RE: Using TrufflePig for potential abuse detection - Human curation needed - Multiple $1,000s in rewards at stake
Hi, thanks for the reply! Sorry you lost power, but I'm glad it didn't last too long.
Yeah, the account you mention really had a split-personality. The owner did a lot of good things for the platform, but also many things that I didn't agree with. I was definitely not a fan of the retaliatory actions.
You're right about the capital outflow, I think.
There have been many attempts at something like a "task force" over the years, but it's a hard problem. I do see steemit trying to support the "endingplagiarism" account, recently, so we'll see how that goes. As we see here, though, the problem of abuse extends beyond just plagiarism. Recently, I have also noticed an increase in the people who are reposting old content - from here and elsewhere. If there's too much of that, I suppose it could drive Steemit down in web/SEO rankings. There's plenty to keep the abuse-fighters occupied. ; -)
You are right, the reputation of steemit would fall a lot due to the amount of garbage that is published every day, I do not know why but most of the plagiarists come from Bangladesh or Arabic language.
How many posts do you think is created daily on steemit?
It is very difficult to analyze each of the publications although it is true that artificial intelligence bots are good at detecting plagiarism but it detects it because the users are newbies, but there are professional users who look for content in other languages they modify some phrases and it is almost done impossible to detect plagiarism.
About using the bid bots I used it to test in my third to last publication to find out if it was profitable but I think it is not, more than anything I use it because it gives me pain after I spend hours writing and researching and I see my published in zero , I have not yet found a community that supports me, at the moment I will keep looking until it motivates me to write daily.
In the case of the publications mentioned in your publication, it is evident that users are not paying for the whale's services, because I could not notice any transfer to upmewhale requesting their service that gave me to understand that these accounts are the property of the aforementioned whale .
In the Chinese community there is a bot called nutbox.mine that has created a number of new accounts and each one gives a vote of 350 $ this whale is abusing the delegations that the community is giving to support the creators of actual content.
When I see these acts it causes me to have a powerful account to give negative votes and eliminate the reward for abusers.
I've seen nutbox in the context of their defi initiative. I didn't realize they were operating their voting bot that way, though.
In the end, we mostly just have to focus on doing what we can to support our own connections with our own stake. As they say, "Don't try to boil the ocean." If you keep at it and find topics that interest you to write about, then you'll find support. It just takes time.
Thanks for the advice I will keep it in mind, when I started in steemit I started at full speed now I am taking it more calmly, By the way, what is penny4thoughts? that has given me a reward for participating in one of your publications.
penny4thoughts is an account I set up with an experimental script In order to encourage and reward genuine discussions. If someone sends beneficiary rewards from their post to penny4thoughts, then it distributes the liquid portion to any commenters who get a 100% upvote from the author. Here's a description of how it's supposed to work, from a previous comment:
I already understood, if I configure the reward of my publication and I want 30% to go to pennythoughts, the bot will send that 30% to the users who participated with their comment in my publication, the reward will depend on what percentage of vote I give to the comment .
When I have more followers and my blog is more active I will use it without a doubt.
Close, but if you were to send 30% to penny4thoughts as a beneficiary setting, only the liquid portion of that would go to commenters because the other portion is powered up as SP and cannot be transferred. With current high SBD prices, it is pretty close to 30% going out, but if SBDs were worth a dollar, it would only be 15%.
Also, as the author, only commenters who receive your 100% upvote would get included in the reward sharing.
I understand. But I have a doubt, if penny4thoughts turns off its SP to reward when it makes the change from steem to SBD it would not be losing money. As you say, the price of the SBD is around 7.5 steem for each SBD.
Because I was seeing the reward of your publication that was 10 steem and taking account penny4thoughts distributed 5,488 SBD which is equivalent to 47.55 steem and according to the average reward for 10 steem in the publication is 4 SBD and as 5 SP I think mathematically that he is losing money.