The Danger of High Reputation (Possibly Compromised/Hacked) Spam Accounts

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Spam is annoying for all of us. For new users who are not very well versed in crypto, they could mean the loss of their funds and a potential broken trust in cryptocurrency and freedoms we love and they might become more willing towards government regulation and/or custodial assets where your crypto will be held by banking institutions made almost impossible to withdraw.

There are all sorts of spam. The ones that seem to come from an important place are the ones that can fool the most amount of people. It has come to a point where a account with Reputation score of 69 ca become a spammer (or worse - I didn't follow the link that was posted)

This was under a @splinterlands giveaway results post I had made earlier today. After each 9 Reputation levels, the next 9 levels become 10 times harder. You can read here how it is calculated. In simple terms, a large number you can find at https://hiveblocks.com/@username has its log base

  • -9
  • *9
  • +25 (This is why Reputations starts at 25)

and the number you get is rounded to the nearest integer. Every upvote increase the reputation. The reverse is only true if the downvoting account has higher reputation than the account being downvoted.

Muting Doesn't Help (The Ecosystem)

It can be easy to simply click on this button and keep the spam out of your sight. But it won't be going away from other users. These high reputation accounts who have been around for years (in this case, over 3 years) could be compromised accounts. Maybe some of them turned to the dark side or just decided to be plain annoying.

Use Your Free Downvotes

I was ageist the free downvotes and I think free downvoting power equivalent to 25% of the voting power is just too much. I almost never use this. But at times like this, it is very convenient when asking the community to wage some downvotes for a just cause.

  • The spam are not helping anyone
  • It is annoying
  • Spam could potentially lead to scams and other cybercrime
  • It is bad for the platform

Calling All High Reputation Accounts

You are the ones who are capable of taking the reputation of these spam accounts down. They are even earning rewards for the spam they have been posting. This use I discovered is @maikuraki There could be many more. Feel free to share about them below.

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A bit of sewage from Steemit, clearly

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I just checked and figured out the STEEM account has 6,135.494 SP. It's probably someone who want to make things worse for HIVE.

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I think there are several accounts like that that have just popped up on Hive this week. China is fighting back. Maybe k.steemit is finally about to sink into the pit it is long overdue to fall into

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I'm still powering down my STEEM. I decided to take the exit slow. I'm waiting for a great pump from Justin Sun. That's pretty much the only good thing he is bringing to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. These are some long investigative articles if you are interstd:

https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china
https://decrypt.co/38050/steem-steemit-tron-justin-sun-cryptocurrency-war

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I dumped my Steem as soon as I got my Hive airdrop, couldn't get away fast enough!

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They did make it easier with a 4 week power down (which I think of as a terrible move) I still cross post on STEEM. There are still good people left there. I have promoted HIVE DAPPs there and it is nice to milk some TRON rewards on top of the extra STEEM. I have also been Hunting many HIVE DAPPs on STEEM Hunt with the latest being this one: https://steemhunt.com/@vimukthi/buymeberries-buy-me-a-coffee-alternative-on-blockchain-to-accept-donation

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Do you translate your posts into Korean? :)

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No, I don't. I don't speak Korean and translators rarely make great translations.

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I have been here over 3 years in combination when we were still in Steemit and took me this long to get to 69. Wonder how long it took that spam account to get there? Probably a few hundred dollars and self upvote for a few weeks before they went using it in public for spamming. These type of efforts is degrading and devaluing the hive ecosystem.

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If they community bothered to find out and downvote these real spam, it wouldn't be a huge issue. There is also the chance that the account got somehow compromised or the owner sold the account during the bear market. Either way we can't censor these posts. We have to use the tools we have been provided to fight this abuse.

There were few more spam posted by @maikuraki and I have downvoted them all.

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