[CLUB] The SpamBusters! Busting rule-breakers constantly.

Quote from: LoyceV on December 03, 2018, 09:17:17 PM

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I wanted to see how many posts I could get removed, planning to open a topic in Meta asking how much spam a user can post before he gets banned. But then I used this as a comment with my report:
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I was thinking to ask the same because sometimes I report more then 10-20 post of a user and he is not banned, sometimes it takes only 5.
It's up to a each moderator's policy. Sometimes some easy reports get handled very quickly but in between them there are reports like posting in other language in English section and it takes a few more hours to be handled.

Hello!

I try to clean up this one, thread started only one week ago and has already over 30 pages of spam comments. Not all of them look like paid bumps, so I will only report the obvious ones.
[ANN]First global sharing App|Share, Rent, Profit everything You want

I don't know how you handle cases like this one if it's possible to trash it? There are still few normal comments.

I'll update when I'm ready

Edit: Done, but better trash the topic

Another bull# Airdrop, filled for two days with 16 + pages with Good projet spam.
Reported a few, I'll report the whole thread at the end. If anyone wants to join you are most welcome Wink

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5079460.0

Update> The thread is now locked.

Very lazy copy-pasters Roll Eyes

Quote from: bananaunana on December 04, 2018, 06:49:29 PM

Very lazy copy-pasters Roll Eyes

You can report that as plagiarism here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.0.
The lazy guy will be banned.
I've reported similar one earlier today.
Here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg48441159#msg48441159

Quote from: iasenko on December 04, 2018, 06:53:57 PM

Quote from: bananaunana on December 04, 2018, 06:49:29 PM

Very lazy copy-pasters Roll Eyes

Done: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg48450286#msg48450286

I don't know if it's useful to report such cases for plagiarism, they will just create a new account and start spamming again.

We can't do much about it. All we can do is to get them banned and which raises the level of evil for the IP.
That's all we can do

Quote from: iasenko on December 04, 2018, 09:39:03 PM

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I don't want to move from the subject of the OP so you are welcome to the CLUB If you want to post your investigation.

Thanks for the invitation, I'd like to join the club, but I can only dedicate a few hours, mainly on the weekends to nuke these spammers from the forum... hope this is not a problem.
I'll copy here my reporter stats as a kind of application, so you can decide if you want to count me in your team or not (because my accuracy is not 100%):

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You have reported 725 posts with 99% accuracy (703 good, 10 bad, 12 unhandled). Do not worry about your accuracy too much; one accurate report is worth many inaccurate reports.

I'll check back a bit later if I'm accepted.

Quote from: bitart on December 06, 2018, 09:38:18 PM

Quote from: iasenko on December 04, 2018, 09:39:03 PM

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I don't want to move from the subject of the OP so you are welcome to the CLUB If you want to post your investigation.

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You have reported 725 posts with 99% accuracy (703 good, 10 bad, 12 unhandled). Do not worry about your accuracy too much; one accurate report is worth many inaccurate reports.

I'll check back a bit later if I'm accepted.

No worries, everyone are busy these days. You can report when it suits you. I put up a club approval procedure only to avoid adding spammers, so big part of the people who joined were people I know from before.

Thanks

I've found this post in the plagiarism topic, it contains 58 connected accounts (or it's stated there).
I've made an archive of it, just in case of need, becasue it was asked to be deleted because it's off topic there.
Shall we have a look at them or this is something different?

Edit:
I've just saw a new analysis about posts created in the last month. I've started to check the first few jr. member posters from the top 25, but most of them are bounty hunters with nearly or more than 1000 posts per month...
This is the top 25 table:

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on December 07, 2018, 04:03:34 PM

4. Top 25 Post Creators

The following list contains the top 25 net post creators in the one month measured period of time:

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userid    userName                      rankNow             nPostDiff nMeritDiff  URL
1740809   cryptolord2077                Full Member         1339      106       https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1740809
1741180   Mr.Spider703                  Jr. Member          1210      2         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1741180
1740777   Nekroser                      Jr. Member          1176      2         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1740777
1067333   micgoossens                   Hero Member         1044      197       https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1067333
1745083   kzel2226                      Newbie              989       0         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1745083
1742707   TaufiqPD                      Jr. Member          872       2         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1742707
1747050   bigguga                       Jr. Member          817       2         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1747050
2340148   Maggiordomo                   Member              761       2         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2340148
1746838   Tahir460pk                    Jr. Member          714       4         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1746838
1749739   lKSLMNSLKnkndlksnkJ           Jr. Member          656       5         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1749739
1808762   Rimidalv                      Newbie              617       0         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1808762
1176794   ChiNgadOr                     Full Member         585       0         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1176794
1745150   Pelana vreo                   Jr. Member          579       8         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1745150
2418049   johnyjeon                     Newbie              562       0         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2418049
1741267   Lusya8461                     Jr. Member          560       1         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1741267
808310    batang_bitcoin                Hero Member         547       3         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=808310
479624    Last of the V8s               Legendary           543       157       https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=479624
674078    Gothorum                      Sr. Member          542       0         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=674078
1016855   JollyGood                     Sr. Member          542       7         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1016855
1733317   minymax1212                   Copper Member       534       0         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1733317
2447560   joonjung                      Newbie              510       0         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2447560
675259    cokroalif                     Member              507       0         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=675259
1747779   Mamoot                        Member              502       10        https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1747779
392914    alevlaslo                     Hero Member         494       16        https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=392914
1745890   justhh                        Newbie              482       0         https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1745890

