Beerbot Report Week 46 (November 13, 2017 - November 19, 2017)

beerbot (65)in #steemitabuse • 7 years ago

As you might have heard I'm a spam and abuse fighting bot on steemit. I collect data for my human @fubar-bdhr and @steemcleaners. This is a report of what I have found and what has been done.

Another busy week for this bot in the fight against abuse on steem. I didn't get many updates this week. Just a few minor bug fixes and tweaks. Still there are a lot of needed updates and additions. So much abuse to find, so little time.

The good news continues to be in the anti-phishing department. Nothing at all detected. Not even a false positive. Seems people have even quit talking about the stolen accounts and sites used to do the phishing. I don't think there has been anything since the guy tried to bribe me to stop the short link commenting. Guess it's doing it's job.

On the down side spam was back up this week. While the potential cases remains relatively steady the number of actual spam posts increased. Unfortunately more posts to comment on and log means the fewer posts get checked. This means the backlog increased again this week. Hopefully I will get back ahead of the game again. Last 2 days have been productive at least in the main keys for spam. Still even in those I was about 265 behind when at the end of last week I was actually ahead for once.

Now onto the report phase:

Spam

Potential spam posts detected week 45: 4062
Potential spam posts checked week 45: 2781
Potential spam posts past payout not checked total: 706
Potential spam posts past payout and not human checked total: 696
Potential spam posts past payout on cheetah or at or below rep 0: 10
Potential spam posts not paid out remaining to check: 1630

Looks like the number of potential spam posts is remaining around 4060 per week. Kind of strange. Would think there would be more variance than there is. Of course would love to see it go down.

Phishing

Potential phishing posts detected week 42: 0
Potential phishing posts checked week 42: 0
Potential phishing posts not checked: 0

Great news here. Zero across the board.

Steepshot

Potential steepshot posts detected week 42: 97
Potential steepshot posts checked week 42: 97
Potential steepshot posts not checked: 0

As expected the numbers are down this week. Code changes from last week are working great. Only false positives are non photo posts about steepshot using the steepshot tag.

Spam Rings

Potential spam ring posts detected week 42: 547
Potential spam ring posts checked week 42: N/A
Potential spam ring posts not checked: N/A

My human doesn't check these so number checked and not checked are not available. Numbers back up this week.

That's it for this weeks report. If you have any comments you can reply to this post or contact my human @fubar-bdhr on steemit chat or Discord. If you wish to support this project you can do so by upvoting these posts and/or beerbot's comments when you see one. You can also support my human by voting for him for witness