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May 11, 2019, 11:04:04 AM
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Yesterday, 400 users got banned. The day before, 300 users got banned. Before that, there were about 50 bans per day. I keep track because of my banned users list, and every morning I see the total number of new bans. Since yesterday, there are much more topics in Meta asking why they are banned, including a Russian speaking DT1 member. I'm curious: what changed that lead to so many bans?
TotalsI started saving daily copies of modlog on January 3 this year. Modlog shows data from the week before, so this graph shows the daily running total for the previous week:  |
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hilariousandco
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May 11, 2019, 11:09:42 AM |
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Somone's been very busy reporting copy and pasters.
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LoyceV (OP)
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May 11, 2019, 11:18:14 AM |
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So someone created a working bot to detect them?
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May 11, 2019, 11:19:32 AM |
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Somone's been very busy reporting copy and pasters.
Or someone have develop a tools that detect copy and pasters thats a good thing. |
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hilariousandco
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May 11, 2019, 11:23:01 AM |
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So someone created a working bot to detect them?
I have no idea how he spots them but he does a good job. |
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May 11, 2019, 11:55:00 AM |
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Yeah someone was working on a tool like this one, I know who but I will not post the name maybe he/she wants to stay anonymous anyway
@LoyceV can you post a readable list of those users? (with rank of course and rep you can)
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May 11, 2019, 12:03:48 PM |
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So someone created a working bot to detect them?
I have no idea how he spots them but he does a good job. This kind of thing could be a business opportunity just like the new recovery process. Specially if he is able to identify copy and past that are translation of articles in another language. |
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May 11, 2019, 12:06:28 PM |
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I know who it is and I like it.  |
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hilariousandco
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May 11, 2019, 12:07:17 PM |
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So someone created a working bot to detect them?
I have no idea how he spots them but he does a good job. This kind of thing could be a business opportunity just like the new recovery process. Specially if he is able to identify copy and past that are translation of articles in another language. The person who is reporting them should probably just be made a mod and I've suggested so in the past. Seems silly us having to verify them and handle them all. It's quite time consuming. |
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May 11, 2019, 01:00:52 PM |
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@LoyceV can you post a readable list of those users? (with rank of course and rep you can) I didn't keep track per day, so I'll use the full modlog data for the past week: 747x Autoban 375x Nuke I'll ignore the nukes (they're Newbies), and show only the Autobanned users. Update: I tried to add the Rank to the list, but that failed. I won't scrape again just for that. Wow a good amount of users with "a lot merit" earned. Edit only 3, but so many with 10+ merits earned. |
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May 11, 2019, 01:44:54 PM |
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My question is why now? or is it just a coincidence that this accounts are getting banned as bitcoin is experiencing some upward price trend and due to pass experience it might bring in more members into the forum including old members (spammers) that took time off due to the bear market. Is the forum trying to get rid of all spammers
Is the forum (through the anonymous user/bot reporting this accounts) trying to perform some cleaning up getting ready for the traffic.
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May 11, 2019, 02:00:29 PM
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My question is why now? I don't think there is a specific reason as to why now. That script has been working for more than 9 months to my knowledge and the user behind it is not anonymous, many people know who that is (good job from me too ). I'm pretty sure he isn't targeting DTs, Russians or any specific signature campaign participants...as some comments in other threads suggested. I guess he had some free time to report. |
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May 11, 2019, 02:22:14 PM |
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Somone's been very busy reporting copy and pasters.
That means current action against plagiarism based on report, forum isn't detective it self. Don't know who is that but doing good job at all. So moderators also become very busy lately due to report  My question is why now?
Its really not matter of time. I don't think someone targeting any specific persons. This is just a normal procedure and moderators are verifying that before ban any account. Moderators are not just banning based on report, obviously they check report legitimacy. |
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May 11, 2019, 02:28:43 PM |
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 I'm pretty curious on who that user is, let me guess? ICOEthics? Coolcryptovator? Last guess would be iasenko? Anyways, that's already a ton of a job, I just tried to make a report about a 50 on the last day, and its pretty time consuming and it really gets me tired.
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May 11, 2019, 03:27:04 PM |
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So someone created a working bot to detect them?
I have no idea how he spots them but he does a good job. Suchmoon is transparently one of the people who is reporting plagiarized posts (I am not sure if this is who you are referring to). She is transparently scraping posts in the forum and putting them in some kind of database, which is concerning for a variety of reasons, including the type of business she is in and her lack of integrity. She is most probably cross referencing posts in her database with some other database and/or with google/another search engine. She also targets, in part specific members, and I know this because she was able to cite a plagiarized post that Redsn0w created from many years ago that was written in a thread with a very small number of posts, and the most recent post in the thread was also from many years ago. I would not make her a mod, and I think a decent number of people would leave if she was made a mod, or if it was discovered she was a mod. |
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