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How to spot Rule-Breakers Guide. Intro : I think it's time for such guide. "Report to moderator" is an option which everyone should use on a daily basis so we can all together reduce the spam and the bot activity in the forum. It will be useful for the newbies too to know what they have to avoid doing in order to stay out of trouble.
I'm not the most skilled and efficient "reporter" that's why I need your help here so I can improve too and everyone can benefit out of it. Hope we can get some Mods on board too. No more bull#, lets start the serious work. How to detect rule breakers. Note > All your conclusions have to be based on the RULES, except for the last point. What to write in your reports you can find in the [Guide] Reporting effectively written by Welsh, its a MUST READ FOR EVERYONE.Detecting one-line spammers - Simple Techniques :
- Using Patrol link - this is one of the best tools you can find, gives you view of the last newbie posts from the whole forum. Here is a link to it > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol It is easy to have it listed above your "Watchlist". Just go to your profile page, click on the "Forum Profile Information" and put a tick on "Show patrol link:", btw there you will find another useful option not enabled by default "Show post count by posts:" which I recommend to enable. Searching through the patrol every now and then is easy to spot one line spammers, most of the time it leads you to our next point.
- Browsing trough Ann threads - this is really easy, you go to the ANN SECTION you open one ANN page and you check for spam comments. How you determine if a comment is spam I will list in examples sometime soon, for now you can see the next point as reference. When you report you get an accuracy rating.
- Advanced Techniques :
- Using the search engine for specific phrases like "good project", "good projekt", "nice project", etc. when you spend some time browsing through the ANN threads you will see a pattern in the spam posts, using all the time the same words and phrases. Those phrases you can use as a keywords in the search engine.
Detecting posts in other languages outside of the Local section - This is usually done when you search for homograph cheaters, in the search results often comes multiple messages in Russian or other languages. It is important to exclude the Local sections from the search.
Detecting copy/pasting, plagiarism - This is a bit more difficult, if you have the feeling that the guy has copied part of or all in his post then you can easily check the text in google, sometimes you get a 100% copy/paster sometimes, some words a changed but it's still a plagiarism. There should be a source mentioned in the post or the text should be quoted.
Detecting homograph attacks - Replacing some letters with the corresponding Cyrillic (or other alphabet) as they are lookalike, know also as homographs is not so difficult to detect as the forum search engine has the feature to search based on a single character. Great, what you do is to enter for example this >
Here is the result with one simple word "the", where "e" is Cyrillic, but you can see it. Try searching for it in the whole forum I you are lucky you may get a result like this
Resources > Cyrillic alphabet, just copy the letters not the codes. http://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/languages/europe/cyrillic/cyrillicchart/ Checking for homographs, copy the suspicious text here : https://www.textmagic.com/free-tools/unicode-detector
Detecting ICO pumping/bumping services- Those services are trying to keep specific ANN thread on the first page by posting in different forms every single day. I have reported quite some of those rule-breakers but most of the time those a bot accounts. There are different patterns to look for, most of the time are some "conversations" between different users quoting each other but posting only once per day. Usually those are accounts with 30-40 posts and it's really easy to be spotted by checking the post history. They have posts in the same thread every day, sometimes they are pumping more then 2-3 ICO simultaneously.
*See an video example 1Detecting activity which is not against the rules but is punishable by DT tagging. - Reporting account selling Since it's not handled by the mod's and selling accounts it is not against the rules, no need to user "Report to mods" button for it. Buying an account has high risk of getting yourself scammed, also a lot of scammers trying to hide their identity behind an established account with positive trust score. So such (potential) trades are handled by the DTs. Reporting is done here... link
- Reporting Merit abuse As merit system came, almost everyone is hunting for it. So came the abusers too. If you do not understand the system yet check this link It is not moderated by the forum staff, and again the TD's are taking care of shady merit behavior, like exchange of merit between accounts, meriting low quality posts, trading merit. etc. Reporting is done here Suspected users that are abusing merit 3.0 using a special format
*Report form see in Examples 2
- Reporting Alt accounts Having an Alt accounts is not against the rules as well, but you have to make it public, like leave a comment in your trust page that you own the accounts, and they are all related. There are specific rules in the most bounty/sig campaigns that you cannot joint with multiple accounts, only one account allowed so if those rules are broken you can report or there is a connection between accounts and its not officially announced you can report it here. Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk III (2018 Q3)
*Report form see in Examples 3
Additional Resources and tipsMany examples for the above mentioned descriptions can be found in my List of Rule-Breakers. You can use it as a reference until I finish the guide. - ModLog. Moderation Activity log
- SecLog Users change passwords activity log
- Report History. History of your reports. Note> not everyone has access only those with 300 or more good reports.
