Reflections

in #thoughts5 years ago (edited)

Man I used to hate those @steemcleaners. Cheetah kept commenting on my posts (that resembled my other posts), one of my bots got flagged by I forget whom but @steemcleaners were suspected, some guy named @Logic didn't reply to my ill-formatted complaint. And who the hell even knows what they flag or don't flag? The usual. And what the hell is a "steem cleaner" anyway?


The thing you use to get jizz out of cabs?

Then I met this weird French guy named "Patrice". I'm not that picky who I talk to and I'm generally pretty accepting of the French. We got Quebec a few hours away from here after all. I think I confused @Patrice and @Drakos for a day or two, or at least facts about them. You know how it goes when you're drinking.


The only Patrice I knew of

I'm not the best judge of character by far. Hell until recently I thought that @Arcange was a 20 year old Asian kid. That @Patrice guy seemed to really care about stopping abuse, particularly all those ID thieves we had around in 2017. For a while there were all these accounts made up "on behalf of" pretty girls, largely without their knowledge or consent. Most of those girls were found at foreign universities or just on the street, tricked to let some guy snap a photo of them holding a piece of paper, and then it went from there. Then we had all those bloggers that had accounts created "for them". Then all that phishing started. Either way, @Patrice turned out to be the polar opposite of what I originally figured.

I took the time to see what the @steemcleaners team was doing and offered a hand in chat at times. What one figures they're doing and what they're actually doing aren't the same thing. It's hard to really get the scope and impact until you see a writer or artist in chat having a panic attack over the fact that they found their work stolen and reposted without their permission. Particularly where their internet presence is all they have and with its SEO, the stolen art comes up on Google ahead of their own page. The worst are the published book authors who know copyright laws and are going for the throat of the next guy who crosses them now that they found their work poorly-c/p'ed on Steemit. Try explaining to them what a decentralized blockchain is.

And with @Logic? It turned out he was someone I followed when I first got into Steemit. That revelation kinda went like this:


Gifycat/Imgur

Know how we have a major push here to get Steem listed on Niffler? If it wasn't for the @steemcleaners verification process that would've never happened. Verification has proven to be the hands down number one way to get blockchain and crypto devs genuinely connected with the Steem ecosystem. About half of all projects that came on the @steemcleaners Discord to correct mistakes ended up talking about SMTs.

This is just a short reflection. We've got all these anti-abuse projects like @steemflagrewards, @lince, @jaguar.force, @utopian-io anti-abuse component, @plentyofphish and more going now. They don't matter to anyone except for the writer who had her work plagiarized or the guy with two kids who had his entire wallet stolen by phishers. Dealing with abuse is a pretty thankless job. The only reward you get are death threats. Just ask @themarkymark how it goes.

And you probably saw the last post by the @steemcleaners that talks about working with communities. That's all because money and time are being invested to get all these great projects set up (@steempress, @tasteem, @actifit, @steemhunt to name a few), they start rolling and then bam, scammers start hitting them. Think they give two shits that some guy invested his own savings into them? Or that genuine users are working their asses off? Hell no. It's not a mistake. Lambos aren't free and everyone wants one.


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I thought @arcange was a 20 year old asian kid too until I saw a photo from steemfest a couple weeks ago. 😂

Btw wuts a StemitClener? 🤔 Stemit iz nut clen... 😁

Glad I'm not the only one haha

Thanks sooo much for everything that you do!

Thanks Melinda.

Tu trabajo y el del equipo es genial y debe ser reconocido...

muchos gracias mi amigo

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