I really appreciate that you explain more about your work with this post/proposal. I think a team like Hivewatchers unfortunately is needed on Hive as spam/plagiarism etc. is definitely an issue. The only main favor I have is that you keep your work open and transparent; you guys do hold a lot of power when you can put people on blacklists and downvote them. As long as you keep this process transparent, I am all for it. So never lose touch with the community and keep us updated.
Hi, thanks for feedback. I am not sure what you mean by transparent. We leave comments on abusive posts and give a reason why someone is blacklisted in blacklist comment. Anyone can just read these comments to see evidence. Our transaction and rewards are also all visible for everyone.
About other accounts that we blacklist, we cannot provide all data because it would helps scammers to dodge being caught and make their abuse easier. Anyone can come to Discord and ask why they are blacklisted. Currently there are almost 75k accounts being blacklisted just by spaminator alone. It shows the amount of abuse.
The screenshot from our spaminator API shows the number of activeley blacklisted accounts.
"Groups" mean that there is more than one account belonging to the same scammer/scammers.
The largest scam group ("dart/constructor") had over 25k accounts (stopped by us a while ago) and then was scamming Steemit's rewards pool worth of thousands of US dollars each week.
👍 your post is what I meant by transparency ;)