This guide is under construction. I just posted in the raw format so I can edit it from everywhere I login Hope it will be helpful.
Links for personal reference > List of Rule-Breakers.. | Comprehensive guide to Bitcointalk. | One (1) Merit point to Rank-up Service | BitcoinTalk Public Information Project (BPIP)Hi iasenko, sorry for the long quote, I'm hunting for the last lists If I won't manage to solve it, I'll remove the post. EDIT: I think I've found it. Please let me know if this is OK for you. Below you can find the code: [center][size=12pt][b]How to spot Rule-Breakers Guide.[size=12pt][b][/center] Intro : [size=8pt]I think it's time for such guide. "Report to moderator" is an option which everyone should use on a daily basis so we can all together reduce the spam and the bot activity in the forum. It will be useful for the newbies too to know what they have to avoid doing in order to stay out of trouble.
I'm not the most skilled and efficient "reporter" that's why I need your help here so I can improve too and everyone can benefit out of it. Hope we can get some Mods on board too. No more bull#, lets start the serious work. [/size]
[hr] [size=12pt][b]How to detect rule breakers.[/b] [/size]
[size=12pt]Note > All your conclusions have to be based on the [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0]RULES[/url], except for the last point. What to write in your reports you can find in the [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4519248.0][Guide] Reporting effectively [/url] written by [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=84521]Welsh[/url], its a MUST READ FOR EVERYONE.[/size]
[b][size=12pt]Detecting one-line spammers[/size] [/b] [list][li] [b]Simple Techniques [/b]: [list][li] [i]Using Patrol link[/i] - this is one of the best tools you can find, gives you view of the last newbie posts from the whole forum. Here is a link to it > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol It is easy to have it listed above your "Watchlist". Just go to your profile page, click on the "Forum Profile Information" and put a tick on "Show patrol link:", btw there you will find another useful option not enabled by default "Show post count by posts:" which I recommend to enable. Searching through the patrol every now and then is easy to spot one line spammers, most of the time it leads you to our next point.[/li]
[li][i]Browsing trough Ann threads[/i] - this is really easy, you go to the ANN SECTION you open one ANN page and you check for spam comments. How you determine if a comment is spam I will list in examples sometime soon, for now you can see the next point as reference. When you report you get an accuracy rating. [/li][/list][/list]
[list][li][b] Advanced Techniques :[/b] [list][li][i]Using the search engine for specific phrases like "good project", "good projekt", "nice project", etc. [/i] when you spend some time browsing through the ANN threads you will see a pattern in the spam posts, using all the time the same words and phrases. Those phrases you can use as a keywords in the search engine.[/li][/list][/list]
[size=12pt][b] Detecting posts in other languages outside of the Local section[/b][/size] [list][li] This is usually done when you search for homograph cheaters, in the search results often comes multiple messages in Russian or other languages. It is important to exclude the Local sections from the search.[/li][/list]
[size=12pt][b]Detecting copy/pasting, plagiarism [/b][/size] [list][li] This is a bit more difficult, if you have the feeling that the guy has copied part of or all in his post then you can easily check the text in google, sometimes you get a 100% copy/paster sometimes, some words a changed but it's still a plagiarism. There should be a source mentioned in the post or the text should be quoted. [/li][/list]
[size=12pt][b]Detecting homograph attacks[/b][/size] [list][li] Replacing some letters with the corresponding Cyrillic (or other alphabet) as they are lookalike, know also as homographs is not so difficult to detect as the forum search engine has the feature to search based on a single character. Great, what you do is to enter for example this > Here is the result with one simple word "the", where "e" is Cyrillic, but you can see it. Try searching for it in the whole forum I you are lucky you may get a result like [url=https://imgur.com/ItwkJ8R]this[/url]
