[FARM SUPPRESSION] Clearing the Horde of Spammers

[actmyname]

Update: there are now 324^(!!) users with 10 or more good reports against them. 80 of those users have 50 or more reports, and of those 50, 17 have 100 or more reports.


Since there were only two high activity days, here is the breakdown.

(Aug 7 to Aug 8)

Code:

108| MFahad
76 | Thomas-s
71 | Indrawan77
65 | Noilee
60 | poldanmig
60 | immortal4now
56 | Viscore
53 | Dhoe
51 | Maamejane
50 | biangkerok
49 | Lexurdania
47 | DarkIT
47 | Burogh
45 | fuer44
44 | litepool.ru
40 | tungaqhd
40 | Ss4sukE
40 | seramania
40 | r_delossa
40 | Pom_bensin
40 | mitchr4
40 | GreenStox
40 | DonFacundo
40 | CoinCollect
40 | BluRPie
39 | leetcoiner
38 | cryptoknightt
37 | sweetbet
37 | March21
35 | Striker17
35 | AwoCorporation
35 | aliceHortrex
34 | Finestream
34 | Eraldo Coil
33 | Farma
32 | restuibu
31 | qomariah95
31 | killerfrost
30 | kramat
29 | thirdlight
29 | icekohl
28 | Enzo05
27 | riso2015
24 | dedocry
23 | zhekinsp
22 | Jpti
22 | fulled
21 | mnporter2001
20 | jyotianand01
20 | HobbitMud
19 | phamminhtan
19 | NotoriousHodler
18 | tycsols
18 | KuCoin Exchange
18 | Congyang
18 | 103deltafox
17 | shadowdio
17 | ongkok87
16 | goaldigger
15 | sinta23
14 | flagpara
14 | Apes
13 | Ranly123
11 | trust7
11 | Coltpython
10 | JohnBitCo
10 | Jakral

Total reports: 2827
Total good: 2397
Total users: 99
Average reports/user: 24.21
Worst offender: MFahadNote: there are still numerous chunks of unhandled reports... they might be touched later. All statistics in the second post use the snapshot of the entire report history at the time of editing.

[DaveF]

After reading this thread and the Limits of s--tposting thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5133932.msg50683160#msg50683160
I started to wonder how many people are having, somewhat intelligent conversations with themselves.

Take a look here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5174189

Yes it's all legit as far as I can tell. But, after thinking about it, how difficult would it really be to have a new account ask a question and then have 2 or 3 of your other accounts have a discussion about it over a couple of days. Keep repeating. Other people will join in, some merit will flow. So long as you are not a total idiot and don't post in broken English how many posts can someone get away with?

If you don't think of it as posting but, instead think of it as typing out a conversation it seems much easier to hit 3 campaigns @ 25 or 30 posts a week.
Or a little more then 1 post per account per hour for a 8 hour day 3 days a week. Sitting at home on your couch. Not going to be "rich" but if all 3 are @ .0125 week you are at over $20k for part time work.
Not great not terrible.

Lets be honest:

Does anyone here REALLY know that I am not actmyname and PrimeNumber7 ?

-Dave

[actmyname]

If you don't think of it as posting but, instead think of it as typing out a conversation it seems much easier to hit 3 campaigns @ 25 or 30 posts a week.
Or a little more then 1 post per account per hour for a 8 hour day 3 days a week. Sitting at home on your couch. Not going to be "rich" but if all 3 are @ .0125 week you are at over $20k for part time work.
Not great not terrible.

After flooding my eyes with scores upon scores of these inane posts, I can certainly agree with you.

A smart account farmer would create a hierarchy of "intelligence" between their accounts. Set aside some accounts to act ignorant and ask stupid questions or make uninformed remarks and then respond to them with your "smarter" accounts. This guarantees at least 3 posts with user A asking the question, B responding and A reaffirming the answer (or potentially continuing with pretend-ignorance).You could easily feign conversations and have all your accounts accompany one another in the same threads, lowering the amount of time for searching through viable threads of meaningless discussion.

Trivia: from July 13 to today, we have a total of 16790 reports. The holistic count would be 21369. Today's total is at 1490 (currently) with 1461 unhandled reports (pending or otherwise).

