Top reporters

[Mbitr]

Wow - never thought that I reported that much to be honest ! Proud to be on the list nevertheless.
Personally I just do 2-3 reports in the morning over a couple of cups of tea.  I’m not a prolific poster, more of a reader and generally ill find something to report as spam, advertising, duplicate posts or just general nonsense 
Congrats to everyone on the list and hopefully it may encourage a few more members to do some reporting.

Those top three reporters are something else though - that is IMPRESSIVE!!!

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Nice to some some individuals who are volunteering doing some selfless service to the forum getting recognized. Theymos, will this thread be updated yearly, I wish it'll so it can serve as a motivation for more users to engage in this act. We need more reporters, sadly previous years reports weren't counted, I'm sure we would had seen some popular names that haven't been that active for a while now in the reporting business.

Thank you to everyone reporting, that you weren't included doesn't mean you're not been appreciated, just keep reporting and you might just make it to the next list, don't make that a priorities though instead report because you want the keep the forum clean.

[RickDeckard]

Woah, wasn't expecting my name to be on the list! Thank you so much for the small mention @theymos! I've only started being more active this year, but I'm still glad I made it to the list. I'm also happy to know that we are not alone, great work!
But damn actmyname, Ravimov and eaLiTy you guys are on fire! Congrats! Do you use some tool to help you with reports? Recently I've been using this hack[1] from suchmoon (great work!) but I was wondering if you guys use others that are also helpful - besides being All Watchers within our community
[1]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5103488

[OgNasty]

I lost a little bit of gusto on my reports when it became clear most of them weren’t being handled and it appeared as though the promised reporter badge would never materialize. Would be cool to see some %’s next to those reports. On that note, any idea if those reporter badges fell into the same black hole as the 10-year anniversary coins?

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Sweet!
Surprised to see I made the list at #24  as I'm not exactly hunting down crap or wrongly located posts to report. Just diligent about reporting them when spotted...

[philipma1957]

Wow, really fresh statistics on reports. I've been waiting for her for a long time. Thanks, theymos. I wonder if someday there will be general statistics of reporters for the entire life of the forum? It would be interesting to look at this data.

The first place in this rating was not a surprise for me, since I was familiar with the statistics of this user earlier. It seems that he now has the largest number of sent reports, something about 68,000-70,000, an incredible result, there is something to strive for.

Congratulations to all the reporters on this list, all those who contribute to this forum. Maybe it's time for badges?  

This is from august 2012 to sept 2021 .  I did not do much first year or 2. Then  close to 100 a year from 2014 til now

"You have reported 732 posts with 99% accuracy (712 good, 12 bad, 8 unhandled). Do not worry about your accuracy too much; one accurate report is worth many inaccurate reports."

you could do a volunteer thread. it would get some people to answer maybe you could grab stats for a few hundred vs top 40

it would be lifetime as I think that is what is available to us as non staff.

[meser#]

Thank you for revealing our informers to us  Joking aside, we owe a big thank you to our friends who try so hard to keep the forum clean by this way. It's really unbelievable sending 30K reports omg  I think we have to cover their eye doctor bills 

[Sarah Azhari]

I didn't mean to offend, I wonder why is there the staff on the list? Isn't that their job?

[pooya87]

I didn't mean to offend, I wonder why is there the staff on the list? Isn't that their job?

Usually in forums different "staff" members have different levels of "power". For example the moderator of a certain board (like a local board) may not have any power in any other board (like the speculation board). So they have to report posts in other places just like anyone else.

[Upgrade00]

I wonder why is there the staff on the list? Isn't that their job?

Their job is to act on reports in the boards they are designated to, not to report in other boards.
For context, patrollers, can act on newbie accounts,
• Staffs, are limited to a specific board and only have moderator status in that board,
• Global mods can act anywhere on the forum, same with admins (although, all the ranks have different specifications of action).

Now if I'm a staff member, designated to the Bitcoin discussion board, I am not obligated to report posts outside my board, and those that do should be recognized, as it's an unpaid contribution.

[YOSHIE]

I didn't mean to offend, I wonder why is there the staff on the list? Isn't that their job?

The police can only act and arrest, punish and imprison, that's the main point.

Based on intelligence reports and the public, law enforcement can act, make decisions and punish those who do wrong, based on the level of their respective mistakes, you should know about that.

Staff, mods, admins, have other tasks to work on based on reports, they don't have time to check every post/topic and every board.


For that you have to thank those on the list of the best reports of the year, they always keep the Bitcointalk Forum clean of spam, scams etc, without having to pay a penny in return.

[Daniel91]

I really want to thank all these people who, through their own unpaid work and in their free time, try to clean this forum from spam.
I would also like to thank theymos for deciding to share this information publicly so that the most deserving members can receive the well-deserved recognition of the whole community.
For over 20 years I have been registered on a lot of different internet forums and on each one the main problems were spam and trolling.
Whenever forum administrators lost the battle with spam, the forum would die and members would leave it.
So really a big thank you to all the members but also to the administrators and moderators of the forum who have been fighting spam for more than 10 years and who keep this forum as clean as possible.

[actmyname]

I can say for myself that I do not use any automated tools. Only handmade. Over the past year, I have developed a clear algorithm for my actions and I have already mentioned this in my topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5346736.0.

Something similar here. Priority numbers from [P1] (highest) to [P4] (lowest), ranging from malware to consecutive bumps apropos to matter of intensity, with fixed comments from a set.

