Threat Level - Blue
No new accounts found to be phishing. All known accounts flagged to 0 reputation or less.
BOLO (Be on the lookout): Revenue earning short links such as adf.ly. 
Bot Posts: If you don't like it - Flag it!
If it flags back let me know!
Curation & News feed bots are on the rise and 
So if you like it - upvote it! If you don't like it - flag it! Personally I wish I had enough SP to flag most of these every day all day long.
This is data for the last 7 days.
| Author | Post Count | Votes | Pending Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| trafficmonitor | 1679 | 8299 | 49.41 |
| monitorcap | 1678 | 9358 | 61.684 |
| markboss | 1597 | 5057 | 39.087 |
| vertical | 1579 | 5183 | 38.787 |
| jack.the.ripper | 1509 | 6469 | 62 |
| drumz | 1431 | 1721 | 17.3 |
| manuel20 | 1416 | 1528 | 13.433 |
| bsc | 1281 | 1248 | 12.456 |
| nonstop | 1219 | 3550 | 29.882 |
| ryox | 1174 | 1302 | 17.092 |
| holunder | 1019 | 1373 | 11.946 |
| bet365 | 785 | 1244 | 9.662 |
| ripplebizz | 781 | 35 | 11.54 |
| ethereum-news | 778 | 897 | 9.994 |
| bitcoinhub | 778 | 612 | 12.304 |
| icocoin | 768 | 1599 | 13.851 |
| neohub | 750 | 1585 | 48.92 |
| bwin | 661 | 1084 | 8.314 |
| tipico | 661 | 1016 | 11.241 |
| sam19 | 428 | 458 | 6.82 |
Dilemma: Post & Comment Farm, Self Voting or Clique Voting?
All of these accounts have the same voting pattern:
| Author | Post Count | Votes | Pending Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| fumegi | 308 | 2424 | 17.008 |
| dirtywhale | 304 | 2330 | 14.585 |
| cheaperwhale | 99 | 758 | 4.979 |
| rgau1985 | 200 | 1538 | 11.475 |
| cheapwhale | 69 | 594 | 4.987 |
| isnochys | 67 | 766 | 9.265 |
| drowningwhale | 70 | 568 | 3.636 |
| rdstm1985 | 145 | 1299 | 14.575 |
| yarsb21 | 93 | 870 | 6.103 |
While writing this I stumbled on what looked like some clique voting but if it is... It takes to the extreme as they seem to only comment on each others posts as well and funds are being transferred to a single account.
I'm thinking they need to be fed to 
But it brings up the question of where do I draw the line? The sheer number of posts between these accounts makes the choice somewhat easy in this case. But I've stumbled across others that are not so clear cut.
Steem Growth Forum
Some interesting ideas there.
My thought was to create a website frontend that users can report posts directly to
Unfortunately my programming abilities are pretty limited and the time I have to learn what I would need to is non existent. And before everyone starts throwing tomatoes at me for a half baked idea... I'm just sharing a thought I had since a lot of other users have stepped up to run their own condensers or websites like utopian.io built on the block chain.
"inviteafriend"
Was also one of my favorite ideas. Especially if those friends take on the role of mentoring and guiding the new users. I think that alone would help steemit grow and retain new users. One of the things I hate about all the time I spend here working on abuse is that I get little opportunity to help those that need it.
When
With the new delegation I will be expanding my search for comment & post farms spamming. I am also considering whether or not to add other types of spam to the scope. No point in letting the SP sit there when it can be used to combat spam.
I've reached the limited capabilities of using WordPress and forms. I'm now exploring the options to develop a site with PHP & MySQL in the near future. If anyone has any better suggestions I'm all ears. PHP seems the easiest for me at the moment.
Witness Voting
You can vote for my witness here.
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