Kind of yes, it is an API that takes 10 different blacklists throughout the community and provides a standardized interface for projects and dapps to query if a user is on any of the blacklists.
I provide one of the largest and most active blacklist and supply access to 9 others as well as all the tribes.
For your blacklist, being the most active one, do you have documentation on my questions above?
My blacklist is solely managed by me, it is public but no one else contributes. There is an appeals channel on my Discord.
Not trying to attack you, but don't you see this as a type of dictatorship? You're literally a centralized source of authority. And I know that others can do the same thing, but do they really have the same power and clout as you?
If it was centralized, there would be only one blacklist.
A blacklist doesn't prevent someone from posting and earning. It is a warning sign that someone is a bad actor.
There is no police or law on Steem, so it is up to the community to police itself. Most people are unable to and don't want to put the effort in to prevent spam, abuse, harassment, plagiarism, and scams.
Some of us go out of our way and put a lot of time trying to keep the community clean and safe.
Yeah, (sighs) I understand your motivation. I think you're, most likely, a good person with good intentions. I just wish there was another way...but...as you said, there is no police or law in steem.
This is as good as it gets for now. And I pray you be a good and wise king, lol :-)
If you're listed on more than one blacklist, all your posts and comments are hidden by default.
The blacklist doesn't change or enforce anything. It is a warning system. The reason I built the API to support multiple blacklists is to give choice and more decentralization to support multiple opinions.
There is a ridiculous amount of work that goes into this behind the scenes to research and identify abuse.
Don’t believe a word he says. They blocked me from steemit frontend and nodes and also from some communities so i specifically cannot earn!