MSP Anti-Abuse Team Weekly Report #14

Anti-Abuse Team Weekly Report #14

Friday - December 8th - 2017

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Mostly a simple stats update this week as there isn't much new to add. Our fight against use of our bots on low-quality content continues and we have even seen some effort made to reform posting habits from several of the new additions to the Blacklist.

The details of this weeks prune of the member-list -

• 5308 Members before this week's prune was run. (199 new accounts since last week)
• 30 Day Prune has removed 85 dead accounts. (4 more were removed this Prune.)
• This leaves our count at 5233 Members after the prune.
• ~575 Peak Concurrent users this week. (Holidays always lower the activity online.)

Updated stats on Bans and Blacklist -

• 1189 Discord bans (+47 new from previous)
• 963 accounts in total are now Blacklisted by @minnowsupport (+138 from previous!)

The Charts

We continue to display our expanded budget (lol) with some more charts.

Member count data over time:

This shows the trend of members gained over time. I use the number of users counted after each purge each week.

Blacklist Counts by Type:

This gives a breakdown of the major categories we list an account under in our Blacklist.

In summary:

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Everything moves along as we grow and grow.

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A quick review of things that get you blacklisted:

• A single image or even multiple images, with very little text or only a basic bit of information with it.
• An embedded YoutTube or DTube video with zero additions to the post that provide value.
• Attempting to gain multiple upvotes outside our 1 per 12 hour cool-down by any means.
• Any major violation of our community guidelines and rules. (This usually has to do with treatment of other users on the platform.)

Not all of these result in a ban from Discord since we want you to learn and improve.

Our work to improve the fairness of our upvote bot continues, now with 100% more graph goodness!

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If you have any questions, please contact me on MSP or MSP-Probation

Thanks -

Discordiant

MSP Moderator, Sheriff and Anti-Abuse Team Leader

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