[b]Resources [/b]> Cyrillic alphabet, just copy the letters not the codes. http://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/languages/europe/cyrillic/cyrillicchart/ Checking for homographs, copy the suspicious text here : https://www.textmagic.com/free-tools/unicode-detector [/li][/list]
[size=12pt][b]Detecting ICO pumping/bumping services[/b][/size] [list][li]Those services are trying to keep specific ANN thread on the first page by posting in different forms every single day. I have reported quite some of those rule-breakers but most of the time those a bot accounts. There are different patterns to look for, most of the time are some "conversations" between different users quoting each other but posting only once per day. Usually those are accounts with 30-40 posts and it's really easy to be spotted by checking the post history. They have posts in the same thread every day, sometimes they are pumping more then 2-3 ICO simultaneously. [/li][/list] *See an video [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3831432.msg37354009#msg37354009]example [/url][b][sup]1[/sup][/b]
[size=12pt][b]Detecting activity which is not against the rules but is punishable by DT tagging[/b][/size].[list] [li][b]Reporting account selling[/b] Since it's not handled by the mod's and selling accounts it is not against the rules, no need to user "Report to mods" button for it. Buying an account has high risk of getting yourself scammed, also a lot of scammers trying to hide their identity behind an established account with positive trust score. So such (potential) trades are handled by the DTs. Reporting is done here... link [/li] [li][b]Reporting Merit abuse [/b] As merit system came, almost everyone is hunting for it. So came the abusers too. If you do not understand the system yet check this[url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2534500.0#post_guide_merit] link[/url] It is not moderated by the forum staff, and again the TD's are taking care of shady merit behavior, like exchange of merit between accounts, meriting low quality posts, trading merit. etc. Reporting is done here [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.0]Suspected users that are abusing merit 3.0[/url] using a special format *Report form see in [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3831432.msg37354009#msg37354009]Examples [/url][b][sup]2[/sup][/b] [/li] [li][b]Reporting Alt accounts [/b] Having an Alt accounts is not against the rules as well, but you have to make it public, like leave a comment in your trust page that you own the accounts, and they are all related. There are specific rules in the most bounty/sig campaigns that you cannot joint with multiple accounts, only one account allowed so if those rules are broken you can report or there is a connection between accounts and its not officially announced you can report it here. [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2544574.0]Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk III (2018 Q3)[/url] *Report form see in [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3831432.msg37354009#msg37354009]Examples [/url][b][sup]3[/sup][/b] [/li] [/list]
[size=12pt][b]Additional Resources and tips[/b][/size] Many examples for the above mentioned descriptions can be found in my [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2977866.0] List of Rule-Breakers[/url]. You can use it as a reference until I finish the guide. [list] [li] [url=https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php]ModLog[/url]. Moderation Activity log [/li] [li] [url=https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.php]SecLog[/url] Users change passwords activity log [/li] [li] [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=reportlist;mine]Report History[/url]. History of your reports. Note> not everyone has access only those with 300 or more good reports.[/li] [/list] [hr] This guide is under construction. I just posted in the raw format so I can edit it from everywhere I login :) Hope it will be helpful.
[hr] Links for personal reference > [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2977866.0] List of Rule-Breakers..[/url] | [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2534500.0] Comprehensive guide to Bitcointalk.[/url] | [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3108981.0]One (1) Merit point to Rank-up Service[/url] | [url=http://dev.martinlawrence.ca/]BitcoinTalk Public Information Project (BPIP)[/url]
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