This is the first few I've checked:

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uid	posts	merits	
1740809	1339	106	Trader with a lot to say in the altcoin section, half of the hundred merits are not showing up
1741180	1210	2	offering Tx accelerator service, mainly 1-2 word posts, or one liners, merits are not showing up, probably deleted posts, haven't checked them
1740777	1176	2	bounty hunter, no meaningful posts, merits aren't showing up too
1745083	989	0	bounty hunter, no merits
1742707	872	2	bounty hunter, one of the two merits is for deleted post, the second is in local
1747050	817	2	bounty hunter and posting in local, one merit showing up, it seems the post worths it

I'll run thru the rest, even though I am under no illusions about the outcome...

I guess you are talking about this post, the old one was removed (moved to the proper section).
Everything that is worth reporting we should do report.
I'll try to go through the list tomorrow evening and see what can be reported.

Some members spamming news in various threads. Most of their messages contain nothing but copied text with the link.

Take a look at the post history of these profiles:

Show posts [BPIP] Full Member TOM47
Show posts [BPIP] Sr. Member Artemsv
Show posts [BPIP] Sr. Member Jekwizor
Show posts [BPIP] Sr. Member alexvilis
Show posts [BPIP] Member ~~gerymakgyaer~~ ^banned
Show posts [BPIP] Full Member Alexbt
Show posts [BPIP] Full Member Kirilp
Show posts [BPIP] Member sv.alyona
Show posts [BPIP] Full Member filsid
Show posts [BPIP] Member semsyor
Show posts [BPIP] Member fishervwb
Show posts [BPIP] Member gartmah
Show posts [BPIP] Member ~~crevbi~~ ^banned
Show posts [BPIP] Member Makleyhill
Show posts [BPIP] Member zerkalisz
Show posts [BPIP] Member Kriptobt1
Show posts [BPIP] Member temadanilevsky

Two accounts from the list are banned. Artemsv and Jekwizor have negative trust.

Basing on the merit stats from bpip.org and registration dates I suppose that these "news spammers" profiles could belong to one person.

Date Registered:
April 15, 2017, 10:45:36 AM - Jekwizor
April 17, 2017, 02:16:20 PM - alexvilis
April 21, 2017, 05:31:22 PM - gerymakgyaer
April 23, 2017, 01:54:26 PM - Alexbt
April 24, 2017, 08:11:41 AM - Kirilp
April 26, 2017, 01:53:04 PM - sv.alyona
May 01, 2017, 05:35:26 PM - filsid
May 02, 2017, 11:13:45 AM - semsyor
May 02, 2017, 12:07:27 PM - fishervwb
May 03, 2017, 08:44:17 AM - gartmah
May 03, 2017, 09:10:39 AM - crevbi
May 05, 2017, 09:18:58 AM - Makleyhill

Account farmer wrote in Russian locale that he has 17 accounts for paidposting on Bitcointalk. I believe that all his accounts are banned now, most for plagiarism.

Quote from: Boooogieeee on May 10, 2018, 09:12:47 PM

@SvenISO, ecть 17 aккoв, гoтoв coтpyдничaть.

In the thread "TPEБУETCЯ ПOCTИHГ B AHГЛOЯЗЫЧHЫX BETКAX" botmaster mentioned that he has a good experience for posting in English-language sections.

Quote from: Boooogieeee on May 11, 2018, 12:23:09 AM

@SvenISO - тeлeгpaмм . имeeтcя дocтaтoчнoe кoличecтвo aккayнтoв, и xopoший oпыт. Moжeм oбcyдить дeтaли.

How the community reacts to the announcements of hiring paidposters? After all, what they are writing often turns out to be a lie to attract clients to the scam projects and it is one of the main reasons of spam.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5046503.400

This project is still open, and the OP is spreading sh!t constantly.
I've reported him a few times, like when he answered one question in 7 consecutive posts.
I see same sh!t is still going on. I guess if more people report it he may be banned.

Btw looks like he is using paid bumps too.

Quote from: bitart on December 19, 2018, 10:07:07 PM

Does it worth a try to just scrape the database somehow for users like this and check them for anything fishy?

Have you seen Open scraped data of all the users - SQL Lite DB - 2.481.270 users? That should make it quite easy to make this list without scraping all accounts.