On August 23rd it was one year since the introduction of 
Did you know
We want to thank the community for the support they have given us the past year. A special thanks goes out to 
Growing pains.
Community Presence
Recent developments forced
Beginning in May we had upvotes from 250+ members of the community on each post. Sometimes posts received up-votes from 350-400 members of the community.
Since July 10th we have made an effort to keep the reports off the trending page to avoid having them downvoted, and while this has succeeded, it has also had some negative effects for both the community &
Visibility
There are new users that have no clue who we are or what we do as a group. They are surprised to find our comments on their posts and don't see us a 'voice' representing the community. Users who don't know about #steemitabuse are floundering looking for support to tackle abuse on their own. Many resorting to writing posts that are not being seen.
Funding
The goal of
- Steem Power received gives our downvotes weight.
- SBD received is redistributed to the community:
Members of our group work long hours -- effectively full time jobs -- and the rewards they receive are substantially less than what they deserve for the hours they contribute to this project. Additionally, the entire community is able to receive the same (or even more!) rewards, should you help out.
If you appreciate what we do, consider visiting the blogs of individual members listed at the end of the post, and showing your support. Several of our members are running as witnesses, please consider voting for them here!
Keep in mind you have 10 full powered votes per day: consider using just 1 of the 10 to help combat abuse, whether it be by downvoting plagiarists, or by upvoting our posts or comments so we can better help serve the community. All of the reward is being distributed to anyone fighting abuse!
Self Voting
With the loss of support from the community we are currently self-upvoting comments at 2% and 
We are actively looking for alternate means of supporting this project (and if you have ideas, feel free to comment below). Until then we will continue as we have; the alternative isn't something we would like to think about.
Delegation
Have some Steem Power you aren’t using and want to help keep Steemit Clean? No delegation is too small!
Looking To The Next Year
Updating the Abuse Guide
In the next week or two we will be posting an updated Abuse Guide to incorporate the changes that have taken place in the community and within
The Spaminators (
)
The Spaminators was formed with the help of other members of the community and 
Introducing #ask-patrice
You can find the #ask-patrice channel on Discord. Have questions about
Questions will be responded to as
Active
We’ve added two new members to the ranks. Please bear with them as they learn the ropes! Welcome 
First Year Statistics
These are actually short one day. Doh!
Just over 400 Steemians have participated in reporting abuse to
| Overall Stats | |
|---|---|
| Number of Accounts Logged | 8525 |
| Total Number of Logs | 18395 |
| Abuse Type | Times Reported |
|---|---|
| Plagiarism | 7425 |
| Tag Spam | 2751 |
| Spam/Scam | 2400 |
| Copy & Paste | 2398 |
| Photo Plagiarism | 2021 |
| Other | 508 |
| High Freq Poster (No longer Used) | 468 |
| Comment Spam | 374 |
| Undefined | 44 |
| Quote Formatting | 6 |