that suspicious accounts won't last long in the platform as soon as they realize there's no money in it. We see new names pop up weekly and multiple accounts. In most cases, once suspicion is present on an account, they'll just notice the lack of curator interaction as a symptom and subsequently decrease their activity.
We don't make a big fuzz about sanctions to users so it usually seems nothing is happening until they complain via dm or discord they have been penalized. Ntopaz wasn't built with antiabuse efforts in mind as exhibited from its past. Things just happen silently and that's what it's supposed to be. But for transparency's sake, anyone can look up the names of violators on Discord.
👆 this guy is criminal !
Thank you for your review, @enforcer48! Keep up the good work!