Thanks Julerz! I think this is a good idea to have my own blacklist too and use other manager's blacklist (like yours) as a reference too to avoid which users we should allowed on our own projects.
Yes. My Blacklist can also be copied and downloaded just in case other bounty managers would want to use that as a reference to their own Blacklist.
I was even willing to give full access to any bounty manager who would want to contribute to that list so we would have a unified list and it would be much easier for us to find these cheaters.
BTW, I keep seeing this in the first page as the common problem:
Using previous report as new report
Plagiarism - Copying other users postsThe problem with having the campaign participants to post their reports on the bounty thread is that
1. It will be publicly available to anybody including those cheaters to copy and paste as their own reports in the next couple of pages.
2. It's a tedious task to go through all those reports page by page and not miss any cheater, all while trying to cross-reference them with other users' reports.
The simplest way I found to avoid those is to just use an external form (like google form) for the campaign participants to submit their weekly reports.
In the form itself, you can add simple regex response validations to ensure the campaign participants submit valid and working report links.
Then, on the spreadsheet (where the reports are listed), you can apply a custom formula for the duplicates to be easily identified and marked within the spreadsheet. You can also simply sort the responses by their usernames, social media accounts, etc.
Best of all, you can hide those reports so no campaign participant would be able to copy and plagiarise them; although this does raise some questions about transparency, if that's their concern, you can just simply give them access to view the spreadsheet.
