Do you know what these names have in common? I mean, besides being collectively blacklisted from using Minnowbooster services?
Names:
@mani0005
@vijaymaurya
@utkarshgupta
@sure40002
@sourab
@sonusharma
@colorstv
@sunny2502735
@jeetsingh
@priyapaul
@haidarali
@dhankar
@aparna
@pavanprasad
@surender.gahlot
@kataria
@kunalthik
@neer
@akash0
@stevesmith1802
@chetna
Taking a deeper look at these accounts reveals some troubling facts...
All these accounts seem to belong to same person or at least to the same group of people. Similarities start with same post handwriting, going from the lack of content, with just one smartphone photo, up to the same boost amounts, same low effort on all posts and same usage of tags. Leaving out the exact nature of our tools, users can verify the basic connections between these accounts by just taking a glance at their wallets.
What's alarming, is how fast a spammer's ecosystem can grow, if not put to a quick stop. Making accounts is easy and encourages spammers to create more low quality content.
What's wrong with these posts?
Some users tend to argue with us, that all photos are an art form and don't need additional text. But a simple smartphone photo of a half-eaten sandwich wont't do.
Boosting every photo that you have in your image gallery and doing that with more than 20 accounts has clear signs of intention to farm post rewards and abuse the Steemit platform.
Yes, the platform is monetized, but the monetary rewards are intended to go to people, who actually have put work and thought into their content.
Let it be noted again...
Minnowbooster won't harrass you over your post length, but we see low quality farming efforts from a mile away and refuse to boost your posts to the HOT section.
Through our efforts to clean Steemit up from time to time we find users that think they can abuse the system. Many times they are able to get away with it for a while but if you remember a while back we announced our new secret weapon, the @MinnowBooster Spam Detection tool then you'll know we mean business when it comes to preventing bad actors from abusing our service.
When it comes to making the Steem blockchain the best it can be @minnowBooster is truly committed. Help us in identifying bad actors like this and we will be happy to give them an all access pass to our growing blacklist.
Why choose @Minnowbooster?
Minnowbooster strives to provide a truly investor-class model for Steem investors who are either not good at curating content or do not have the time or inclination to do so and would prefer to earn a "Masternode like" competitive APR return on investment with daily payouts, and simultaneously empowering the community and stimulating the attention economy of the Steem blockchain.
Thank you again for your continued support as we work on providing the most socially beneficial toolset on Steem.
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Pretty much sure you meant Steem there.
BTW, good job!
@transisto.
hopefully their project is getting smoother and more advanced.
this is a good job and a great Steem project there
Good comment @transisto. Following you right away
Good thing these guys are caught and banned. Spammers like this not only make Steemit looked bad they even prevent legit authors that make quality content from buying large votes to boost their articles. Which is a big loss for the community as we could potentially lose talented authors. Therefore, great work @minnowbooster. Your actions would greatly benefit the community and would hopefully help great authors get their will deserved rewards.
it looks like @mantiroy is associated with these accounts also
Good! At least someone is making sure this platform won't lose it's credibility and future value. That's WIN-WIN for all of us :)
hopefully their project is getting smoother and more advanced.
this is a good job and a great Steem project there
It is good to see an upvoting service take responsibility for keeping Steem clean...
i think @nitind is part of it 2.
3 days ago Transfer 19.990 SBD from pavanprasad
yesterday Transfer 19.764 SBD from chetna
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yesterday Transfer 19.764 SBD to minnowbooster deposit
Thank you for bringing it to our attention ... Our team @reggaemuffin and @furios-one will have a look at this account
You are welcome. Give my regards to @reggaemuffin :-)
i need another robots
I'm sorry I was being hacked! I have deleted the spam and working on clean up! Love and Kisses @marie
I appreciate your time and effort, indeed tools will help in detecting plagiarism, and spammers. The blacklist must be shared across others like cheetah, steemcleaners etc. There are still many spammers in Steem ecosystem. Keep doing it and make steemit free from spams.
very good post kerry on
I think I'm gonna be a regular client for your services. I would also like to know more about leasing SP from the market. It's amazing how people expect to make something for nothing. If you want to get ahead in life, in area in fact, you have to be willing to put in the effort. No one is just gonna dish things to you. You want money? You must earn it.
Good job bro
thanks for share this post.
Spam exists because of the need for money,
Money exists because people need leverage over the help of survival,
People need to survive Because Life itself is Absolutely unstoppable 👍✨
Resteemed :-)
upvote resteemit
Great work from you
Amazing work :) keep Steem the cleanest place for every one :) Then only we Minnow can survive :) Noted with thanks.
@minnowbooster didn't know it was possible to get blacklisted. This would keep some from of order
I often use your services for the quality of my posts.
bot @minnowbooster is very useful to increase the curation rate of the steemians. Thanks @minnowbooster
This is good.Less garbage getting to the hot section. Keep it up.
Getting black listed is luckily not one of my goals 😋
It's really great post ...thank you for share
great effort keep sharing my friend
I am new to Steemit and I am looking for ways to get myself noticed.. I feel like my post get lost in the feed. Is this different from Minnow support? I am finding that there are a lot of different bots out there to try to help us... I just don't know which one to use? Hmmmm Thanks for sharing yours..
Need big money to get noticed right away, or already be a "social media influencer" from another platform. Using bots without a following or without being able to craft articles that are sure-fire ways to get whale votes is a waste of money.
When you're starting out, just comment. And maybe resteem less, so that the few articles you do write can be seen on your feed.
