I Got a Message From Carl
He was upset that he got Flagged
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It seems that a bot by the name of THE BLACK LIST (25) flagged him.
(notice that rep...wow...a whole 25...notice the SP? Zero.
Carl was upset.
Poor carl.
I noticed that on The BlackList had a webpage listed on it's profile...
PastBin? what the hell is that?
A pastebin or text storage site is a type of online content hosting service where users can store plain text
Users are often warned to instead use pastebins, or *risk being banned from the service
Oh really? Curious and Curiouser
- Unforeseen uses arose for pastebins.
Oh really? Out of curiosity I went there and gave it a look. What can text do? A virus can't hide in text (cannit?)
Oh My.
- The Steemit @Blacklist uses a range of metrics to determine who's a repeat offender of plagiarism, hate speech, bullying, ongoing power-abuse and so on. The Blacklist is computer-generated and is updated irregularly to make sure bad behaving accounts get a quick flag so that other upvote-bots can avoid upvoting the blacklisted accounts and simply skip to the next post
Riiiight. The way I understand it Upvote bot's generate revenue for their users by voting on posts. A 'bot user is going to give up revenue because another bot flagged a post? Oh really?
- The @blacklist-project is a much wider and further stretching authority than any of the singular up or downvoting guilds currently running on steemit, it is also complimentary to current projects in the same genre which are to keep the steem-blockchain unattractive for scammers, spammers and miserable trolls who are caught bullying or go after steemians in a power-abusive behaviour and so forth and so on.
Baffle-Gab...and so forth and so on.
- The @blacklist account is a very serious project
R.U. Sirius?
- black flag is computer-generated
You said that because an authority thinks something, it must therefore be true.
But WAIT
- There are one way to get off the blacklist once you are on it, and that is to change your behavior from evil to good over your next 40 posts. Once you have reached that number you must send 40 STEEM to the @blacklist account with "REVIEW" in the memo. Someone from our staff will then manually look at your blog within the next 24-48 hours and remove you from the list if your account now qualifies for it.
Staff? Imagine that...Blacklist joined Steem this month. 'They' work pretty fast don't they
Who's on the list?
Yup...this is rilly rilly Sirius.
Dan and Ned are on the list.
Ned is one of the founders and is the CEO of Steemit
Notice that he's only made 712 posts (and comments) since the beginning of Steem? (june of 2016) Two years? My they must have been BAD posts.
Dan wrote the Steem code. He was also one of the founders...he's since moved on to other things.
EOS comes to mind
worth $6.314 BILLION !
I image he's quaking in his boots to be on that list.
Say goodnight Karl
This is hilarious, agreed. It's absurd, when you read the list. Almost . . . like something from youtube or facebook. It's clearly a scam, like you've said elsewhere. Some obvious spammers are on that list, I think, solely to make it look "legitimate", done before. (If it's really, even partially, AI data, this is the future of AI. Deep learning. Deep potato.)
I know Steemit, Inc., flagged that account. I expect them to flag who ever is running it. They should.
Steemit Inc has literally MILLIONS of SP...when they flag someone at 100% they squash em like a bug. Total obliteration. He'll be 'greyed out' for the rest of this decade.
You know there are bots on Steemit, and also that @ned and @dan aren't seeking to mine rewards. Given that flags from @blacklist-a have been being flown at least as long as I've been on Steemit, the new account you point out must but be a new iteration of the mechanism that directs some of those bots away from posts.
Being flagged by @blacklist-a would be a very simple way to keep your posts from sucking rewards out of the pool, and it makes sense that @ned would want that flag, because that enables those bots to instead promote other accounts, particularly those with higher rep, which motivates them to continue to create value on Steemit.
That seems the most reasonable reason for @ned, @dan, and @steemcleaners to be on the blacklist. Maybe @berniesanders also, since he's on there too. He has his own bots, and spends plenty of SP flagging already, so he apparently has little need of votes from bots intended to encourage high rep accounts to continue to contribute.
Steemit has a YOY churn of almost 90%, and retaining high rep accounts has to be a priority for founding whales. Not all high rep accounts, however, are conducive to the sociopolitical/economic ends of the founders, and blacklisting them also makes sense.
For wee minnows, like myself, this is all pretty theoretical. I bet you, however, are benefiting from votes intended to encourage high rep users, as you are a shining example of the 10% that have managed to keep producing value on the platform.
And, for that, I thank you.
Is this guys serious? My stomach is cramping from laughing to much. I wonder who's behind this idiot? Oh noes! I called @blacklist an idiot. I think I'm gonna get flagged. Poor me. On the serious note, thanks for telling us about this scammer @everittdmickey
thank you.
my work here is done.
When ever I see the term "authority" it makes me think of this quote:
yup...eggzakerly.
Good job well done
I like your post.. have upvoted by @suhendi
Nice post sir. Enjoyed the meme thank you. Cheers