Witness Update: Introducing @mack-bot!

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What does mack-bot@mack-bot do?

mack-bot@mack-bot's sole purpose right now is to provide a token or marker downvote on known farming accounts immediately after they publish a post or comment. Currently it is running locally on one of my desktops but I have leased a VPS that my bots and scripts will be moved to in the next few weeks to ensure they run smoothly with a 100% uptime.

mack-bot@mack-bot is currently leaving comments in reply to both posts & comments that have been downvoted and will do so for the next 14 days. After that it will only downvote to prevent adding unnecessary spam to the block chain. I have over 14,500 accounts on my list and have found one or two that were false positives. I want to ensure that anyone who is downvoted and is not part of a farm can contact me to review their account and remove it from my list.

How can this benefit spaminator@spaminator & the community?

While the downvote has no real weight or effect on the the account reputation, post or comment it serves to identify active accounts. spaminator@spaminator will use this to follow up with a heavier downvote about 6 days after mack-bot@mack-bot's downvote to remove any pending rewards.

All community projects and bots are encouraged to follow both cheetah@cheetah & mack-bot@mack-bot votes. By adding code to your bots to check for a flag from either account before upvoting you can help stop these farms from profiting. minnowbooster@minnowbooster is the first community project to follow both bots.

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Wittnesses I vote for and support:

abit@abitguiltyparties@guiltypartiessomeguy123@someguy123
aggroed@aggroedjesta@jestasteemgigs@steemgigs
anyx@anyxlukestokes.mhth@lukestokes.mhthswelker101@swelker101
arcange@arcangeneoxian@neoxianteamsteem@teamsteem
ausbitbank@ausbitbanknetuoso@netuosothemarkymark@themarkymark
chitty@chittynnnarvaez@nnnarvaeztimcliff@timcliff
drakos@drakospfunk@pfunkwackou@wackou
fubar-bdhr@fubar-bdhrreggaemuffin@reggaemuffingood-karma@good-karma
furion@furionriverhead@riverheadyehey@yehey
gtg@gtgsircork@sircorkfollowbtcnews@followbtcnews


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Current Projects: steemcleaners@steemcleaners 馃櫍 spaminator@spaminator

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