What does @mack-bot do?
@mack-bot's sole purpose right now is to provide a token or marker downvote on known farming accounts immediately after they publish a post or comment. Currently it is running locally on one of my desktops but I have leased a VPS that my bots and scripts will be moved to in the next few weeks to ensure they run smoothly with a 100% uptime.
@mack-bot is currently leaving comments in reply to both posts & comments that have been downvoted and will do so for the next 14 days. After that it will only downvote to prevent adding unnecessary spam to the block chain. I have over 14,500 accounts on my list and have found one or two that were false positives. I want to ensure that anyone who is downvoted and is not part of a farm can contact me to review their account and remove it from my list.
How can this benefit @spaminator & the community?
While the downvote has no real weight or effect on the the account reputation, post or comment it serves to identify active accounts. @spaminator will use this to follow up with a heavier downvote about 6 days after @mack-bot's downvote to remove any pending rewards.
All community projects and bots are encouraged to follow both @cheetah & @mack-bot votes. By adding code to your bots to check for a flag from either account before upvoting you can help stop these farms from profiting. @minnowbooster is the first community project to follow both bots.
Witness #59
Vote for my witness here.
Wittnesses I vote for and support:
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Current Projects: @steemcleaners 🙣 @spaminator
I know you're working behind the scene, members of the community need to know your hard work. I voted up and resteem this post.
Well done job.
@yehey
Thank you!
Youre very welcome and I will continue to support your project.
Awesome @patrice! I'm glad to see Steemians like you working so hard on making this a more wonderful place. You rock!
you are so awesome, @patrice! I love how hard you work for this community, I can't even understand how dedicated you are!!!!! incredible!
she is more than anyone would think!!! <3
@inquiringtimes @meanmommy33
Thanks you two!
Good stuff Patrice, as always. Well done. You really do have your head in this game!
Great news! Abusers and spamers must be punishes, and Steemit deserves to be a cleaner place. Thank you for doing this hard work. Steemcleaners, Spaminators + mack-bot - it's a hefty bunch of work. My respect!
One month ago I opened "new" and caught 73 such assholes in 1 hour. You can check my old post and maybe find some new names for your list. https://steemit.com/steemit/@erikaflynn/new-abuse-on-steemit-tons-of-meaningless-posts-from-new-users
Resteemed and voted for you as a witness.
I found 490 new accounts from that group yesterday. I'll probably get some more today when they get done posting. @mack-bot has been busy already today.
Thanks!
Cool! Glad to see all these tools come into being... thanks for all the work you do to keep things "clean" around here.
I imagine (like cheetah) that upvotes from the community are welcomed to help support the venture and give it more "teeth."
Absolutely! I'm not much of a writer but after the 14 days and I stop commenting I'll find time to post a picture of the real "Mack" on occasion.
We do know her works off the Records, i often see people bombarding her with messages and i know how hard it would be to have time for Chitty-chat.
I have a tiny power but i still upvoted and Resteemed with a follow!
Great job Patrice. I'll add @mack-bot to my highlighter algorithm so nothing flagged gets through, although I doubt that either the ssg or vets communities have comment farmers.
Hey @patrice - what are farming accounts or comment farms?? How can we identify them? Thanks.
Very cool! Many users of Steemit.com are getting fed up with bot comments and something like this could really help. I was thinking of doing something similar with a "mute list" of sorts which people could crowdsource and use to ignore the noise.
At the same time, I wonder if muting accounts is enough as muted accounts could be voting up their own comments to take from the rewards pool without providing any value and it would be harder to spot if they are mostly muted. Either way, I love seeing innovations like this working to improve things. Well done!
Thank you. I'm working on streamlining some things for @spaminator & @steemcleaners that will get the community projects involved in preventing rewards being paid out to accounts that post spam & other abuse.
The service bots are another problem but I've been on the fence and I really just encourage the community to flag them if they don't like them and upvote them if they do. I don't feel that it should be up to one person or group to decide what is or isn't beneficial to the community in that regard.
I'm going to publish a post under @spaminator soon on the importance of community participation in flagging as a way to provide feedback to bot owners.
I didn't know you were a witness! Voting for you now 😁
Patrice is the gift that keeps on giving. Retrofitting health monitoring & response services, liaising with the community, tending appeals & other Discord channels - Zoe's lucky to get a walk at all!
Thanks for everything you do for us, to you and the whole team @ spamminator & SC. I don't do interpretive dance, so to celebrate, here instead, an artistic impression, illustrated in trope, to communicate the net effect of Mack-Bot through image & humour (I hope); a-hem...
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Mack will lay down the smack!
Can you explain to me why steemcleaners has decided to downvote our Veteran's bot @shadow3scalpel after being approved by you? You are hurting the veteran's community and haven't given a proper warning or anything.
Fixed it. It shouldn't have been flagged. Gave a couple upvotes to counter @blacklist-a since we don't control it.
Thanks a lot for all your efforts ;-)
Big hug
Steemitri The Mannequin
Hi @patrice
I think these guys are farming/same account. What a mess :(
@dags https://steemit.com/dags/@dags/20171117t112855640z
@whocares https://steemit.com/whocares/@whocares/20171117t112859471z
@freakred https://steemit.com/freakred/@freakred/20171117t112855616z
Thanks for your great work!
Thank you! I'll have a look!
excellent work ..
Thanks. Mack's been busy.
https://steemit.com/spaminator/@mack-bot/flag-report-12-1-2017
hi patrice, Why did you added my account in your downvote list. I am just using my steemit account on steepshot and sharing my personal images. All the images that i shared till now is my personal stuff. So, I request you to please remove my account from your blacklist.
Thankyou
Please reply, all of my community members account has been downvoted. Atleast give us a single chance. I am the only one who is guiding them to post and they all are just following me. But now I assure you that no spamming will happen in future and if it happens you are free to do the same thing. Its my humble request to you, please remove our accounts from the black list. We are also using steemvoter in which we all get each others upvotes automatically.
please remove on your list
@patrice honestly your thinking is too much great. I personally encourage you. If I have effort I obviously helped you from my deep mind. You done the right thing. I appreciate your thinking and plan keep going on.... this community needs member like you. make decent and come back with beauty of blogging.
If you can please change the rules, that now steemit isn't for good content.... It is all about whales zone. every who has sbd/steem or sp gotta go in the hotlist in fact trending list too. I am not telling that posts isn't worth of it but there re too much better content in the community we should take care of them too.
[And last but not the list, It its my humble request that @mack-bot already pointed many steemians where some are innocent or even don't know why this is happening with him. So please after finishing @mack-bot 's current project remove them from your blacklist.]
I am commenting through my friends steem id cause @mack-bot cracked me too. and now If I comment anywhere the bot also downvote there too. I am newbie... I requested my total group/community that all of their id's voting power spend on me and help me to grow up in reputation 50+. This is my dream. My community appreciate me and helping me, I also gone to reputation 43+ in the mean time @mack-bot crack me and my reputation is now 39/38. I am so upset. If you can please help me. opps sorry.... My nane is tanisa and my id is @tanisa. with me without any reason @mack-bot blacklisted my friend @tasif too. I know you are busy enough. But it is a poor & helpless girls request that if you can please helo us.