I see no reason to continue funding fundition, steemcleaners or spaminator - if it was up to me all of them would have delegations removed. Fundition is straight up corrupt, making new spam accounts for spam content that does nothing but leech from the reward pool.
Steemcleaners should not be the #1 rewarded author for their automated spam reports, while selectively enforcing rules and ignoring abuse from their whale mates. Also its spelled "plagiarism".
I'm glad to see some reductions but in shock that fundition managed to keep any with their obvious corruption. Hopefully next round is more aggressive, this is potentially life-changing funding being discussed and it will have a massive influence over the future of steem - please take this seriously and stop rewarding bad actors.
@steemcleaners doesn't upvote itself. I'm not sure it's ever upvoted with Steemit delegation. Same with @spaminator. That's been the policy all along. The stake is used for abuse mitigation, ie downvotes only. This has the effect of returning rewards to the pool.
Other delegations to accounts that upvote have the effect of disenfranchising and diluting the influence of people who have earned, kept, and powered up their stake. It's those delegations that should be scrutinized with care, because if they aren't adding a lot of value to Steem, they're taking it from the STEEM market.
Okay although I wasn't meaning to imply they were using the delegation from steemit for upvotes. The upvotes come from adm, on automated reports and comments that anyone else would be flagged for (using the delegation). It's been a sore point for many people for a few years.
We definately need steemcleaners and/or other services like it - as well as a healthy ecosystem of manual abuse fighters for steem to survive & thrive. If they're being funded through author rewards as well as being given massive delegations for free - they should be accountable and consistent with how they apply their downvotes.
I agree completely that services contributing to rewarding low effort/spam content should be scrutinized as they have a bigger effect on the market.
The issue with manual abuse fighting, as @steemflagrewards tries to do, is that "abuse" is perceived differently from individual to individual. We have people scrutinize even the tiniest of bought votes. Then, there are those only looking for big purchase of several dollars.
Sure, there are objective lines like plagiarism, etc. But, other things can fall into gray lines.
Thanks for laying the truth out there, @ausbitbank.
Agreed. They have larges stakes and free downvotes now. Cut the delegations.
I agree, I came to fundition a few months back to get me project listed there, they had a bunch of obvious bugs on their website and even though I insisted several times none of them were solved.
And all these bugs had a big impact on if my users will trust them and all of them would've been easy fixed.
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Completely agree
Cut most of the delegations. Who are these lucky insiders and why do they get such a big portion of the currency? Too many people have been getting fat off the backs of the content-creators for too long.
Finally someone who says the truth straight away! @austibank
right i support this
now we don't need steemcleaner or spaminator because free downvote pool is live now.,
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How if the good actors have lost hope and left over time ?
Steemcleaners - spaminator - mac bot ect needs a more focused mandate. Copy pasting your title to your blog should not be an offense. These people are retards. Only big ticket items like child porn and hate groups should draw a these accounts into battle. Not making average users leave the platform over minor things. I am still on there list for copy pasting titles over a year ago. Last time I checked over a year ago they had attack 2500 dolphins. Either delegate to our bid bots or leave. You can see what most choose by looking at steems price.