@brandonfrye Upvote Bot Blacklist
We're No Longer Promoting Spam, Scams or Crap Posts!
I have decided to join the likes of @themarkymark and begin monitoring posts and comments being upvoted by my upvote bot. If you want to use the @brandonfrye upvote service, then please be sure you're only using it for posts that could be seen as valuable by the community. And certainly don't take full advantage of upvote bots like @denk-mit, who devised a multi-layered scam on the Steem blockchain utilizing upvote bots.
You Will Be Blacklisted And Lose Your Upvote if:
- No effort was put into creating your post (i.e. two sentences long, a single image, etc.)
- You take advantage of our service with multiple upvotes on the same post using threaded comments
- You plagiarize content (including images, audio, video and text)
- You send spam via wallets, comments, posts, etc.
- You are caught scamming or committing fraud
- You create (or upvote) posts that are complaining about upvote bots
- You promote a similar upvote bot/service
If you're caught doing any of these things, you will lose your upvote and NOT be refunded!
We also DO NOT allow the following tags:
- NSFW
- steepshot
- dmania
Due to the lack of effort involved, low quality, and high amount of plagiarism with these posts, we cannot promote them. But you will receive a refund if you place a bid on a post that includes any of these tags.
Please note that I'm not perfect and am capable of making a mistake. If there was a mistake on my part and your account was blacklisted, I will personally refund your account and make things right. Just reach out to me via https://steem.chat/ and we'll work it out there.
Please reach out to me and report abuse if you see it!
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Hi @brandonfrye, your posts are very helpful. I recommend people to follow you as a mentor in my introducing @hashclub post. Thank you
You're today's comment winner!! 😎🥂
Each day I pick a random comment on my post to upvote and today was your lucky day 🙌🏻
Thank you and wish you Good Luck.
That was a LOT of bot usage! lol Wow!
It was insane! Two posts just like that with multiple levels of comments. I went through and had to manually unvote each one too.
I'm truly glad to see it!
You were one of my early heroes here on Steemit, and remain so. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks @bigtom13, really appreciate it! :)
Great work man and I applaud all the bot owners taking action like this. It's kinda put you guys in a tough place but I applaud the proactive stance on the abuse and 'gaming' of the system.
But hey, promote me all you want bro LOL I'm not going to stop ya' lol
Appreciate the work you are doing man. Keep crushing it!
Gonna take a little more time out of the day to scan through these posts but at the end of the day it'll make Steemit a better place for all. I just wish that all bot owners would take notice of this garbage and stop it.
I just ran into another post from @themarkymark also talking about the amount of spam accounts being created on the platform. It is crazy that Steemit is allow that as it lead to more spam and trash on the blockchain. Bandwidth is great right now but as the ecosystem grows it could lead to problems if they do not control this. I saw he was a witness as well and gave him my vote. Have you thought of being a witness?
I'll have to check out that post. But I know it's hard to prevent people from creating an account for spamming as there is no way to vet them... similar to FB and Twitter really. And maybe even more so here because all you need is a little Litecoin or Steem to create an account - no phone number, email, etc. Welcome to decentralization! ;)
And no, I personally don't have much interest in becoming a witness. It's a little late in the game unless you have a huge following that would vote for you.
EDIT: I just read his post and that's insane. Had no idea that so many spammers are creating accounts so easily. Surely this is something that Steemit Inc. can put a stop to. Thanks for pointing that out!
Here you go: https://steemit.com/steemit/@themarkymark/steemit-creates-accounts-for-scammers-and-nobody-else#@newageinv/re-themarkymark-steemit-creates-accounts-for-scammers-and-nobody-else-20180408t200218085z
Little steps at a time but you should ultimately consider Witness from what I see... They will need more as the platform grows!
Read that today too. Absolute madness. It took me only a day to get my account but the people I recommended to try out Steemit gave up because it was weeks and no account was given to them.
Good hardworking people that would have brought a ton to the platform. Yet these scam accounts get in? Man oh man...I love this place but wow.
You can buy an account, which is what I imagine somebody looking to make a ton of money would do.
Cg
Heya! Nice to see the filtering efforts for anti-spam. That makes us kinda excited to use this bot in the future, once we can afford it. (both for votes and delegations) Could you check to see that we are not flagged by the filters? We encountered a rash of evilness from a "cleaner" bot that thought we were spam earlier this week. (we are not! )
I'm unable to check the blacklist of other accounts directly such as Cheetah, Spaminator, etc. But if you place a bid on my bot and get a confirmation that your bid was accepted, then you'll know you're good to go. 👍
woohoo! looks like we are in the clear
Ity sucks man i got scammed couple of times by some upvote bot it turned me off alot but now i only use booster, your bot service and jerrys bot also sneaky ninja also minnow bost .
Thank you for making steemit and bots legit for us.
I'm sorry to hear your experience with other bots. But I'm the same way though; I stick to the ones I know are legit and hold up their end of the bargain.
And as far as handling spam, I really feel obligated to do what I can to prevent my upvote service from promoting garbage. Especially considering that my bot funds @minnowfund which helps minnows get a start here. We have to set an example somewhere.
As always, thanks for your feedback and support. Let's continue making Steemit the best place to be!!
interesting to learn more about the nature of bots. But great to see responsibility being taken by bot owners , which should go towards protecting the fabric of Steemit.
thanks brandon!!!!!! the best bot available!!!!!!!! it just got that...much better!!!!
😁 Thanks @rawutah, just keeps getting better and better!!
Awesome work. Steemit needs more people like you @brandonfrye.
I think that if bots re managed corectly then they are fine. The trending page is broke because people can just buy huge upvites for any crap they come up with
Keep up the good work!!!
Thanks @conradt, I'll do everything I can on my end to put a stop to it. Unfortunately my bot is still pretty small so it would be nice if some of the bigger bots would do the same. I'm also reporting these accounts to @steemcleaners (in some instances) so that they end up on the communal blacklist for all bots.
Awesome! I guess if you do your best and set a good example and blog about how this will help Steem then others may notice and follow suit! Thats a good idea.. I havent used your bot as yet but the more I hear about it the more I think I should be!