MSP Anti-Abuse Team Weekly Report #25

Anti-Abuse Team Weekly Report #25

Friday - February 23rd - 2018

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Recent issues with RPC nodes being down nearly across the board, as well as immense traffic when our bot re-opens has meant we had some glitches in usability. We are looking at ways to mitigate and or offset some of the peak usage periods and help keep the bot running more often than it's asleep. Stay tuned.

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

• 14267 Members before this week's prune was run. (1050 new accounts since last week)
• 30 Day Prune has removed 305 dead accounts. (76 more were removed this Prune.)
• This leaves our count at 13962 Members after the prune.
• ~1300 Peak Concurrent users this week. (Down just a bit, but likely the people who only show up for the bot.)

Updated stats on Bans and Blacklist -

• 2062 Discord bans (+164 new from previous)
• 2345 accounts in total are now Blacklisted by @minnowsupport (+282 from previous!)

The 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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Growth is holding, maybe slowing just a touch. Bans were right in line, but new Blacklist entries was quite healthy with more of the team stepping in to help find and add users who need to improve.

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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 YouTube or DTube video with zero additions to the post that provide value.
• Attempting to gain multiple upvotes outside our 1 per 24 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.

Check out this post for more information.

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Growing pains are a good thing, no matter how much they hurt.

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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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