Finding bidbot blacklisted users by searching memos

Repository

https://github.com/mathowl/steemabuse/blob/master/memo_blacklist.py

Abuse category

Bid-bot abuse: Compared to similar posts in the same category, the bought votes increase the rewards of the post above 50% of similar content. Blatantly overvalued bad post. (SFR definition)

Overview

It is not always clear if a steemian has been blacklisted by a bidbot. This is especially true if smaller bidbots are concerned. When a user has been blacklisted by a bidbot the bids get refunded and the memo usually indicate that the user has been blacklisted. I wrote a simple python script which uses the beem modules to see if the memos contain information on if a user has been blacklisted. I will explain how you can run the script on one of my bots.

Calling the bot

Post the following text in any comment: !onblacklist [user] (user without @ and no square brackets). A bot will reply to this comment in about a minute. It will check the memos of the last 20 days and print instances of memos containing the word blacklist from unique senders. Example:

The date|sender|memo are printed. Since it is not a given if a memo contains the word blacklist that then the user has been blacklisted all the information of the transaction is printed.

Note: Currently I don't have dedicated hardware to run this bot. So the bot is online when it is online. After the weekend it will hopefully run on something more permanent

Python versus bot script

You can enter the number of days for which you would like to search in the Python script. The bot search been fixed to 20 days.

Python list output

Example what the list elements look like:

Resources

SFR definitions-of-abuse
Top figure made using inkscape