[FARM SUPPRESSION] Clearing the Horde of Spammers - page 3.

JaredKaragen

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My AR-15 ID's itself as a toaster. Want breakfast?

yep, 35 reports here 100% accuracy... and growing.... but in the past i have been extremely careful about throwing people under the bus.

I try to do my best; as spammers are the main reason I no longer get a stipend from my signature... which was very nice initially... but the flack from just having it in the end; definitely outweighed the benefit.

I still post the same amount in bursts as I have always done.... the larger empty periods of no posts/activity from me are generally related to my disability.

actmyname

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Spear the bees

Strangely, these posts have been marked as bad. Other high-spam users have also been cleared for similar posts.

Quote from: wahyu wida on June 09, 2019, 08:53:29 PM

Quote from: DreamStage on June 09, 2019, 08:14:54 PM

Yeah sure i use cash for everyday usage if i have to, to pay bills, some real life goods or anything else related to a daily life scenario.
In case there are no available crypto payment methods you will still need to use fiat (cash).

Anyway i find your project quite interesting actually. Will take a closer look when it's started within your 16 days countdown.

so do I, where cash is needed in my country. to meet daily needs, pay bills, or eat at a restaurant, fiat money is used. there has been no breakthrough from the government to announce the legalization of crypto use as a means of payment

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Quote from: wahyu wida on June 08, 2019, 11:48:48 PM

Quote from: shoreno on June 08, 2019, 11:02:46 PM

Quote from: jrrsparkles on June 08, 2019, 10:33:34 AM

If warren Buffet hold millions of bitcoin........

Foolish or low iq is i think will depend from person to person . warren buffet for example is an educated guy , he is smart so he isnt a fool or a low iq person . if he dont sell his coins at the pump , he cant still be consider as a fool/low iq but he can be consider smart or wise because he knows that bitcoin can grew more in the future and he can get alot of profit as much as when he sells his coins at an early pump .

many factors that influence success in investing. in addition to intelligence, we are still faced with a psychological attack at any time with high price fluctuations. on the other hand experience also determines, if someone has experience with the market, of course he will be better prepared to face the market

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Quote from: wahyu wida on June 06, 2019, 12:57:36 AM

Quote from: Ozero on June 06, 2019, 12:08:05 AM

Cryptocurrency banks are already starting to work, and we will not get anywhere. Different ways of interacting with each other cryptocurrencies and banks are inevitable. The whole question is whether the services of such banks will be in demand and whether such activities will be beneficial to the banks themselves. If the demand for specific services in cryptocurrency, such as lending in cryptocurrency, is, then such banks will exist and develop. I do not see anything bad for cryptocurrency.

right, both of them should not be like the competition itself. but the government must be able to sort out by giving policies between the bank and cryptocurrency to be able to run both of them, without dropping each other

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Quote from: wahyu wida on June 05, 2019, 08:27:14 AM

right, I think they only think of themselves, regardless of where the market will run. when there are coins that are worth investing in, if we lack knowledge, it would be better to invest in clear coins

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Quote from: wahyu wida on June 05, 2019, 08:21:14 AM

Quote from: DarkIT on June 05, 2019, 08:15:33 AM

Quote from: smyslov on June 05, 2019, 07:04:17 AM

Thanks for sharing your story and your concern, trading is not for everybody it is time-consuming and you should have a good concentration to analyze every chart movement, this is something not everyone can do if you think you are feeling uneasy then maybe he suffered the same thing OP has, although it's very profitable, it's not for everybody.

trading is not for those who are in a hurry, and you are right, even trading requires a large enough concentration to avoid losses. for now, I also avoid trading. maybe this is not healthy because it stresses many people when their plans are not what they want.

I think the stressed person is not a good trader, because trading is a possibility. if the candle moves not according to plan, of course we must find the cause. the market is never wrong

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PrimeNumber7

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You can use a script that Cyrus wrote to report posts from a persons post history. If you see someone who is making a lot of low effort posts, review their post history and report posts that don’t belong, and add a note that they are wearing a paid sig if they are.

For every post of a scammer you get removed is one post they won’t get paid for.

If you see someone making low effort posts, you can also give them a friendly nudge that you think it would be beneficial if they put more effort into their posts.

actmyname

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Quote from: LoyceV on July 11, 2019, 02:50:36 PM

Quote from: actmyname on July 11, 2019, 02:31:36 PM

Reminder for those that have forgotten: activity requires at least one post per 2-week period in order to gain the potential (and subsequently true) activity. Erase all those posts... and poof, you've used maybe 5% of the amount of time that they have to rubberband them back to 0 for that period.

I don't think Mods appreciate reporting long-forgotten posts: -snip-

Which is why I tend to go for the posts that are within the recent few weeks. Believe you me, there's far more available than you think... thousands of posts are made each hour.

I'm not saying that we have to eradicate a user's entire history. They should get the message after the first 30 "your post has been deleted" PMs. I did return to some users after they kept doing oneliners though

LoyceV

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Quote from: actmyname on July 11, 2019, 02:31:36 PM

Reminder for those that have forgotten: activity requires at least one post per 2-week period in order to gain the potential (and subsequently true) activity. Erase all those posts... and poof, you've used maybe 5% of the amount of time that they have to rubberband them back to 0 for that period.

I don't think Mods appreciate reporting long-forgotten posts:

Quote from: hilariousetc on August 01, 2018, 09:11:16 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2018, 08:48:31 AM

Shouldn't it be considered a good thing if people start reporting more bad posts?

Not really. There's a couple of users who have just started frantically spamming the report queue recently with hundreds of reports a day probably because theymos announced the possibility of merit badges. It's clear some of them are actually just looking for things to report because they're reporting old threads that haven't been posted in for ages just to be 'locked' or spam posts from ages ago. Just saw one report from January on a spam post. Is that really essential? Nobody will see or miss that post whether it's there or not. Do I really need to waste my time deleting hundreds of posts long buried in a bounty thread? All it does is swamp the queue with things that are either going to take a long time to handle or not get handled at all and increases the chances of us missing something important that needs handling urgently.

actmyname

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Reserved.

Current statistics:

Good reports

Code:

Total reports: 41452
Total users: 2276
Average reports/user: 18.21
Worst offender: Vinaa77

actmyname

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As you know, we have been plagued with the Forum Account Reproduction Movement constantly. For as long as I have been on the forum, this was one lucrative part that shady users couldn't dodge.

Question: How do we proactively suppress account farming and spammers?

Answer: Reporting posts.

Reminder for those that have forgotten: activity requires at least one post per 2-week period in order to gain the potential (and subsequently true) activity. Erase all those posts... and poof, you've used maybe 5% of the amount of time that they have to rubberband them back to 0 for that period.
If the post is not deleted... then that's good: the goal is to clear spam and disincentivize low-effort posts. If the end-result is achieved without restitution then we should be happy.

To note, even before using any page-wide report buttons (i.e. reporting every single of the 20 replies) it takes me about 30 seconds to go through a page of one-liners. That's usually equal to at least a week or two of time. And if they create a single one-liner, it's likely they'll have many many more.

Most of the offenders tend to stick to the low-hanging fruit type of threads and boards. These include: Trading/Bitcoin Discussion, Economics, Altcoin Discussion, etc. (you all know where)

Take the reins and rear the forum away from spam.

Addendum.

Question: How to we more effectively suppress account farming?

Answer: Delegate some work to combat it directly, using tools that have been available in the past (take a look at rizzlarolla's history)

This is a more top-down solution.

Miscellaneous: Spam Board Patrol

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