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Title: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: Piggy on July 04, 2018, 10:21:20 AM (Opened initially this on Reputation with the idea most "Merit/alts investigators" would be in there but turn out they may be actually in here as well, if you are an Investigator, i suggest you read this, it may make your work easier)
Hi, i had made this tool visualization of the Merit Network to find merit sources: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4584759.0 But actually found out it may be good to find abusers as well. This visualization show the merit connections happened between users and in one of these version i marked also the red trust level for each user: In here you can see who was red trusted(red), who is not(azure) and who is trusted (green) Updated to Sunday 1st of July Link to the tool below: https://albertoit.github.io/Merit-Network-Visualization/?config=config_Trust.json https://albertoit.github.io/Merit-Network-Visualization/images/2a.png Now if you move along the peripheral area of this circle you see in the picture, you will notice a lot of points (users) isolated from the rest, these could be transactions happened between alts or abuse in general(some in fact were already spotted as you can see): Example 1: https://i.imgur.com/7d4UX9w.png Example 2: https://i.imgur.com/y6WQPY7.png If anybody has the time and will to go through these would be quite convenient as you can see immediately:
If you have any questions ask. More over: when you have identified some person of interest, you can use this other tool to output a list of the merit transactions with clickable links to the user profiles and message merited in the forum Go here: https://albertoit.github.io/Merit-Explorer-SQL/ You can specify in the last line the name of the user you want to search for ( in this example theymos) Code: WHERE UserData.Username like "theymos" paste this in the box to see the merit sent from the user Code: SELECT paste this in the box to see the merit received from theymos Code: SELECT One real case research example i went here: https://albertoit.github.io/Merit-Network-Visualization and found this user hrbt: https://i.imgur.com/psAl11K.png then go to see the same in here: https://albertoit.github.io/Merit-Network-Visualization/?config=config_Trust.json https://i.imgur.com/equ02sa.png Run this query in here: https://albertoit.github.io/Merit-Explorer-SQL/ Code: SELECT Result, i display the links of: who sent, who received and a link to the message merited: Quote 2018-02-17T16:20:47 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=340808 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1349874 15 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2495721.msg30181948#msg30181948 2018-02-16T13:50:44 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=340808 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1031556 50 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2728315.msg30370848#msg30370848 2018-02-15T21:15:19 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=340808 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1005975 50 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2728315.msg30354958#msg30354958 2018-02-14T16:33:51 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=340808 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1192328 50 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2211728.msg30188246#msg30188246 Done, the situation in here is pretty clear. Title: Re: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: mdayonliner on July 04, 2018, 10:28:48 AM (Opened initially this on Reputation with the idea most "Merit/alts investigators" would be in there but turn out they may be actually in here as well, if you are an Investigator, i suggest you read this, it may make your work easier) Also I hope a mod can enlighten us in what condition/s a topic can be on more than one board. However, I have seen somewhere a mod said you can have same topic in more than one board. May be - you want to look for the reference or if any mod gives a feedback in here then it would be nice. Good to see the topic here as well. Title: Re: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: locsta123 on July 04, 2018, 09:23:06 PM wow this is pretty intense and interesting I don't quite understand it, but pretty cool none the less. So it is used to find people that are abusing the merit system? Because you will see merit sent over and over to the same user or something like that?
Title: Re: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: Piggy on July 05, 2018, 07:38:42 AM wow this is pretty intense and interesting I don't quite understand it, but pretty cool none the less. So it is used to find people that are abusing the merit system? Because you will see merit sent over and over to the same user or something like that? Yes, could be used to find people which potentially abused the merit system and their alts. When you see a small group of nodes completely detached from the network having connections with each other or with one of the node in particular, maybe something is up. You can have a confirmation eventually by looking at the comments merited as i did with the example above. Title: Re: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: Jet Cash on July 05, 2018, 08:15:31 AM I'm on the wrong computer at the moment, but I can see that there could be a positive use for this analysis, as well as the negative hunt for abusers.
I'll have a look later to see if I can improve my policy for awarding merits. Title: Re: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: Piggy on July 06, 2018, 06:32:51 AM Out of curiosity i just run a search for people using the same ETH address in the Location field in their account, these are probably alts.
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trying to put some of these name into the graph network: Haunebu and 3kpk3 direct connection https://i.imgur.com/CbBMDsg.png Jerzzz and Boknoyz not direct connection but you can see is a couple of nodes away https://i.imgur.com/0h1GpMQ.png Title: Re: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: TheBeardedBaby on October 25, 2018, 06:43:18 AM So sad that it's outdated now. I almost forgot about it.
Title: Re: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: Piggy on October 25, 2018, 07:44:49 AM So sad that it's outdated now. I almost forgot about it. I will update it again one of these days, the problem is that takes some time, as require few iterations and tools to come up with this result. Title: Re: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: wwzsocki on May 18, 2019, 07:30:08 PM I will update it again one of these days... Sorry that I post in such an old thread but this tools seems to be very useful but are not updated from a very long time. Merit Network Visualization tool still works with no problems (just checked) and maybe this is possible to update with the latest merit data. Title: Re: Tool it may help spot abusers/alts - Re-post from Reputation board Post by: Piggy on May 20, 2019, 05:23:36 AM Sorry that I post in such an old thread but this tools seems to be very useful but is not updated from a very long time. Merit Network Visualization tool still works with no problems (just checked) and maybe this is possible to update with the latest merit data. Unfortunately is quite time consuming to get it updated, since it's involving working with different tools i wrote before and after having the all graph layout ready in gephi (https://gephi.org/). I don't have much time on my hands to do it. :-\ |
