I created the Global Blacklist API early on when I joined Steem and have run it since with very little downtime.
I have decided to sunset the API for various reasons. You will no longer see blacklist markers on accounts when viewing profiles. This will also affect accounts on the irredeemables list.
The blacklist has always been a source of frustration for many users and myself. I have put a lot of time into maintaining it and 47,397 accounts manually researched and added by me.
Users will soon have the ability to create their own decentralized lists and decide what they want to mute and what they want to blacklist. My original plan was to move the Global Blacklist API to the decentralized lists and maintain multiple mute lists for the community. But I have decided to leave abuse-fighting to others and move on to other things. I'm sure there are plenty of people that would love to step up and do this instead.
At this time, the following blacklists will no longer be available until they come up with their own solution or move to decentralized lists:
- Spaminator
- Hive Watchers
- BuildAWhale
- Irredeemables
- Actifit
- Plenty Of Phish
- Redeemables
- Tribe Mutes
Effective immediately, the Global Blacklist API has been taken down, the BuildAWhale blacklist is no more, and irredeemables have been taken down as well.
And onto better things.
I think it was a good project as it was useful to see if an account was a known troublemaker, even if it was not always obvious what they did. We will need ways to deal with abusers in future, so I hope to see alternatives soon. Abuse has generally not been as bad on Hive as 'the other place', but it is bound to happen.
Thanks for all you have done to make this a better place.
See you in VR.
C'mon man!
You were certainly worth what you were asking.
I bet that becomes more obvious before long.
I was a user of the blacklist and thank you for having it up.
well done
I suspect I speak for a few expressing my gratitude for what you have done over the years to make this a happier space.
Enjoy your well-deserved break and the new (hopefully more enjoyable) things you have planned.
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Very good move here. This has been a sore spot for many and folks should do their own lists not rely on someone else. I’m sure you’re relieved to not do this any longer.
You've been around here a while.
This blockchain is a nice place.
I think we should stay.
Hehe. Not sure how to respond.
Too bad we don't have any !popcorn to celebrate the retirement.
Word is you can't get it up no more Marky..
Wow. You need a holiday from that anyway, cheers for your diligence over the years.
thanks for the work!
Looking at the proposals, your blacklist proposal still has 54 days of funding left. Why did you choose to end it now and not in 54 days when the proposal renews?
The proposal isn't funded, it is 4M out of like 23M for approval. I don't see it being approved and is clear it isn't something people want. It's been a constant headache so I am happy to not deal with it.
Ohhhh, I see this very thin, 5 pixel wide warning now that proposals below this thin green line aren't being funded. That UI is not apparent to people who just glance at that section once every few months. The funded proposals shouldn't have the same purple "Active" badge as non-funded proposals. They should have a green "funded" badge.
Screw the headaches. AltSpace has made it apparent your true calling is the digital standup comedian! 😄
The proposal system is pretty confusing, but yeah anything below the line is unfunded. Except for the "Upcoming" section, that's proposals that are not active yet and may already pass the funding line but it doesn't disclose that until it becomes active.
Not sure I can do that all that much, I know a lot of jokes but not that many.
Thank you for everything you have done.
Sorry to hear more were not willing to support Hive Vector Defense. With a name like that, I had hoped over the years it would evolve into providing services for dapps such as pen testing, code review, and issuing security alerts among providing blacklists.
고마해~! 이 샹노무 셰키야~! 캭~ 디져~!
Did a mouse just squeek?