As I have become minimally infamous for the #shitpost series wherein I call out users that abuse the platform for personal gain, I figured I would do a follow up on those I have outed and document what, if any progress we made towards cleaning up the platform.
But first, I have on occasion caught flak from other users for my proactive and somewhat aggressive method of outing and subsequently going after those that choose to abuse our fair community through nefarious and self serving means.
I have been downvoted for alerting lessors that the SP they were leasing out was being used by a bad actor in a way detrimental to the community. I have also been compared to the East German Stasi (secret police), called the moral police, a witch hunt creator and accused of being more abusive than those that consistently farm the rewards pool.
However, for every negative, I generally receive X3 the positive from other members whom actually care about the site, its long term health, and the greater community.
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Members like
; whom stepped up and immediately countered downvotes by those whom wanted me to turn a blind eye and let the abuse continue.
- Members like
; a delegate I alerted whom cancelled the delegation for the abuser, kept his word and began upvoting my posts as a thank you for my work towards keeping the community clean.
- Members like
,
,
etc. all have shown a great sense of community by helping me out from time to time by either countering malicious downvotes or promoting me when I had nothing to offer in return.
- Let me not forget those on the
and
team;
,
,
and
whom have been proactive in blacklisting accounts or going after accounts when notified and been very supportive of my repeated submissions to the various abuse channels.
- Members like
for delegating me some free SP to combat these morons
- Lastly you have other minnows like me
,
and
whom work with me to tirelessly promote each other’s content as we strive towards our whale destinies.
It is members like those above and many others that show the sense of community that gives me hope in the platform and motivates me to continue doing what I am doing for its betterment.
So let us do a recap of our efforts and results.
Article: https://steemit.com/steemit/@pawsdog/please-join-me-in-flagging-a-shit-post-and-reward-pool-abuser
He was essentially on the low end of shit posters by stealing FB images, posting them to later upvote with bots in excess of $60 SBD per post. Our efforts were successful in that they changed his pattern of behavior, the account is essentially dead now, and he has not as of yet not repeated his abusive behavior.
Article: https://steemit.com/shitpost/@pawsdog/the-shit-post-diaries-1-12-18-2
A slightly more damaging shit poster he would post random bullshit images of a camera, a ceiling fan, the sky etc. and robo buy votes at the last minute. He actually banked a couple thousand through his scheme. Now he is blacklisted by 
Article: https://steemit.com/shitpost/@pawsdog/the-shit-post-diaries-1-17-18-3
A typical youtube video thief that buys votes and self upvotes. While my write up was good, I think we failed in our follow through as her behavior is for the moment going unchecked and is essentially the same as it was prior to our efforts.
Article: https://steemit.com/shitpost/@pawsdog/the-shit-post-diaries-1-17-18-4
This idiot was actually somewhat interesting I that he would continually post a single bible verse per day and then use leased SP and Bots to upovote it. He would also make a shit ton of spam comments on his own posts and then use the leased SP to upvote those as well. He is, at this moment still a work in progress, though
- https://steemit.com/bible/@kospi/genesis-6-1#@kospi/re-kospi-genesis-6-1-20180127t032419288z
There are still a ton of spam self upvoted comments in need of purging and I invite all to show him some love.
Honorary #shitpost mention:
I would also like to give an honorary #shitpost mention to 
That’s the recap, Steem On… Together we can make a difference; we can impact these selfish morons and make their schemes considerably less profitable. We just have to be dedicated and consistent in our efforts and check back up on them from time to time and show them more love when appropriate.