I did, and I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on! Seems you have at least 2 bots abusing your name. I will re-read your article and perhaps ask marky-mark what's going on.
Really appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thank you.
Long story short, there's a user who has created over 70 accounts (and growing) who is going around flagging everyone and anyone. They were caught by @abusereports, myself and a handful of others plagiarising and spamming, and they've since spent the last 3+ months acting like a spoilt brat. They have 3 accounts with my name and details on, but I'm not the only one. There are already bots set up to counter their flags, plus their flags are worth next to nothing, if not nothing most of the time. It's incredibly annoying, but harmless. There is a method to remove the delegated steem, however it's a game of whack-a-mole when they just keep setting up new accounts.
Thanks again, just re-read. I totally support @abusereports. As a matter of interest, there are a number of people paying others to open new steemit accounts on their behalf on sites such as microworkers.com etc....I've mentioned to others before but no one seems to give a shit.
Good to meet you, its strange how these things happen, and apologies for trashing the comments section on a great post.
The book was a like an urban myth when I was a kid at school in lates 70s, early 80s...people kept claiming to have a copy. Of course, it was fairly easily downloadable in the dial in bulletin board days in the early 90s. Back then, it wasn't really about the politics or cause, it was simply kids wanting to have fun making stuff that went 'bang'!
Thank you so much for that bud, that's really interesting. I've often wondered exactly how they're getting these new accounts, and that could be a possibility. There's definitely a problem there in my eyes, one that Steemit Inc. need to deal with. I'll have a look into this and report back.
It's alright and thank you, and apologies for coming across short, I've been a bit inundated with comments about this problem lately. The good thing out of all this is that I'm getting to meet people who I might not have spoken to otherwise.
That was what drew me to track down a digital copy of the book in the early 00s; the desire to make things explode! I wasn't aware of the story behind it though, or why it came to be. I almost feel bad for William Powell, it's almost like a youthful act haunted him for the rest of his life.
Figured I'd come over here to get away from all the "why did you flag me!!!?" questions :)
I remember people claiming to have copies of the book on disk in the mid nineties - don't think I ever actually saw it though. From memory it was getting traded around along with A500 games and guides to hydro grows and getting high on common household cleaning products. This was just prior to dial up WWW access becoming common, so we were getting all this stuff from bulletin boards and probably Usenet.
Are you getting it too? I have to say, they've really upped their game this time.
Sadly I'm a little too young to have been part of the usenet and BB days, I didn't really get online until 1996 with a 56k modem. By the time of torrents, various versions of the Jolly Rogers cookbook were everywhere. From what I could tell from my research, it was much harder to find pre-web.
I don't have a bot, but if I did, I wouldn't just copy my profile picture for it. Please read this: https://steemit.com/steemit/@johngreenfield/abuse-fighter-steemit-doofus-league-accounts
I did, and I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on! Seems you have at least 2 bots abusing your name. I will re-read your article and perhaps ask marky-mark what's going on.
Really appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thank you.
Long story short, there's a user who has created over 70 accounts (and growing) who is going around flagging everyone and anyone. They were caught by @abusereports, myself and a handful of others plagiarising and spamming, and they've since spent the last 3+ months acting like a spoilt brat. They have 3 accounts with my name and details on, but I'm not the only one. There are already bots set up to counter their flags, plus their flags are worth next to nothing, if not nothing most of the time. It's incredibly annoying, but harmless. There is a method to remove the delegated steem, however it's a game of whack-a-mole when they just keep setting up new accounts.
Thanks again, just re-read. I totally support @abusereports. As a matter of interest, there are a number of people paying others to open new steemit accounts on their behalf on sites such as microworkers.com etc....I've mentioned to others before but no one seems to give a shit.
Good to meet you, its strange how these things happen, and apologies for trashing the comments section on a great post.
The book was a like an urban myth when I was a kid at school in lates 70s, early 80s...people kept claiming to have a copy. Of course, it was fairly easily downloadable in the dial in bulletin board days in the early 90s. Back then, it wasn't really about the politics or cause, it was simply kids wanting to have fun making stuff that went 'bang'!
Thank you so much for that bud, that's really interesting. I've often wondered exactly how they're getting these new accounts, and that could be a possibility. There's definitely a problem there in my eyes, one that Steemit Inc. need to deal with. I'll have a look into this and report back.
It's alright and thank you, and apologies for coming across short, I've been a bit inundated with comments about this problem lately. The good thing out of all this is that I'm getting to meet people who I might not have spoken to otherwise.
That was what drew me to track down a digital copy of the book in the early 00s; the desire to make things explode! I wasn't aware of the story behind it though, or why it came to be. I almost feel bad for William Powell, it's almost like a youthful act haunted him for the rest of his life.
Figured I'd come over here to get away from all the "why did you flag me!!!?" questions :)
I remember people claiming to have copies of the book on disk in the mid nineties - don't think I ever actually saw it though. From memory it was getting traded around along with A500 games and guides to hydro grows and getting high on common household cleaning products. This was just prior to dial up WWW access becoming common, so we were getting all this stuff from bulletin boards and probably Usenet.
Are you getting it too? I have to say, they've really upped their game this time.
Sadly I'm a little too young to have been part of the usenet and BB days, I didn't really get online until 1996 with a 56k modem. By the time of torrents, various versions of the Jolly Rogers cookbook were everywhere. From what I could tell from my research, it was much harder to find pre-web.