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CategoryQuestionProject's ResponseWeighting %Minimum Knock Out Score ThresholdMedian Rating %Clarification Required
Clarification Response
Open / Closed
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1.1InfoTimestamp9/2/2019 19:45:05
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1.2InfoApplication TierTOP (1,000,000 SP)
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2.1
Requirement
Transaction of Application FeeSteemd is not caught up to retrieve Transaction ID at this time
OK if adequate amount of steem has been burned
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2.2
Requirement
Image Proof of Application FeeWill be provided at a later time when Steemd is available
OK if adequate amount of steem has been burned
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3.1
Project info
Company NameSpaminatorRate section as a whole
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3.2
Project info
Place of IncorporationN/A, Decentralized
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3.3
Project info
Token name (if applicable)N/A
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3.4
Project info
Token Type (ERC20, Steem-Engine, SMT etc)N/A
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3.5
Project info
Project TypeDownvoting Project
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3Section Subtotal:11.01
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4.1
Delegation received (purpose)
When did you get the delegation?1 June 2018N/A
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4.2
Delegation received (purpose)
Under what terms (if any) did you receive the delegation?To allow sufficient Steem Power for a large-scale anti-abuse effort.11.0
Please confirm that you accept that any approval of this delegation renewal becomes the terms for your future delegation
The terms of the previous delegation are as originally stated: To only use for downvoting in order to counter persistent reward pool drain. The delegation may not be used for upvoting.

I will accept any and all current terms as specified in this delegation renewal.
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4.3
Delegation received (purpose)
What was the intended purpose for the delegation?To only use for downvoting in order to counter persistent reward pool drain.11.0
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4.4
Delegation received (purpose)
How have you applied your delegation for that purpose?The delegation was granted by Ned Scott on behalf of Steemit, Inc.21.0
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4.5
Delegation received (purpose)
How long are you requesting the continuation with the delegation?2 years, On @spaminator-warn (50k) and @spaminator-clear (remainder) accounts. We are not requesting a pure renewal of delegation for the @spaminator account but a move.

The purpose of the change is to optimize the naming convention and make it clearer for users. NOT ON @Spaminator please. 		11.0
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4Section Subtotal:54.0
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5.1MarketWhat problem is the product/project solving?Spaminator aims to deter large-scale reward and account exploitation attempts by systemically removing rewards from comments and posts. It focuses on the act of farming or spam for the detrimental purposes of extraction and differentiates between that and service bots or interactions with a meaning. It's scope is fluid and gets revisited on a semi-annual basis, keeping it relevant to currently-applicable scenarios.514.0What is the current scope
The scope is fluid and gets revised regularly. The current scope rests on cases of farming or spam for the detrimental purposes of reward pool extraction and other malicious ends.

faucet (free Steemit-issued account) abuse/multi-account rings
comment farming
comment spam
post farming
'botnets'/automated account clusters
follow up of hacker/phishing accounts

The scope changes based on the current needs of the STEEM ecosystem. To see an example of change in progress, please see this post regarding community input.
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5Section Subtotal:54.0
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6.1
Core Team Details
Write short summaries about each core team member including their achievements to show they have a strong track record. Add links to their LinkedIn profiles to this section.
@Guiltyparties is a former developer and decentralized venture leader who took over the @Spaminator project from @Patrice who is currently away due to exigent circumstances. He joined the Steemcleaners team after personal initiatives to combat fraud while educating users. He has over 20 years experience in organisation and leadership, which he uses to liaise between the Steemcleaners family of projects and the Steem ecosystem. He is also a witness, managing developer of the BROSGN family of gaming sites, interim board member of the Steem Foundation, and founder of DLine.
Github: https://github.com/gryter

@Patrice is the Founder of the @Spaminator project and is currently involved in an Advisory Role. 		15311.0
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6Section Subtotal:1511.0
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7.1MVPProvide links to your minimum viable products and describe it. If it is not available, please describe it and include how you plan to build it and when it will be built.The backend involves a management website and API. It allows members of the Steemcleaners team to add users, activate and deactivate them, add and manage groups, and see various helpful information pulls.