[PrimeNumber7]

You could easily feign conversations and have all your accounts accompany one another in the same threads, lowering the amount of time for searching through viable threads of meaningless discussion.

It should set off red flags if the same group of people are always participating in the same threads. If you compile a DB of everyone's posts that includes at a minimum the thread ID, this should be fairly simple to detect, and if the reply number, or the date/time of the post is also tracked, one should be able to detect this with few false positives if a sufficiently strict criteria is used.

[malevolent]

Or the farmer could work with other account farmers, the more accounts involved, the harder it would be to detect them.

[DaveF]

Or the farmer could work with other account farmers, the more accounts involved, the harder it would be to detect them.

Yep, and the other "issue" would also be sig campaigns like the mintdice that I am wearing now.
For a hero, it's $2 / post but max 25 posts week paid. 5 of which are supposed to be in the gambling sections.

Hate to say it, but although some people think limiting # of posts cuts down on spam, it just makes farming easier because the bar is that much lower.
I hit the 25 posts, get my $50 then switch to the next account say with bitdice get my 30 posts for another $85 for 30 posts and then sports bet for $100 for 25 posts.
So 80 posts a week in my 3 "real" accounts gets me $235 Total that up it's $12,000 /year for what can be considered part time work.

Adding in the "Stupid" accounts making 80 shit posts that the 3 accounts are talking too does not take up too much time because they are not what you really care about.

Double that you are at 160 real posts, say 160 fake posts and $24,000 a year.
Using those #s you have 320 posts a week, / 40 hours is 8 an hour.
Assuming you hit the 160 fake posts, which is a lot. Because you can respond to other low thought posts and the ones in that are just replies in the gambling forum.


I have no idea why LoyceV chimed in here but look here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5176404.0

Newbie question, about $1 million USD of BTC from 2014 worth 30x that today, just does not scan as a "legit" post in my opinion but it has a lot of responses.

Take a look at what I replied to earlier today:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5176435.msg52189597#msg52189597

I really had to think before replying to it. Is this legit, is it not?
In the end I replied because it is asked a lot in the HW sections so I gave them the benefit of the doubt.
Probably a waste of my time, but I can at least defend it to a certain extent.

Take a look at 1st post here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5170721

Hmmmm, newer account asking about setting up an exchange. Seen that a lot, no big deal. Everyone want to get rich doing something like that.

Now, look at his post history.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2532622;sa=showPosts

Yeah.....

Thus ends my Saturday night incoherent ramblings.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

-Dave

[actmyname]

The following list will be updated as the unhandled reports continue to trickle through the report queue. There are roughly 1600 left, though this may overlap with some "no-action" results.

List of users sorted by no. good reports filed against their posts, from approximately June 2020 onwards:

Code:

522| onrise
302| fortunecrypto
169| ethereumhunter
140| gweedo
120| quality.crypto
117| TheICE007
116| michellee
113| zaim7413
103| FloridaKid
99 | n0ne
98 | litepool.ru
97 | kramat
95 | luckyflop
94 | gantez
91 | OrangeII
86 | Subbir
81 | krayzie32
78 | sangjoewara
78 | DonFacundo
76 | calandra78
71 | Falconer
69 | miningguru
69 | cunguks
68 | awakpane
64 | pilosopotasyo
62 | udidrone
62 | Oceat
61 | ansarose1
60 | meldrio1
60 | leatutz
59 | FlamingFingers
58 | TheClownSong
53 | Negotiation
51 | Krislaw
47 | kang_kung
46 | bitpotter
45 | Denies Distro
44 | hinorizk
43 | JeffBrad12
38 | dimastegar
38 | Burogh
37 | rendravolt
35 | Paycoinzzz
33 | shinratensei_
33 | NewRanger
30 | bxipp
28 | GDragon
28 | beveryu778
26 | Nellayar
22 | terrific
20 | Taskford
20 | magnum cyber
20 | eidoscore
19 | lunnatic
17 | Justin999
17 | DeadCoin
17 | Asuspawer09
16 | bitcoinst
15 | jajorforce
13 | PancongStreet
12 | TitanGEL
12 | FIFA worldcup
12 | drlukacs
10 | pawanjain

Total reports: 4508
Total users: 87
Average reports/user: 51.81
Worst offender: onrise