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RE: Daily Steem Stats Report - Friday, May 4, 2018

in #steemit7 years ago

Useful information and I've got a question:

Why are there spikes in the number of accounts created roughly every 10 days?

Is it something to do with the approval process (i.e. there are Steemit moderators at work during these days) or it's a natural pattern?

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They really need to get rid of that manual approval process for new accounts. The spammers are still getting through while legit users are forced to wait days and weeks for the accounts, and it's screwing up even the stats.

Problem is how to identify spammers from 'normal' users?

I think it's the first one, to be honest. It's also interesting to note that we're several days overdue.
I'm wondering if this means velocity is imminent.

Velocity as in?

Faster onboarding, possibly as part of hardfork20. They've been quiet on the detail, but manually checking each application doesn't scale well; so a current priority is speeding that right up.

Seriously, I don't understand what's there to check and what information can the moderators find out from mere phone numbers and emails provided by the applicants.

I guess they just check them against the database of existing numbers and addresses to make sure they're not duplicates?

I thought finding duplicates can be done within seconds by computers......

As in enticing more people into the verification process?