The bot backend is a comprehensive Python framework using the Beem library. It runs both the warning downvote (@mack-bot) and the reward pool return funds downvote (@spaminator) accounts at once. It is designed to be modular and can incorporate any number of accounts in a diverse manner.		15310.5
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7Section Subtotal:1510.5
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8.1
Business Strategy
Fiat Revenue Strategy: [E.g. We plan to sell NFTs which represent in-game items for US Dollars]This initiative is non-profit and does not generate a positive income for the purpose of returns.21.2
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8.2
Business Strategy
Fiat Revenue Projections in $/user every month: [E.g. $10/user]N/A10.50
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8.3
Business Strategy
How will your business strategy increase the amount of STEEM being powered up and/or burnt?The calculations involved in the Spaminator Framework will be adjusted to scale with and fit the Steem ecosystem. Going forward, should the project produce revenue beyond what is needed to support the cost of the infrastructure, the remainder STEEM will be burned.20.51.00
There is a strategy for revenue here? Note for a spam project, this isn't really required, but just curious
Spaminator contributes to a cleaner, more resilient blockchain. It encourages investment based on the confidence of users to invest in a blockchain that has a community-driven anti-abuse/security mechanism in place as a cohesive part of its ecosystem.

Spaminator itself does not generate any revenue. It is a not-for-profit project and its only purpose is to help better the Steem ecosystem by protecting the reward pool and mitigating the amount of spam and malicious exploitation.
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8.4
Business Strategy
What financial incentives are you willing to provide to Steemit, Inc. and/or the Steem Community in return for the delegation? i.e. What’s your skin in the game? [E.g. project tokens, revenue-share, etc.](Without a return there’s not a partnership, it’s simply a contribution, and one that’s easily left behind. In order to encourage businesses and communities to commit to the Steem blockchain and ecosystem long term there needs to be both a contract and a mutually benefical partnership.)@Spaminator restores funds to the reward pool, amplifying the utility of the Steem Community. It also detects, deters and removes organized exploitation groups and covert reward drain attempts. This increases the utility, marketability, and general well-being of the Steem ecosystem, leading to cost-saving measures and residual positive side effects.20.51.50
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8.5
Business Strategy
Are you or how will you become financially sustainable once the delegation is removed?We will seek alternative delegation sources.30.52.0
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8Section Subtotal:106.2
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9.1
KPI Progress Measurement
KPI 1 descriptionMaintain a steady flow of investigations of malicious accounts.Rate Section as a whole. Median score of less than 1 for whole section is subject to being knocked out
Would like to see some measure of impact from removal. Suggested: accumulation of computation of reward without downvote + reward with downvote, if about removing milking.
Approximately 25 to 100+ individual accounts get manually processed (evaluated and re-evaluated) on a daily basis. Each account is added to Spaminator after careful evaluation of blockchain-based transactions and removed after a successful appeal or our pro-active re-evaluation. The hours required to manage those are donated via our Discord. We place equal emphasis on both addition and removal.

We will formulate new KPIs moving forward
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9.2
KPI Progress Measurement
KPI 1 target:Maintain the flow of 2000 interception instances per quarter.
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9.3
KPI Progress Measurement
KPI 2 description:Consistently identify organized exploitation or cybercrime groups.
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9.4
KPI Progress Measurement
KPI 2 target:Categorize and identify a total of 100 groups on an annual basis.
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9.5
KPI Progress Measurement
KPI 3 description:Effectively discourage and reduce automated/semi-automated post and comment spam, including phishing comments. [Qualitative KPI]
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9.6
KPI Progress Measurement
KPI 3 target:Observable diminishing of instances of exploitation by identified malicious actors/groups.
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9Section Subtotal:54.03
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10.1
Token Details
Are you / Will you be offering a token?NoRate Section as a whole. Median score of less than 1 for whole section is subject to being knocked out
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10.2
Token Details
Token Launch date
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10.3
Token Details
Total Token Supply at launch (in number of tokens)
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10.4
Token Details
Fundraising target (in order to fund expansion into the operational / project growth phase / mass market adoption), in USD
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10.5
Token Details
Percentage Yearly Inflation
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10.6
Token Details
Percentage of total token supply that will be airdropped to ALL Steem stakeholders (a.k.a. SP holders) in proportion to their SP
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10.7
Token Details
How many tokens will you offer Steemit Inc. / the Steem Community in exchange for the delegation?
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10.8
Token Details
Do you plan to launch an IEO, ICO, STO or other public token offering?
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10.9
Token Details
Do you plan to raise money from other investors?
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10.10
Token Details
What is the vesting period, in months, for the team members?
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10.11
Token Details
What is the vesting period, in months, for the early / seed round investors?
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10.12
Token Details
What is the vesting period, in months, for ICO investors?
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10.13
Token Details
What is the % token distribution to the team?
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10.14
Token Details
What is the % token distribution to marketing?
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10.15
Token Details
If you haven’t tokenized, but still provide a service, please describe the service and the amount of that service that you’re offering to perform for Steemit and/or the Steem community in exchange for the delegation.The amount of the service that is offered is 100%. The service is unique to the Steem blockchain and is non-transferable.

