Witness "pjau" Update Week 2
Hello everyone!
So my second week as a witness is over, I have moved up the ranks a bit more this week which is great! At the time of writing my full rank is #173 and my active rank is #128.
I have had no issues with the server, everything is running smoothly still. And I have some exciting news!!! I produced my first block at the start of the week, in fact I should be getting another one soon. Pretty exciting, for me at least. haha. But at least I know everything is working fine, I would have been so sad if I had missed it. I have not made any changes to the witness settings.
Outside of being a witness, I have put in 35 hours with @steemcleaners this week, processed over 1,000 user reports and done a lot of Discord chat support. Stopped some phishing spammers, albeit it still seems fairly quiet. Which I suppose is a good thing.
Anyway I think that is all for this weeks update! :)
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Congratulations on witnessing your first block! Woohoo! Now the real work begins! Okay, maybe the same work, just more of it, hopefully.
And good job keeping those phishing spammers quiet. I'm pretty sure it's because of your report processing that they're lying low. I haven't seen any for a while, either, although I understand there is one around. I've seen three posts about it now. Sami100 I think it is. I'm sure you already know. :)
Thanks mate, and thanks for the vote too :)
It wasn't long after I posted that I got my second. Should get about 8 a month at my current position. Need 40 to pay for server. Haha but not fussed about that. :)
Stopped 4 accounts spammimg earlier, they keep coming but not as often. At it's worst I was stopping up to 20 a day. But its not even daily anymore.
hey, I figured since you didn't miss the block that I should go ahead and vote for you. Now you say you've already had two, so even better. :)
Well, that's good news about the spammers. I wonder if that's trickling out to the Steemit public at large. I hope it is. I know I haven't noticed so many around. And the ones that are often under 25 rating if not already in the negative numbers.
One though did answer someone who downvoted him and said he was just an honest guy trying to learn and make his way on Steemit. He asked for the flag to be removed, but as far as I know, it's still on the original comment.
Well we have a list of nearly 700 accounts phished now. So a bit under 0.1% of total steem accounts. Some have restored back to normal. A lot have not. But there's a good side to it that comes from it. Education and awareness. But as steem grows there will be a new wave of it. Probably months a way I'm guessing. But all those new people will need to learn too. So it might slow for now but it won't stop entirely.
Man, you had me thinking happy thoughts and then you hit me with this. Sigh. A new wave of users, a new wave of opportunists feeding on the uninformed. Except they get craftier and they take some of the well-informed out, too.
I've had a discussion about this before with a couple of others and it doesn't sound like there's much taste for going after these people legally, even the phishing folks who I find to be criminals. The spammers are trying to make a quick $0.03. The phishers want it all.
Not sure if there is much that can be done on the legal side. The crypto exchanges need to get involved really but they don't seem to care.
Why would the crypto exchanges need to be involved to initiate action against someone here? To try and get the crypto back? I would think if the exchanges had a reason to do it, they'd be more willing, which means there needs to be an accusation, and investigation, a trial and a conviction first, right? I mean, I know there's a lot of convoluted things to get through, the identity of the original account holder being potentially one of them, but still, if the only recourse for users here is to be vigilant and alert 100% of the time, I'm not sure if that's going to cut it security wise when the masses arrive.
Wish you a great week ahead mate