What the heck should I call my semi-daily posts? I need a catchy name that I can turn into a series such as Vol. I or add the date to. I spend way too much time trying to think up post titles when I could spend that time more efficiently somewhere else.
Big thanks to @stellabelle for helping out @raphi00. While she doesn't agree with me I will sometimes make a quick post here without payout to help another Steemian that I feel needs it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ It makes me feel good.
Threat Level - Red
If you missed it in my previous post, the phishing attack is still going. There are now 3 new accounts on my list in the last 24 hours with one recovery.
dMania
If you haven't seen it you can find the introduction here: Introducing dMania: 9GAG on Steem - Make money with memes
Like dTube I like the idea of it in theory but unlike @dTbue @zombee has changed the downvote function on the site.
I changed the behaviour of flagging or downvoting from Steemit.
Flagging on dMania should only be used to mark inappropriate content that should be removed.
He doesn't state what they consider inappropriate content and encourages the stealing of content by changing the mechanism on dMania.lol that we use on steemit.com to remove payouts on plagiarized content.
A flag on dMania is a downvote with minimal voting power.
Luckily at this moment the posts are on steemit.com as well.
I'm a Bot!
I did get a good laugh out of skimming the comments. It seems there is still the misconception out there that we are nothing but bots.
steemcleaners is NOT a part of steemit inc and it is just a random guy who decided to make a bot and if his bot cant keep up with the steem blockchgain thats his prioblem
After reading the rest of the comment it seems that @ackza may not understand the ramifications of allowing spam & scam to run rampant here. Especially identity theft.
Lame Post
I actually had a topic in mind for todays post but with dMania and the influx of abuse reports I have too much work to do and keep up so this has turned into a bit of a lame post since I need to get back to it. I've already spent a few hours researching a single account before flagging it to oblivion. Maybe I'll have time to post about it tomorrow and how intent is a large part of what I look for when fighting abuse.
Image by @atopy
Current Projects: @steemcleaners 🙣 @spaminator
Projects I support: @minnowsupport
"Operation Cleansweep"
meep
beeep beep !
meep
meep
meep
meep
hello :)
meep
meep
meep
Any of these take your fancy?
Thanks for your enduring efforts & commitment to the quality and safety of user experience on steemit.
EDIT: I've got one more for you:
The Dredge Report dd/mm/yyy
Yes! While I loved the ones that @fitzgibbon & @theflu provided - they had me laughing I think yours are more practical.
The Steemit Dredge Report!
Keep-up the Good Work @patrice :)
Hello, @patrice! How about Steem Clean Dream Team Scoop?
Or if that's too long: Steem ZeroAbuse Supreme
Possible reusable post titles:
Anything you like here?
Number 3 had me rolling!
I didn't know that part.
They can hardly not appear on Steemit.com.
If it is used as intended, sharing memes someone has created, it won't be a problem. I was telling someone earlier I actually like the concept for photography if someone programmed a built in reporting feature for Photo Plagiarism.
The problem is the spam potential when it comes to posting everyone else's work.
I think this is only a temporary problem. In my humble opinion, an upvote sometimes sends a clearer message than a downvote.
The day SMT's are implemented to niche domains, it's the domain creators, the stakeholders that will be whales in their domain. Their upvotes will probably dominate the rewards pool, and their curation will decide whether plagiarism or original content will thrive.
I think copyrights are a bad thing. That being said I think most thing that are posted without mention of the author or even those who mention the authors but are just pure and simple copy paste, I think it's a good thing we down vote them. I would even love to see even better mechanism to counter those kind of post but this isn't because I "believe" in copyrights. I don't think copyrights are useful for humanity. I'm not the only one making this case. Dan posted on the subject already. He posted the first chapter of a whole book on the subject making the case that copyrights are not serving us.
As for looking for post with copyrighted image, I think if it's a post only of those type of images with text then they should be downvoted but otherwise, if there's original text then I don't think they should be downvoted whether or not a link to the original author is provided.
How about lik
Caught up 1710xx
I love these daily updates! I also like seeing the color indicated threat level, so that gives people an idea of what's going on currently. It's so hard to keep up. I didn't know about the changing of the flag function on Dmania. That seems crazy! I also don't like people who just rip stuff off the internet, and then post it in like 2 seconds.....what does everyone else think?
I have mixed feelings. There are things that are meant to be shared like YouTube & meme's. What it boils down to is responsible posting & upvoting.
Part of the problem is that some users with high SP will reward theses posts with $20 -$100 each. Someone sees that and starts spamming hoping to get lucky. If they were voting these posts $0.50 - $1.00 I don't think it would encourage spam and users could still share what they find funny.
After a lot of consideration and talking with several community members I think I could support dMania even with the change in downvoting weight if they were to add a function to report spam, stolen images, and other abuse for review.
I think it would be a great idea of someone who is passionate about photography & graphics to do something similar with a way of reporting images that do not belong to the poster built in. It would be a way of showcasing talent here on steemit with a reporting function for abuse.
The abuse reporting function could be tied to a bot that would reverse image search and comment if the image was found. If the bot didn't find the image it could forward the post to a group like steemcleaners for manual review.
Just some ideas that I have had after seeing the dMania site. I still think dMania will be a headache if those posting images are heavily rewarded. We'll see an increase in spam posters and with it spam comments.
Let's hope the novelty wears off both contributors and curators will use the site responsibly. If not I'm working on a scope for abuse for those who use it to sharing other Steemains meme's without permission and plagiarized images that are not memes.
You already have what I think is a fantastic title. "State of Abuse" just add a date after it. It is what your daily post is about after all, and I find it to be a good title.
On the other thing I have no clue what dMania is, and it does not sound like something or place I'd be interested in, so no I have no comment or opinion on it.
Thanks for all the work you do, trying to provide a safe, nice, enjoyable place for us on steemit.