Topic: Trust spam report + suggestion - page 2. (Read 788 times)
Somewhat off topic here, however while we are making technical changes to the trust system, I think we should allow those that have received trust to write a rebuttal/response to any trust rating they receive. It is generally considered unethical among journalists to not solicit and publish (in pertinent part) a response to accusations against the subject of a (news) report. I don't see any reason why someone should not be able to directly respond to trust ratings, especially those negative in nature posted to their trust profile.
I'm having the same issue with member Buzzlieve1992, who left several VERY long, consecutive, negative trusts on my page.
I'm all for being able to leave trust as you see fit, but this is just abuse. He's obviously trying to obscure the rest of my trust page with these unnecessary trusts, and his is retaliatory feedback, plain & simple. I left him a neg for being an account dealer.
So from what I gather, there's no good way to report these jackoffs?
I'm all for being able to leave trust as you see fit, but this is just abuse. He's obviously trying to obscure the rest of my trust page with these unnecessary trusts, and his is retaliatory feedback, plain & simple. I left him a neg for being an account dealer.
So from what I gather, there's no good way to report these jackoffs?
Something should be done about blatant abuses but nothing likely will. Theymos is probably too busy to investigate and I don't think cyrus has the powers to remove it (though I could be wrong, but he'll also likely be too busy to do so). I've suggested before some restrictions should be put in place like maybe a user can only leave one feedback per day on a user (or maybe even longer - week, month etc). They can still edit the feedback with any additional updates but there's probably not many good reasons why people should be able to spam a users trust. I've had one on my hilariousandco account who went on a spamming spree in the past removed but the huge feedback from steamproject advertising his scammy torrent invites sales is still there despite requesting it to be removed. Other such instances like yours should also be removed but I doubt it's a priority for the admins right now sadly.
What's the best way to report this kind of spam?
Based on a similar encounter (to an extent), creating a thread on "Reputation" board was/is the solution.Also, I think there should be some limits regarding trust, something like for example:
Great suggestions, would like to add another one:- Not more than 1 trust left on an account per account and IP per day (I know this can be fouled, but it could help a little at least). At the moment it seems newbies have much more limits on posts and PMs than on leaving trust
- Not more than 300 chars per feedback at most. Not more than 5 new lines. If more is required, a post on Reputation can be opened and linked on the reference
- How about not allowing users below "Member" rank to have the ability to leave a feedback (since most users with such behavior are usually within those ranks)? An exception can be made for "Copper Members" (it won't solve everything but it also adds another layer).
Bump and update:
Te trust spammer Moseas79 has added 11 more trust entries with 81 lines each.
The total is now 30 entries of 81 lines each, totaling 2,430 lines of trust spam on my profile.
Plus, Buzzlieve1992 has left 6,411 lines of trust spam, 426 of those on my profile.
I'm still waiting for:
Te trust spammer Moseas79 has added 11 more trust entries with 81 lines each.
The total is now 30 entries of 81 lines each, totaling 2,430 lines of trust spam on my profile.
Plus, Buzzlieve1992 has left 6,411 lines of trust spam, 426 of those on my profile.
I'm still waiting for:
- Trust left by Moseas79 and Buzzlieve1992 to be removed and, hopefully, their accounts to be banned
- An admin to tell me what's the best way to report this. I don't think creating a new thread should be required
- Some comments regarding my suggestion about setting some limits when leaving too many or too long trust, especially for newbies
Thanks for bringing this up. I'm used to getting retaliatory negative feedback at this point, but this is just obnoxious. Looks like you got it even worse than I did unfortunately. I know untrusted feedback doesn't really count for much, but it's still nice to have a clean record of previous deals, when most of them haven't been with DT members. Hopefully this will be addressed.
Agreed. Fortunately untrusted feedback goes mostly ignored, and I'm used to getting a lot of untrusted fake feedback, but 1,539 lines left by the same newbie in just a few minutes is just ridiculous. 
While less annoying than Moseas79, several other users intentionally add extra blank lines or leave spammy "previous versions" of left trust with repeated information with the sole intention of making it longer and use more real estate, like TheButterZone or Engg.Chaks did on my profile.
Would you prefer I revise history, like you have perpetrated against me? Sites like archive.is can't access trust pages as they're behind registration wall, forcing reliance on forge-able screenshots/printing to PDF, but at least your revisionist ("instead of") history is easily disproved by looking at my sent negative ratings upon "those who are scammers or untrustworthy".
Not more than 300 chars per feedback at most
Having an idea of how little you & your lynch mob think of clearly-violating fair-warned binding terms, I don't expect much, but...
If you GPG-clearsign your consent, forfeit rating reciprocation on any/every platform, and agree to pay me BTC12.5 if you renege, I'll change my rating upon your Bitcointalk trust page to a 300 character max negative.
Thanks for bringing this up. I'm used to getting retaliatory negative feedback at this point, but this is just obnoxious. Looks like you got it even worse than I did unfortunately. I know untrusted feedback doesn't really count for much, but it's still nice to have a clean record of previous deals, when most of them haven't been with DT members. Hopefully this will be addressed.
Or at least when trust is added from newbie and junior account (since for members now you have to post quality content and I doubt scammers will want to give their time for that) for instance to color it differently from black, green and red trust that is given out. As spammers usually create new accounts to give this "fake trust" they might be even selling it to other people who knows.
I think using that many colors would be confusing and wouldn't help.Adding some limits would be better, especially to newbies and junior members.
Or at least when trust is added from newbie and junior account (since for members now you have to post quality content and I doubt scammers will want to give their time for that) for instance to color it differently from black, green and red trust that is given out. As spammers usually create new accounts to give this "fake trust" they might be even selling it to other people who knows.
Trust is not moderated, but trust spam with no intentions other than spamming is forbidden:
What's the best way to report this kind of spam? I want to report trust spam left by Moseas79 on my profile:
19 trust left, 81 lines each. Total: 1,539 lines of fake trust 
2,430 lines of trust spam now
Edit:
Also Buzzlieve1992, who left trust spam to other users (and probably to me too very soon as I'm leaving negative trust to him now).
Also, I think there should be some limits regarding trust, something like for example:
Trust should be informative and readable, not intrusive.
While less annoying than Moseas79, several other users intentionally add extra blank lines or leave spammy "previous versions" of left trust with repeated information with the sole intention of making it longer and use more real estate, like TheButterZone or Engg.Chaks did on my profile.
Trust spam isn't allowed. If I see anyone posting dozens of fake trust ratings (from one account or many alt accounts), I will delete all of their ratings
What's the best way to report this kind of spam? I want to report trust spam left by Moseas79 on my profile:
2,430 lines of trust spam now
Edit:
Also Buzzlieve1992, who left trust spam to other users (and probably to me too very soon as I'm leaving negative trust to him now).
Also, I think there should be some limits regarding trust, something like for example:
- Not more than 1 trust left on an account per account and IP per day (I know this can be fouled, but it could help a little at least). At the moment it seems newbies have much more limits on posts and PMs than on leaving trust
- Not more than 300 chars per feedback at most. Not more than 5 new lines. If more is required, a post on Reputation can be opened and linked on the reference
Trust should be informative and readable, not intrusive.
While less annoying than Moseas79, several other users intentionally add extra blank lines or leave spammy "previous versions" of left trust with repeated information with the sole intention of making it longer and use more real estate, like TheButterZone or Engg.Chaks did on my profile.
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