@steemcleaners and @spaminator gone rogue - $11,000 per annum
Since I started @endingplagiarism, I've received a lot of comments (both positive and negative) comparing this to the work that @steemcleaners did. Some people happy that the anti-plagiarism initiative has returned (albeit in a new guise) and others unhappy that I'm not a bot so they can't fool me as easily.
So imagine my surprise when I pay @steemcleaners and @spaminator a visit and see that they've got themselves into a new initiative - spamming and vote farming through @spam-wars.
Source - https://steemit.com/hive-175254/@spam-wars/have-you-been-hacked?sort=new#comments
A different user told me yesterday that they've started plagiarising content because "everybody else does it [sic]". And it appears that the good guys of yesteryear are no different.
Roughly $30 per day - $11,000 per year.
It saddens me how often greed seems to corrupt.
@steemcurator01 - Is there is anything you can do to put a stop to this?
I'm glad someone finally saw what was going on. I think I told you about the situation on our first communication months ago. I also posted about it on 3-4 different other websites but also contacted their colleagues on Hive. Had a good fight with them because they said that although they have the same username, they don't use Steem at all. When I showed them that Steemcleaners on Hive was constantly reposting Hivewatchers posts etc they were pretending they don't understand. Anyway, will try to attach a couple of screenshots from March. Obviously I am so stupid that I try to help the situation on both platforms for free, only to get ridiculed.
Asked @steemcurator01 a few days ago on another post if there is any open position for someone fighting spam and plagiarism but didn't get an answer.
I think that if you search for Tron Foundation's website, they have a list of available vacancies.
Doing things like stopping spam and plagiarism appear to be a job for the community at the moment. Hopefully one day a profile like this one won't be required.
After searching for a week on different websites, didn't find anything. The only place I found with open positions was LinkedIn, but there was nothing about Steem.
These are nothing, currently, there are many accounts doing the same, without a doubt, an account with 1 million steempower would be needed to combat all spammers and plagiarists.
Sadly, I know. I've highlighted so many accounts doing far worse than this.
As @steemcleaners suggested in his (now deleted) reply, there are top users milking far more than this with multiple accounts posting plagiarised content on a daily basis. For thousands of dollars per week.
And as you say, I probably need at least 1 million steem power to make a dent in the "thieves and scammers" that have overrun the platform. @goodreader is the most obvious example whose posts I highlighted on a daily basis for a month, heavily funded by @alanyao and @tipu and nothing has been done.
Sycophant?
Perhaps revisiting this post will give @steemcleaners an indication of how sycophantic I am, and who I'm a sycophant to. Or maybe dig deeper into the main users highlighted in this post. I didn't choose those users by accident and certainly not to carry favour.
Pretending?
Some of us are just decent people who are fed up with people taking the piss and abusing what could be a hugely successful social media platform - which would benefit everybody. But that won't happen until everybody involved finds some integrity instead of deciding to plagiarise, spam and farm because "it's common".
@endingplagiarism
The comment was not deleted. It was made invisible by the front end as all steemcleaners content appears to have been hidden from view.
Also, we are farming here on purpose. We have mentioned it ourselves that we will do it here, and we encourage everyone who has left Steemit for Hive, and still has some power left, to do the same. I don't know who you are where you have been but Steemit was taken over by sociopath, child-king Sun. All legit and self-respecting Steemian left for Hive over q year ago when Hive forked. There's no one here except Sun's toadies whales and the army if Tron/sycophants. All those accounts that earn dozens to hundreds of SBD in trending are Korean and Chinese stooges of Sun who circle jerk each other. You would need 30 million not 1 million to deal with that although you would probably not last long. They would quickly fork you 30 million out just as Sun hostilely did with old witnesses.
If you want to fight abuse on a legitimate platform, you should rather do it on Hive. Steemit is a scam kingdom controlled by thieves.
If you and I talked about the booming case a long time ago in a comment where you told me that this was an abuse of power, I don't know if currently bloming is still doing his misdeeds or they have already taken a letter on the matter, about the vote farm, I think it is difficult to stop because it would take a super powerful account and a great team to radical all the dirt that is on the platform, recently this account was doing the same as bloming and it is called nutbox.mine creating phantom accounts To take advantage of the steempower delegated by other users to receive a vote in favor, I have not checked the voting route of this account for more than two months, so I do not know if it is still doing the same thing as 2 months ago.
I read Steemcleaner's comment before he deleted it, I don't know how true that is, although I know that Justin Sun does not have a good reputation on social networks but on the platform he has not done anything improper that could harm us all, rather with his projects You are helping many people to improve their quality of life, although in voting farm issues I am noticing that they do not make a greater effort since by this means a large part of the liquid reward escapes that serves to reward original content such as you mentioned it.
I wondered when you might show up...
That's not spamming. That's sharing content which allows people who want to stop plagiarists and spammers from profiting on Steemit. It's commonly known as "a report". 1 per day is not excessive considering the regularity of payouts.
Here is a good example of spamming
Can you delegate all of your Steem to help stop plagiarism and spammers please?
Why shouldn't somebody who spends many hours stopping plagiarists and spammers get paid for their efforts? I assume you want your police department to work for free too and donate their wages to charity. I have no shame in admitting that I should get paid for the many, many hours I spend stopping people like you from profiting from their spam and plagiarism. The "boatloads of cash" (a term that is relative and understandable compared to the $8 per day you're spamming away) is insignificant compared to the tens of thousands of dollars that have been prevented from going to plagiarists and spammers.
As for the self-upvoting, you'll see that for a long period after this account was created that there wasn't a single self-upvote. The community recommended that I should self-upvote to increase the Steem and therefore increase my ability to stop plagiarists and spammers like you. Unlike most self-upvoters, I do it after others have upvoted so that I don't take away their curation rewards.
Once you've delegated me your Steem, then you'll have no reason to keep spamming and getting downvoted. Everybody wins.
I suggest you don't waste your time on those who were already kicked out from the community. They are like those beggars which you mostly find in a common society Because every community needs some beggars so they can donate their charity to them.
Prepetuator is one of them, So just chill and focus on your work. He/They doesn't want that you reach your goal and he gets kicked on his a** again.
You have a mute option - may be using it against these types of spammers is better than replying to them because they will keep defending until the admins don't freeze their account but the steemit team has a big heart and they say let them earn pennies so they can buy milk for their kids.
I appreciate your words. It's funny how the criticism comes from those that plagiarise and spam and not from the honest users.
I feel that using it would be perceived as an admission that I'm doing something wrong. Since I am not, I'm happy for perpetuator to continue spamming this post until his kids steal his phone/keyboard and/or mouse.
I'm sure many have tried and failed so I won't indulge you any further.
See you tomorrow 👋