Annihilating Abusers With Co Ordinated Attacks


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Once a cheater always a cheater with one or two exceptions and the same applies to abusers on the block chain. The 5 users in the firing line yesterday didn't heed to the warnings and downvotes and have continued on their merry way today again.

It is the same list as yesterday as I believe in taking them out properly. They need to receive no rewards from now on and we need to keep the pressure on. In the past some of us did this but to be honest we never kept the pressure on and these users just kept on growing. Everyone who added to the downvotes I can't thank you enough, but would like to see some others throwing their votes in as well. It can't be the same people all the time and as the saying goes "more hands make for light work".

Yesterday this group had nearly 400 000 Sports tokens heading towards their greedy pockets and they are already down by half. I am hoping within the next day or so it will only be the current daily posts we are having to deal with and not a weeks worth of rewards we are chasing.

@yohann Still has 40 000 Sports tokens in rewards that need to be removed to nil.
@joshcaare Still has 17 000 Sports tokens in rewards that need to be removed to nil.
@dianargenti Still has 65 000 Sports tokens in rewards that need to be removed to nil.
@veltor Still has 40 000 Sports tokens that need to be removed
@juvyjabian Still has 45 000 Sports tokens to be removed

Plus @bien Still has 12 000 sports tokens that need to be removed.

Delegation from @ghosthirdy to @bien 2 days ago. How generous of him.

From To Amount Symbol Created Updated
ghosthirdy bien 200000 SPORTS 2 days ago 2 days ago

For this I have no sympathy as there was no apologies or a change by doing a correct post. What we will see now is movement of delegation to new accounts and we must keep our eyes open to squish them early. I noticed @bien was missed and should have been the 6th member to be exterminated yesterday.

This account is an interesting one as it received delegation from @ghosthirdy a few days ago who if you can recall was nailed a few weeks ago by some of us for exactly the same crap this lot are producing. It looks as though it is one account as they all come out with posts within minutes of each other.

Reducing the rewards to nil on any abuser is good for the tribe as it means the real rewards can be used on decent content and VP isn't wasted playing silly buggers with these time wasters. I feel it is in everyone's interest to follow the downvotes of the referees and keep an eye out for @sportsinfo posts updating what is happening. The sooner we clean the tribe of abuse the better it will be for everyone. I have no problem upvoting decent content as long as it is original and your own work. Unfortunately that won't happen until this place has been swept clean.

I do understand people saying what about giving them a chance etc, but these users don't care and actually it could possibly be a handful of users that need eliminating. I have no sympathy and nuking them is the only answer. Being soft is not going to work as the one user was warned by @referee6 and they apologized yet the very next day did the same thing again.

I do not want this tribe to rot from the inside and we need to be crystal clear that abuse will not be tolerated one bit. there are many names of abusers being mentioned in discord and we need to finish one group at a time. Those others will be the next project.



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I've noticed a trend of abusers moving to much smaller bids from secretive bidbots. They are focusing on tribes where abuse fighting may not be as savvy.
Glad to hear sportstalk is committed to stopping it.

One thing I find is every abuser feels they are entitled to a freebie. Please sir explain what I did wrong.
Well it looks like bid abuse on an account that only suddenly became active.
Usually they pretend they cannot understand even when given the abuse reason or sent the link with definitions. I prefer they figure it out entirely themselves as answering leads to unproductive arguements or worse begging.
It took me almost a year and over 100 posts before I figured out what abuse was, people figuring it out almost immediately are probably not for real.

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That's a problem when posting with multiple tags as they will happily lose one set of tokens knowing they are getting a pile from another tribe on the same post . In this particular case , I have a big dliker token stake so we can remove two sets of tokens from them .

Of course, they'll be back at some point with new accounts and their attitude of entitlement so it's a never ending job !

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Right thats where the don't take too much effort explaining abuse comes in. Use the effort tonstop more of it.
Sports is a tough one to manage given the diversity of sports, but ultimately defining what is acceptable is up to the stakeholders.

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It has taken us a little time to get accustomed to fighting the abuse and I am happy to say it is great to see abusers rewards being removed. If the tribes are going to attract investors they have to be busy fighting any abuse taking place. The larger accounts in the Sportstalk tribe see this and are very busy fighting any abuse.I noticed we were spraying our votes and not hitting them as hard as they should have been. That has been resolved now and happy to say these accounts are going to make 0 sports from now on.

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I have set up a downvote trail to follow your downvotes. It is not very much but I hope it helps a bit Let's get rid of these abusers!

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The key to a tribe holding any value in my opinion is fighting abuse! I just bought some sport yesterday, so good job.

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This is one of the main reasons behind fixing it. Who would buy tokens if no one cared? I know how to fix this and there is loads more coming over the next few days. I hope other tribes see what we are doing and follow our lead as there is loads of cleaning up required.They will abandon their accounts and move to new ones and we will just have to keep following them. The good thing is they can't get any bigger as long as no rewards are coming through.

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I'm glad that you joined the squad. I look forward to see on your first Sportstalk post.

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Thats the stuff, I relish kjeeping the pressure up on them. Tbh I rely on the posts that are dropped in the discord for where to point. For ages I prowled about like a lone wolf but much better to hunt in packs!

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I agree with you as more can be achieved as a group effort and we need to keep the boot on the throat. In the past we never maintained the pressure. Maybe I read too many of your Thursday posts, but this is fun.

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I am giving my best and will throw out some downvotes from my little sports account, sadly I can only remove 700 with a flag but it's better than nothing

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I'm saddened. I understand that somehow from an investor's perspective, they also want to maximize profit.

The problem here is how they game the system. It is not a problem to maximize your investment. Just that, it harms the platform and other user's potential earnings. Most especially the quality of posts are compromised.

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I agree and where votes could be used on other users posts that deserve votes we are wasting them on junk.

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Thanks for the fine efforts. As always, I think it has been a lot of times we ended up thanking you.

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There are mute options on every tribe, I think. That can be used to stop abusers once and for all if they keep abusing or do not change their behavior even after getting a warning.

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We have a special place for them called the penalty box. They are removed from the tribe probably by muting as you stated.

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Fighting abuse by large is a large attack vector and before creating an atmosphere of rewards based on genuine works, the first step which is essential is to throw these abusers out of this platform. Thanks for fighting for such an objective.

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I Think They Should Do it for the Betterment of Sports to Get it Valued. I mostly When Get Sports Even its Limited But i Try to Stake it. And i Feel that by Staking it will Definitely Reduce Supply to Market that will Let Sports Price RISES.

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That is pretty sad that people are taking advantage like this. Awesome that you are doing what you can to stop the abuse. Hopefully people will start paying attention and realizing that they aren't going to get away with ruining the platform for everyone else.

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