RE: 😨 Are You Scared Of UPVU Yet?
I knew that the developers (who don't seem to be very active) had Tron affiliations, but not that the booming accounts did too. That explains some things.
That's right - the booming accounts are overseen by somebody called Joanna based in Singapore. Users who choose booming votes have access to her and I believe she then passes on a list of posts to the developers to upvote (which is why the votes are often clustered).
Did you see this post that I reblogged? - https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@happyberrysboy/happyberrysboy-posting-2022-03-27-19-36
It's by one of the UPVU developers with their ideas for future changes to UPVU. I suggest sharing some of your ideas with him and seeing what his thoughts are. He's suggested a few bits that could reduce the spam which will hopefully come to fruition.
Do you happen to know if there is an account that's fairly reliable and actively downvoting plagiarism? I had delegated some to ac-cheetah, but I noticed that it seemed to have become dormant, so I pulled the delegation back.
At the moment, no. papi.mati should be giving me the keys to ac-cheetah once his power down's complete - which I believe it now is. I haven't pushed him because I'm not sure I want the responsibility again (I previously ran @endingplagiarism and it was horribly demoralising).
Just repliedd to the developer, here.
Let me know if you start up with the plagiarism again, and I'll send a delegation back. I understand your reluctance. It's hard work without much reward, and people don't have much tolerance for the inevitable errors.
Aside from going back to the rewards algorithm, the only other way I can imagine it being sustainable is through a LifeLock style subscription service where content producers elsewhere on the Internet pay to have their content protected. That would be a major undertaking, though.
Those that have done it will echo that. In time, you mostly detach yourself from the emotion (although sometimes, somebody gets a bit of "special" treatment). Perhaps strangely, when it comes from the @endingplagiarism account, the warnings are accepted more than when they come from this account. Perhaps the other account appears more "official" but it's the same person behind it. When I do get it wrong (like you say, it's inevitable), most people have been ok with it. I'm very careful to be sure of the evidence before warning people though because I don't want to accuse somebody of something they haven't done. Often contacting them via another social media. I'm rambling. It's a hard job to get right and thanks for the offer 🙂 I think that the downvoting curation trail was a great addition and it's a shame that this wasn't offered to the original @endingplagiarism account.
The cases of identity theft on Steemit have increased a lot - often somebody who posts on Hive is copied here and sometimes vice versa. They'll always find a way to cheat.
Hopefully you'll get a positive response from the developer. He seems like a decent lad although busy so I don't know what you can expect 🙂