Limiting Signal For Non-Writers
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Cody Dakota Wooten
I have noticed something interesting recently - there seems to be some accounts that do not have any writings who "heavily" reward specific writers. They award signal to all of that individuals pieces, including giving them "every" gold they have available. So this "non-writer" is giving something like 3000+ Signal to One Writer over a week.
I could be wrong, but it seems like it could be fake accounts designed to help specific individuals rise in the Leaderboard faster.
If Typeshare is a Community for Digital Writers, I would recommend that Awarding Signal should be restricted to those who are actually Writing.
If I correctly understand Signal Correct, it is a Tool for Digital Writers to tell other Digital Writers what is/is not working. Allowing Non-Writers to Award Signal Freely, especially gold, seems like a recipe for Fake Accounts to rise up.
To deter this, you could require New Accounts to Write before they are allowed to Award Signal. If not Completely Blocking Signal until writing, you could at least Restrict Gold Giving until they Write. Perhaps even making it a requirement to publish at least 1/week before they "unlock" the ability to award Gold.
I would hate for Typeshare to fall into the problem of being taken over by bots like so many other "social" platforms have fallen into. It destroys real community.
Sam Shore
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Ok, so it's actually very easy for us to see when this happens on the backend, so we've been cracking down on people creating multiple accounts (and giving themselves Signal) by banning them temporarily from the leaderboard.
This has been effective at curbing this issue so I don't think we need to limit Signal giving yet as we can deal with this in other ways for now.
However, if this method stops working, then 100% we'll limit people giving Signal / Gold.
Please let me know if you notice any writers engaging in this as it violates or terms of use (sam@typeshare.co).
Thank you!
Cody Dakota Wooten
Sam Shore Fantastic to hear!
If those people are caught, are those points adjusted as well?
In the long run it isn't a huge deal, catching it is the bigger issue, but it would be nice if that could be done.
Sam Shore
Cody Dakota Wooten: sort-of, if someone is banned for a week, they can still receive Signal, but they dont place anywhere on the leaderboard.
But as of now, the total signal is still kept as it was. On my list is to rebalance this. We can do it, just a matter of making the time for me to go through and update their signal counts.
Will def do this before any updates that make lifetime signal more important.
Cody Dakota Wooten
Sam Shore sounds fantastic! Thank you for addressing this!
I know there are a lot of things happening on the backend, so I really appreciate that you care about making this as beneficial as possible for all of the writers here.
It has been really exciting to me seeing new faces on the leaderboard who have been producing some amazing work.
Keep up the amazing work, to you and team!
C
Catherine Reohorn
I’d support that.
It seems like the community on typeshare is starting to blossom.
I’d love to see that continue through quality writing, human-only comments, and the power of community led interaction to give feedback.