My Account Was Banned On Weku After 2 Posts

in #weku5 years ago (edited)

So I was checking out this Steemit clone called Weku. I created an account around a month ago and they offered 100 free coins to sign up, so I went for it.

The site is pretty much exactly like Steemit with its own cryptocurrency called WEKU. It appears to be an ERC-20 Token that has not been distributed yet. Well, I thought I'd give it a go and post an introductory for myself.

I started off by reading the terms of use policy to see what the rules are. I couldn't find anything against re-posting a steem blog to my Weku account. So to get started, I essentially copied my intro post from steem and pasted it onto Weku with some modifications.

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Why me? I follow most of the rules..

Everything went fine and I even got some nice upvotes from someone who seems to be a community leader/whale on the platform. I waited a couple of days and then made another post. About an hour later, I was automatically logged out, and when I tried to log back in I got the following:

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I also found a post on Steem where someone had specifically asked the Weku devs if it would be okay to re-post a Steem post and they said it would be fine as long as it is mentioned in the post that it is a repost.

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Me figuring out this weird 360 camera thingie.

Well, I saw this after the fact so I did not mention that it was re-posted from Steem. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and assumed that perhaps they thought I was plagiarizing some guy called Nuthman. They have an account on Steem called @winwinwin where you can send steem to buy WEKU tokens. I went ahead and send 0.13 or so Steem and an email to prove that I was the same person. They went ahead and sent the tokens to my account, but left it disabled.

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Amusing myself at the store.

At this point, I am not feeling very comfortable with the Weku platform. The fact that they can just disable your account at any time is not very comforting. I guess I will just wait and see what happens. I just wanted to let everyone know that you should be careful with this clone site if you decide to check it out!

I guess I do like the fact that they are actively seeking out and destroying potential scammers, but it would be nice if they at least gave me the chance to prove who I am without banning my account. Hell, I don't even know if this is the reason that they banned me. I am just guessing because the ban message was so darn ambiguous! Hopefully I'll get an email back tomorrow letting me know the reason for the ban and if it will be lifted.

In the meantime, SAD:

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UPDATE: Today my account was reinstated. They also gave me 50 free coins, which was very generous of them! We shall see how things go.

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Having your money in a system, that can ban your account at will isn't very enticing. I had opened an account there, when it was difficult to post on steemit during the last hard fork... didn't do much there since then and probably won't, after reading about your experience.

Been wanting to sign up with whaleshares for a long time... maybe I should really finally give it a try. Gotta find out how to do it first ;-)

Yeah, I just got on whaleshares yesterday. It was a mighty pain in the butt, but may be worth it. You have to use the bitshares app/exchange to get set up, then this other thing called rudex to convert whatever crypto you want into WLS - then tranfer it and power it up.

The other barrier is getting a witness to activare your account. I ended up getting on their discord channel and a nice lady there got me going.

The process is a bit complicated which is troubling for mass adoption.

I did the same, and it has been like the old steemit, before the hard fork, so it has become about equal time with steem, and I am seeing more activity there, than on Steemit.

Weku is beginning to be fun too.

:)>

Weku? Never heard of it. I know WEKA - it's an machine learning and data science algorithms library with UI. Developed in some australian University I guess. When it comes to Steemit copies, Im on whaleshares. The payouts there are crazy high there and reposting of Steemit posts is fine as well. Powerdown is one year tho...

And to the hacking part, as long as it dodn't happen here on Steemit, you should be fine :D Btw do youdo any special things to ensure your Steemit acc is safe?

Yeah, definitely not a machine learning library. And I think the developers are from China.

I actually just attempted to create an account on Whaleshares earlier today. I have been "waiting on approval" all day. I have no clue how long it will take to actually get the account. It seems a bit more complicated to get the tokens though... I got on bitshares as required but I can't figure out how to actually buy any tokens. I suppose I'll wait until my account is created and go from there.

Hah I went thru the very same process myself :D Join the discord HERE and write @krazykrista#3970 ....she can speed things up, I was waiting 2 weeks and then someone told me the same.

And you can buy WLS tokens only on Rudex so far. It was relatively easy altho there's almost no liquidity (is that the word?) on the exchange, soo you end up buying tokens +- 30% depending on the day :D

Also, I have some extra WLS cuz I'm waiting for the "double down" post from someone. It has been there already twice - some whale decided that if you power up and send him printscreen in the comments, he'd double it down for you by his huuuuuge upvote. So you might consider waiting as well altho who knows if it comes :D

Edit: Weka is developed at Waikato University, New Zealand. Just googled it hah :D Nice that you know it :)

Thanks for the info! I sent @krazykrista a direct message on discord. Hopefully she can help me!

hi @nuthman

Thank you for sharing your story with us. I was lately wondering if should I or should I not give WEKU a chance. Right now my answer is quite obvious.

Im wondering, what would happend if you would have your own WEKU (or whatever token they use) already stored on that platform. Blocking your account would means STEALING your resources by them.

Thank you for your warning.

Yours
Piotr

Looks like there is nothing blocking them from banning people at whim and seizing token balances? Not very reassuring.

Yeah, I'm not to keen on it...

Unfortunatelly :(

Not reassuring at all @jbgarrison72

Yeah, that's what I was wondering too. It seems a bit sketchy. To be fair, it looks like your keys belong to you, but the problem that I see is that they physically hold all of the tokens. They are not tradeable yet. They could disappear tomorrow and take all the tokens.

I would hope that they wouldn't, but you never know.

thank you for being so responsive @nuthman

yours
Piotr

Lol! Font be sad @nuthman. As long as I know weku is not that good like steemit or whaleshare. It's just an avg clone. You can crosspost in whaleshare, I am doing it and no problem in there.
The 3rd picture of you wearing a hat is just hilarious. _😂

stay healthy and keep posting

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hehe, thanks. I was waiting for Amanda at the store. She was taking too long so I started playing with the Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations.

I will check out whaleshares too.. I was not aware of it.

Its better than weku and smoke. I dont know from where can transgorm my wls tokens... But in future i ll convert it to steem

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Did you have to wait a long time to create the account? I am stuck "Waiting for Approval". It has been like that all day.

Are you in whaleshare discord official server? If not, then ping me in discord I will send u the link. Thir admins can help u.

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I haven't tried Weku but did create a Whaleshares account last week, which is another Steemit clone.

I too duplicated a post here on there, but mentioned it in the footer.

I havent been banned, but it got zero attention and no votes.. LOL.

I dont think Ill go back. One of these is enough for me.

Yeah, I was just checking out whaleshares now. Man, it is a bit complicated to figure out how to get the coins and how to trade them. I've been learning about bitshares and rudex. I think I may skip it as well!

By the way.. I love that Slobberchops logo image.. lol!

I joined weku a couple of months ago. I have posted about 20 posts all of them copied from steemit, without mentioning that this is a re-post and my account works just fine. I have quit posting though. I think it is just a bad clone with no potential and I don't want to waste my time even for re-posting. Maybe you should not feel so bad if they don't reactivate your account.

Yeah, I don't know why they targeted me. But to be fair you are right. It's probably not worth my effort.

I don't feel secured in banning accounts for any reason Sir @nuthman so I didn't pursue in continuing to do posts in WEKU while in whaleshares the token is freakin' .02 cents so it is not worthwhile spending time there.

i already knew about it. somebody told me. i feel like its fake thatswhy i did not join it.

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