MSP Anti-Abuse Team Weekly Report #23

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Anti-Abuse Team Weekly Report #23

Saturday - February 10th - 2018

A day late as I was feeling under the weather yesterday. The numbers this week are slightly higher for having been a day late, but they are even higher than that could account for because of other factors. With the recent addition of a deputy to our lineup, and with the return of our tattle-bot informing us of any single account getting more than 1 $upvote command aimed at it inside a cool-down, we were able to catch many more people this week.

First, the stats...

The details of this weeks prune of the member-list -

12525 Members before this week's prune was run. (1368 new accounts since last week)
30 Day Prune has removed 278 dead accounts. (112 more were removed this Prune.)
This leaves our count at 12247 Members after the prune.
~1270 Peak Concurrent users this week. (Slower, but consistent growth in this number.)

Updated stats on Bans and Blacklist -

1806 Discord bans (+220 new from previous)
1908 accounts in total are now Blacklisted by @minnowsupport (+320 from previous!)

The Charts

Member count data over time:

This shows the trend of members gained over time. I use the number of users counted after each purge each week.

Blacklist Counts by Type:

This gives a breakdown of the major categories we list an account under in our Blacklist.

In summary:

The increases to bans and blacklists was impressive. I feel we got a great handle on some back-log of Multi-account violations and really got started in on the content issues. As the bot struggled for a couple of cycles and needed a couple rest periods, we are really looking at a way to maximize the value to those that deserve the vote. We will be continuing these efforts going forward and will only get more efficient at them.

A quick review of things that get you blacklisted:

A single image or even multiple images, with very little text or only a basic bit of information with it.
An embedded YouTube or DTube video with zero additions to the post that provide value.
Attempting to gain multiple upvotes outside our 1 per 24 hour cool-down by any means.
Any major violation of our community guidelines and rules. (This usually has to do with treatment of other users on the platform.)

Not all of these result in a ban from Discord since we want you to learn and improve.

Check out this post for more information.

Back on track for a secure and fair free-upvote service.