RE: Fighting phishing on Hive - 2 solutions to better deal with phishing on Hive. Your feedback is needed.

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One important thing to add.

Lists being created by different projects should be named and separated. the big downfall of utility with many lists in the past is that the operators like @hivewatchers and @keys-defender and others seemingly put everyone onto one single jumbled up list instead of separating them... making their lists insanely less beneficial to other people and projects.
That would make us and our users more willing to use features like you proposed.

I will say this now I would not be happy with including features into peakd that use lists that are not specific in nature. If it's about fighting phishing make it that alone... if it's a list of spammers do that and see if users want to include that. If it's suspected reward pool abusers they need to not be in a list together with phishers.

But yes giving an automated account access to help a community with account moderation is a great idea we have thought the same thing to give community member labels or badges.

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I’m already keeping lists separate. I currently have a phishing domains list and, as per comments on my “universal script” post, I will also offer a separate list for scam domains.

I also believe that banning domains rather than accounts is more effective. 1. Because phishers during their attacks create/steal/use multiple accounts and 2. because phished accounts can be recovered and would require removal from blacklists, phishing domains don't.

(I am in the middle of replying to this post too - long reply and it’s difficult to re-word on my phone [newborn asleeep])

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Awesome very happy to hear this!!

Also you may be correct for phishing links however communities still do not want the offending spammy links inside of the communities so I assume they would love a sort of automated and trusted system they could choose to use to moderate them out of their communities

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That's why in my Universal Script post I also mentioned that I would do something similar for phished accounts (ie. when users click a link in a comment from a known phished account, it will warn them with a prompt - in all Hive frontends that integrate my script).

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