(5.1) The scope is fluid and gets revised regularly. The current scope rests on cases of farming or spam for the detrimental purposes of reward pool extraction and other malicious ends.

• faucet (free Steemit-issued account) abuse/multi-account rings
• comment farming
• comment spam
• post farming
• 'botnets'/automated account clusters
• follow up of hacker/phishing accounts

The scope changes based on the current needs of the STEEM ecosystem. To see an example of change in progress, please see this post regarding community input.