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RE: So I just flagged a spammer with ~3400 accounts voting numbered comments..
Yeah, the retaliation sucks. For me it's about picking my battles. I can't go up against someone with the same Steem Power, but I can battle the new accounts with low SP, without really feeling the retaliation. I did meet a particularly sore loser earlier this week, but those were just a few minor flags and insults. Reported him to Steemcleaners and that was the end of that :-)
If anyone wants to help on this effort, here is a link to the string of comments mentioned above. Most have been downvoted to nothing, but there are still a few comments with a some earnings left that should be squashed. Click "Show" to reveal the comments with earnings. https://steemit.com/test/@yantarik/test#comments
I'll be searching thru the list of accounts involved in this looking for more abuses and post them here when I find any.
Set some flags there too.
https://steemit.com/test/@yantarik/test
It's fucking ridiculous eh? Money that could be rewarding actual users is being stolen by greedy whales making circle jerk bots. Glad I vote for @ausbitbank for witness.
Yep I really like that he investigates oddities of the steemit too.
I guess an upvote velocity tracker outside of the defaults would be good for catching these automatically.
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yes, fucking ridiculous.
Always agreed with this!
New exploit report (this time autocomments)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@sigmundfreud/steem-auto-comment-exploit-uncovered-80-000sbd-since-hf19
I just got them down to like a few at .05 or .04 cents each, hopefully someone finishes them off.
Keep up the good work :)
it would be great if there was a syndicate that would intervene when righteous Spam flags are retaliated against by the spammer : that should trigger an avalanche of flags to the spammer profile so his profile gets burned to the ground. It would be very bad for this community to allow spammers not only to spam but on top of That get away with intimidation tactics to scare people into not flagging...
Spam should be flagged
Anti flag intimidation by spammers should be squared flagged !
An example should be set to show the spammers what happens .
That would be super useful for anyone who is counter flagged by a spammer ; if the spammer doesn't remove the counterflag then the legitimate flagger can point to this example case of spammer profiles BEING BURNED TO THE GROUND by the community!!
I think that is already how it partially works. Atleast for the newer accounts with low Steem Power. The problems come when it's an account with high SP doing the abusing. If you have a bad whale here, hardly anyone would stand up against them, especially non-whales. We'd be too afraid of retaliation from them, due to them basically being able to blast you down to zero. Counter flag or not, it would ruin your account.
Sure, we as a community could burn his/her reputation to the ground, but he/she/it can take a lot of us down with him/her/it.
Retaliation from a low SP holder doesn't hurt too much and if it gets bad enough, any respectable member can ask the community for help in chasing this person off. It's when you stumble upon a rich prick who's a sore loser that you get into trouble either way...
I say what's right is right and we should blast them all regardless of SP (says the minnow) It's fun to watch @dan and @freedom get involved and stomp on bad whales