Don't use "..." so much. I don't know if you're South or Southeast Asian but the ellipses really makes it look like you are because they use it so much and, let's be real here, even if you were from there, it would be better for you if whales thought you were an American from Florida rather than just another spammer in a botnet from one of those regions.
Very interesting.. Thanks for your input @ charitybot.. I am trying to learn this platform as much as i can..lol As with anything , $ will alway help get you noticed.. and I will probably put some $ in to help get me started. but, I want to learn more before I invest. I am actively commenting on blogs, and I started to look at tags that I would like. So I can find more blogs I can would relate to. And I am sure there are other things I can do to further my audience . You learn as you go I reckon.. I am a real person from Florida, and my comments are real.So if that will help me.. I will take it.. lol
Thanks so much for your input..
Hi,
Yes this is different than Minnow Support Project
To know more about us check out this blog
https://steemit.com/minnowbooster/@minnowbooster/minnowbooster-explained
Oh thanks for that older blog.. That helped a lot. I read through that last night.. There is a lot going on here on Steemit.. I'm still kinda putting all the pieces together..lol
proper work
i love minnowbooster ♡
How do i buy upvotes for quality post that are not receiving adequate reward?
I appreciate you are taking good step against spammers. I think on Steemit platform only genuine content should be promoted. I recently joined @minnowbooster and I think it is offering good services as compared to other services.
The other day I found a few accounts that were consistently hitting the 'Hot' section with low effort, 1 picture posts without even a single line of text in them. These accounts made around 40 dollars per post.
It just baffles me that they were still getting support from their followers, because I just can't understand that anyone would want to support something as low quality as that.
"It just baffles me that they were still getting support from their followers . . " The reason is money
They are not here for photography, literature or to find the best chicken curry or masi goreng recipes.
They're here because their collective asses are hanging out in the corrupt violent societies they have the misfortune to live in - and they want OUT
Steemit may be that way.
Don't expect Hemingway or Helmut Newton content from them. There are much better ways to waste your time than on Steemit trying to find it
Yes it's true spammers are a crime that seizes the rights of other users 👍 Good job @minnowbooster .
I mentioned in the vote selling guide that MinnowBooster's Spam Detector is one of the biggest reasons to trust our vote to MB. The amount of effort being put in by the team is immense and I appreciate it.
.https://steemit.com/life/@fayjullah95/history-of-hazrat-abu-bak.....r-ra.please check your wallet yesterday am send you 0.050sbd but i am not resieve vote yet please check and vote me thanks
Did you send to me? Why?
Hello there. Thanks for sharing your content. I would like to consider myself as an Investor. I understand your "ToS" which i totally approve. The thing is, I haven't been able to get a decent vote since many weeks ago. I am one of the users who always publish the best content. I do not like
<p dir="auto"><em>out there. Could you please consider a whitelist so serious <em>bloggers like me may get a decent vote? May I suggest this:<span>I can see <a href="/@minnowbooster">@minnowbooster is one of the best option <ul> <li>Make a special service. You can charge in order to review the posts. You can create a whitelist and check those posts from time to time. This cost you time(you may hire somebody to do that). This is why you really need to create a premium service for <strong>serious bloggers only. <p dir="auto">Please take that in consideration so <em>the good bloggers can continue using your service. <p dir="auto">STEEM <img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://s5.postimg.org/wcab9nghz/icons8-om-48.png" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://s5.postimg.org/wcab9nghz/icons8-om-48.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://s5.postimg.org/wcab9nghz/icons8-om-48.png 2x" />trash-content.We did had a whitelist in the beginning but we dropped that idea as there were way too many good writers to be whitelisted there we made it open to everyone and instead started blacklisting
Ok. The thing is I cannot afford to invest more than 3 hours of my time, asking 10 - 20 mini votes of 1$.
Thanks for your time.
STEEM ON.
I would like to translate this content into Spanish for my community for those who do not know English .. if you give me your authorization I would appreciate it .. that will prevent future spamming
It would be really awesome if you do it ... Post us the link of your blog and we will help to boost it :)
here is my link I just wait for authorization and all the publications published by minnowbooster will translate it to spanish for the latin community
MY BLOG
https://steemit.com/@joelgonz1982
I am glad that some spammers have been weeded. Thank you for all that you do @minnowbooster.
This takes a ton of work to monitor, sure glad some is looking out while helping out - thank you! Upvoted and resteemed.
I checked first listed name and found the sandwich which actually made me laugh. :D
Why would anyone even bother posting low quality photo like that one? I believe people are not stupid enough to upvote meaningleess content.
I love this ive been on the platform for a while. Im learning everyday on content value. Its great to see people taking the time to see how we can eliminate those who keep abusing the system.
good job @minnowbooster thanks for share this post
This is well done. From the time I joined this platform 2 months, I have already noticed there are a lot of blogs which get 20 to 50 SBD just by posting a lunch or dinner picture. You're doing this platform a great service by noticing this and cautioning would-be users.
Thank you for doing your part on being more diligent and having better quality post requirements on what you will accept bids for up-vote, this place is in dire need a spam clean up and the many bid bots going around are getting abused with low quality content. Photography can be an art but not all photography is art and I agree a blurry smartphone photo or half eaten sandwich doesn't belong on the hot or trending page.Once again, your spam fighting efforts are appreciated.
Thank you very much for encouraging us with such cherish words :)
I used @minnowbooster for one of my post but couldn't get the Upvote.
very nice your post thanks MinnowBooster
I appreciate ur time And Effort on this
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Nice post
please check your wallet 6.3.2018 iam send you 0.050 sbd iam not recived vote yet please check and vote me thanks
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