Fully-automated reporting seldom works except in the case of malware/spam/advert links, though I have found success with modifying the script with a few loops and additions. Staff will know that I commonly submit pages at a time: it's just far more efficient this way, though if the throttle limit were shorter than 4 seconds, that would make things far easier.

I could have handled a couple thousand hand-reports for the Altcoin sections, but before long I would need an assisting tool or I'd go insane from the absolute incoherence.

These two comments probably outline 98%+ of my reports:

• Generic, vague, repetitive, padded, and/or irrelevant post. Brings no new information. Zero value. User does not contribute: check post history.
• Useless one/two-liners. User does not contribute: check post history.

[PrimeNumber7]

Fully-automated reporting seldom works except in the case of malware/spam/advert links,

You should also be able to automate successive posts, excessive bumps, and bumping a thread without deleting the previous post.

I am currently considering how to best enforce the above rules, and if it is possible to enforce additional rules via automation.

[actmyname]

]You should also be able to automate successive posts, excessive bumps, and bumping a thread without deleting the previous post.

I am currently considering how to best enforce the above rules, and if it is possible to enforce additional rules via automation.

Some modern forums have an auto-merge feature, where your newer replies are merged into the prior if it is a consecutive post.

As for excessive bumps, that's more of a threshold issue: unless you have a rigorous idea of the borders, it would probably be better left to a case-by-case solution. I'm not certain about the volume of bot bumping activity, but since we haven't expanded the bump limit/feature to more boards, it seems like it's contained for now. Also consider the additional friction of updating your values/restrictions after the fact: one could imagine workarounds like alt accounts (to bypass account-based throttles), dynamic word length, and other 'borderline bumping' workarounds.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Are we getting prepared for the badges?? Sadly the last year wasn't so good for me and my presence in the forum was so little I didn't even end up on the bottom of the list. Hope this changes soon. 

[PrimeNumber7]

]You should also be able to automate successive posts, excessive bumps, and bumping a thread without deleting the previous post.

I am currently considering how to best enforce the above rules, and if it is possible to enforce additional rules via automation.

Some modern forums have an auto-merge feature, where your newer replies are merged into the prior if it is a consecutive post.

As for excessive bumps, that's more of a threshold issue: unless you have a rigorous idea of the borders, it would probably be better left to a case-by-case solution. I'm not certain about the volume of bot bumping activity, but since we haven't expanded the bump limit/feature to more boards, it seems like it's contained for now. Also consider the additional friction of updating your values/restrictions after the fact: one could imagine workarounds like alt accounts (to bypass account-based throttles), dynamic word length, and other 'borderline bumping' workarounds.

The bump issue is easy -- you simply monitor new posts, and if someone makes a new post at "x" time, subsequently makes an additional post a "y" time, if "y" time is <24 hours after "x" time AND there were no posts made by other users in the thread in question between the post in question, then an excessive bump was made.

The bumping threads without deleting old bumps is also easy -- you monitor threads, if a thread has their last two posts (or more) that was written by the OP of a thread, AND there is at least one post that needs to be removed due to duplicate bumps/consecutive posts made. This logic could even be extended to posts not made by the OP of a thread.

Using alt accounts to bump threads would bypass initial logic, but someone monitoring closely should be able to detect this, and report accordingly.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Staff, mods, admins, have other tasks to work on based on reports, they don't have time to check every post/topic and every board.

I don't know how many mods there are on the forum (I'm sure I could figure it out, but I'm too lazy for the purpose of this post), but given how many sections there are and how many posts get made in each of them every single day, there's no way in hell they'd be able to detect spam, zero-value, trolling, or off-topic posts; make judgements on those posts; and then take action if it weren't for members reporting posts like that. 

On other, smaller forums, things might work differently--but bitcointalk has many thousands of active accounts and well over a million registered ones, active or inactive.  Theymos would have to hire a small country of moderators if he expected them to sift through threads looking for rule violations, and he's not about to do that.

If I remember correctly theymos said a while back that coding badges in such a way so that people could have the option to display or not display the badge would be difficult.

I don't believe that for a minute--even though I'm not a coder.  If those gold coins can be put under every member's rank, I seriously doubt Theymos (who is very intelligent and has a lot of resources) wouldn't be able to give members some sort of badge.  Plus he did exactly that for the forum anniversary art contest winner if I'm not mistaken.

[Halab]

I don't believe that for a minute--even though I'm not a coder.  If those gold coins can be put under every member's rank, I seriously doubt Theymos (who is very intelligent and has a lot of resources) wouldn't be able to give members some sort of badge.  Plus he did exactly that for the forum anniversary art contest winner if I'm not mistaken.

If I'm not wrong, for the art contest badges, he put them on manually. He can do it occasionally for a particular event, but I can't see Theymos doing it on a regular basis (unless he appoints a "badge giver", like he did for the "whitelisters").
Gold coins under our pseudos is an easily configurable feature of SMF. I think I have read (maybe in the Staff section) that Theymos reworked the reports page, so that's probably why it's not as easy to put those reporters badges and may require a lot of coding effort.

[Lucius]

Gold coins under our pseudos is an easily configurable feature of SMF. I think I have read (maybe in the Staff section) that Theymos reworked the reports page, so that's probably why it's not as easy to put those reporters badges and may require a lot of coding effort.

It's not a bad idea if it doesn't require too much work and can be easily applied, but it might even be easier to add custom text to the profile "Top Reporter of 2020", as is the case with those who have a VIP, Donator or Copper Member title below the name. Perhaps this recognition could be transitional and awarded each year to those on the list of top reporters.