RE: Cheetahbot and ShadowBot [Abuse Detection]
So how do we find out if we are on cheetahbot's radar? When I first started on Steem I saw cheetahbot reply on some of my post. I guess it is a bot as it really didn't give any interaction. I have tried to use advice as I go and have not seen anything from cheetah recently. I would like to suggest, there seems to be many well established steemanians going after newbies. As a recent newbie myself but still in a heavy learning curve, I would like to ask that the age and usage of an account be taken into consideration when punishment is applied. Steem is not like any other social network, making the learning curve a little steeper than most. Mistakes will be made. Maybe a little more info given by cheetahbot as to the danger it imposes and why. As I recall, all cheetahbot said was, this post (with a link) has been found elsewhere. I had built my story on my own and did not understand until now, that I was being tagged for it.
The age of your account has no bearing on ShadowBot or Cheetahbot's blacklisting.
If you get a post that is friendly and an up vote from CheetahBot you are just being notified that your content appears very similar to other content on the internet. It does NOT add you to the blacklist.
If you get a post from Cheetahbot that starts with "Warning" and tells you that you are on the black list, you are now on their black list and will be added to ShadowBot's black list as well.
All members added to our Black List have the 7 days from that time to explain their case and if we decide you are not abusing anything or spamming we will remove you from our internal Black List.
Currently I do not see a readily available way to access CheetahBot's blacklist but we are building the list from the blockchain based on their comments. ShadowBot will provide a way to access and search the blacklist!
Please read through the FAQ on CheetahBot to understand more:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cheetah/faq-about-cheetah
(We are in no way shape or form affiliated with @cheetah or it's developers, we simply like their style and have built a great resource for us to build on top of!)
OK, I do not remember if it was cheetah or cheetabot. Thank you very much for the additional info. I will follow you to keep up to date on your post as I think this info in VERY important people know what is going on.
@cheetah is the steemit username for Cheetah Bot. Glad to help!