The Shit Post Wipe Up... 1/28/18

As I have become minimally infamous for the #shitpost series wherein I call out users that abuse the platform for personal gain, I figured I would do a follow up on those I have outed and document what, if any progress we made towards cleaning up the platform.

But first, I have on occasion caught flak from other users for my proactive and somewhat aggressive method of outing and subsequently going after those that choose to abuse our fair community through nefarious and self serving means.

I have been downvoted for alerting lessors that the SP they were leasing out was being used by a bad actor in a way detrimental to the community. I have also been compared to the East German Stasi (secret police), called the moral police, a witch hunt creator and accused of being more abusive than those that consistently farm the rewards pool.

However, for every negative, I generally receive X3 the positive from other members whom actually care about the site, its long term health, and the greater community.

• Members like @troglodactyl; whom stepped up and immediately countered downvotes by those whom wanted me to turn a blind eye and let the abuse continue.


• Members like @protegeaa; a delegate I alerted whom cancelled the delegation for the abuser, kept his word and began upvoting my posts as a thank you for my work towards keeping the community clean.


• Members like @cryptographic, @gregory-f, @libertyteeth etc. all have shown a great sense of community by helping me out from time to time by either countering malicious downvotes or promoting me when I had nothing to offer in return.


• Let me not forget those on the @minnowbooster @steemcleaners and @mack-bot team; @furious-one, @reggaemuffin, @logic and @patrice whom have been proactive in blacklisting accounts or going after accounts when notified and been very supportive of my repeated submissions to the various abuse channels.


• Members like @fbslo for delegating me some free SP to combat these morons


• Lastly you have other minnows like me @aussieninja, @bethwheatcraft and @ervinneb whom work with me to tirelessly promote each other’s content as we strive towards our whale destinies.

It is members like those above and many others that show the sense of community that gives me hope in the platform and motivates me to continue doing what I am doing for its betterment.

So let us do a recap of our efforts and results.

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Our first winner was @pradeeprajora

Article: https://steemit.com/steemit/@pawsdog/please-join-me-in-flagging-a-shit-post-and-reward-pool-abuser

He was essentially on the low end of shit posters by stealing FB images, posting them to later upvote with bots in excess of $60 SBD per post. Our efforts were successful in that they changed his pattern of behavior, the account is essentially dead now, and he has not as of yet not repeated his abusive behavior.

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Winner: @amanat1993

Article: https://steemit.com/shitpost/@pawsdog/the-shit-post-diaries-1-12-18-2

A slightly more damaging shit poster he would post random bullshit images of a camera, a ceiling fan, the sky etc. and robo buy votes at the last minute. He actually banked a couple thousand through his scheme. Now he is blacklisted by @minnowbooster, @upme and his self serving fuckery has been severely impacted. Although I see he may be under the mistaken impression he has been forgotten as he recently leased some SP, bought a few more late votes and may be attempting to once again travel the path of self voting with leased SP; accordingly I encourage readers to once again peruse his blog and show him love where appropriate.

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Winner: @shaileshgiri

Article: https://steemit.com/shitpost/@pawsdog/the-shit-post-diaries-1-17-18-3

A typical youtube video thief that buys votes and self upvotes. While my write up was good, I think we failed in our follow through as her behavior is for the moment going unchecked and is essentially the same as it was prior to our efforts.

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Winner: @ryacha21

Article: https://steemit.com/shitpost/@pawsdog/the-shit-post-diaries-1-17-18-4

@ryacha21 had $35,000 in leased SP he was using to upvote his own shitty comments in the last few minutes before they were due to pay out. He now has $9,000 SP as numerous delegates dumped his punk ass thanks to our efforts and recalled their SP. Outing him also forced him to go on an upvote everyone else spree to hide his previous bad behavior. You can go here https://steemd.com/@ryacha21 and think of his voting history as pre and post @pawsdog intervention. I believe around page 6 I started showing him love and he had up until that point never voted for anyone but himself. So we made progress, impacted his shitty behavior and motivated him to spread some curation mana around. He was also banned by @minnowbooster and a few others which will curb his ability to lease SP and pay for self votes in the future

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Winner: @kospi

Article: https://steemit.com/shitpost/@pawsdog/the-shit-post-diaries-1-26-18-5-hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-steemian-scorned

This idiot was actually somewhat interesting I that he would continually post a single bible verse per day and then use leased SP and Bots to upovote it. He would also make a shit ton of spam comments on his own posts and then use the leased SP to upvote those as well. He is, at this moment still a work in progress, though @mack-bot and @patrice have been notified and begun cleanup efforts on some of his posts. That said there is still much work to be done if we go here:

• https://steemit.com/bible/@kospi/genesis-6-1#@kospi/re-kospi-genesis-6-1-20180127t032419288z

There are still a ton of spam self upvoted comments in need of purging and I invite all to show him some love.

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Honorary #shitpost mention: @jonesteemit

I would also like to give an honorary #shitpost mention to @jonesteemit, whom as of yet has not been awarded and entire article dedicated just to him, but is another self serving shit poster that went down the road of posting comments with sequenced numbers 1,2,3 etc and upvoting them on 4 month old posts. What I find to be particularly annoying about him is that he fails to take responsibility and show actual contrition for his actions. Instead he is upset he got caught and is currently suffering the penalty of @mack-bot and @patrice while arguing with me here about his behavior:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@jonesteemit/why-is-the-best-time-to-power-up-your-steem-power-at-this-moment-or-benefits-or

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That’s the recap, Steem On… Together we can make a difference; we can impact these selfish morons and make their schemes considerably less profitable. We just have to be dedicated and consistent in our efforts and check back up on them from time to time and show them more love when appropriate.