RE: Cheetahbot and ShadowBot [Abuse Detection]
If you are caught abusing ShadowBot OR Steemit in any way your account will be suspended and removed after 7 days.
What do you mean with suspended and removed? As far as I know you cannot suspend accounts and most of all removing them is impossible.
Once on the blockchain, always on the blockchain ;-)
While I understand what you're trying to do, I do have a fundamental issue with this.
This is namely that @cheetah is not always functioning properly.
The way you are now building the blacklist is erroneous, just check this post; https://steemit.com/spam/@a-alice/i-m-not-a-fake-2017828t2177951z
This girl was blacklisted although she did nothing wrong, and it's not the only instance last few weeks.
By you rebuilding a blacklist just on part of the blockchain data, you're not taking into account events that happened after the original blacklist.
Having said that, I don't think anyone, bot or human, should blacklist people without a thorough investigation of the account and they should always provide the reason why someone is blacklisted.
Good question. We maintain our own internal blacklist for this reason. If you are unfairly placed on the blacklist you just simply contact us and you are off after a quick review!
You are also correct we do NOT disable ANY user's steemit account and we NEVER down vote or do anything in any way to cause any type of harm to the user. We simply de-activate their ShadowBot privileges until they prove their account was placed on OUR blacklist unfairly.
Again software is only so good and much of our system relies on feedback from other systems and users. This is why we ultimately control the blacklist WE maintain at https://shadowbot.us/shadowbot/blacklist.php and manage it ourselves.