The service is as described above.
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10Section Subtotal:54.50
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11.1
Delegation Request
Specify the desired time frame for the delegation in 6 month increments: [E.g. 6 months, 12 months, etc.]24 months (2 years)212.02
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11.2
Delegation Request
Which one of the following answers best describes how the delegation will be used to add direct value to Steem? Select all that apply.It will be used to ensure the continued resiliency of the Steem blockchain against spam and malicious exploitation and to return illicitly gained rewards to the communal reward pool.33.0
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11Section Subtotal:55.0
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12.1
Agreement
We agree that our business will continue to leverage the Steem blockchain as long as we are receiving a delegation and 1 year following the removal of the delegation. During this time we also agree to promote the Steem blockchain as a valuable technological protocol that delivers unique value. We are willing to sign a legally binding contract with Steemit, Inc. to this effect.Yes212.0
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12Section Subtotal:22.0
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13.1
Renewal Metrics
For Questions 1-10, please upload a CSV of the data.https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EQKqzJhJQ2JP5dSwUihMHAsVUbL9IZ2k
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Renewal Metrics
For Question 7, Table 2, please upload a CSV of the data. (Remember to place the totals for all clients in table 1)https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oRcTVeR66fJBjdw0rb5qIzC59JlgRbDK
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13.3
Renewal Metrics
How many new accounts have been created using your projects' account this quarter?30.0
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13.4
Renewal Metrics
a) How many Steem accounts are interacting with your project (this includes guest accounts as well as Steem user accounts)20.0
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13.5
Renewal Metrics
b) How many Guest (non Steem) accounts are interacting with your project20.0
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13.6
Renewal Metrics
How many impressions is your project getting?20.0
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13.7
Renewal Metrics
What is the total quarterly (USD) value of rewards disbursed directly tied to the delegation? (can be a negative number of your projects is a flagging project)31.0Would like to see some measure here
Unfortunately there is no good way for us to process quarterly metrics at this time but here are some numbers to help evaluate our work in 2019.

the value of STEEM in 2019 varied from approx 52 cents to 13 cents
if we take the median of STEEM's price in 2019 we end up at approx 32.5 cents/STEEM

Spaminator:

881 instances of 100% downvotes (all of the downvotes were added up to compose those 100%s) for 2019 current to 7 Oct 2019
881 100%s equal to approx $79,290 returned to the reward pool

Mack-bot:

555 of 100% downvotes (same data pull as above)
555 100%s equal to approx $4,440 returned to the reward pool

The figures are not exact as there are other considerations:

the massive attack by animalcontrol that tied up Spaminator for a while
downtime due to rebuilding (Spaminator and Mack-bot were entirely rewritten this year)
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13.8
Renewal Metrics
How much external revenue have you generated in USD per quarter? Do not count Steem income from curation / voting.20.0
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13.9
Renewal Metrics
How much revenue have you brought to Steem as measured by total STEEM powered up through your project's Steem accounts40.0
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13.10
Renewal Metrics
How much Steem is delegated to your project to manage on behalf of your clients? (fill sum in table 1, and show break down by client on table 2)20.0
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13.11
Renewal Metrics
How much Steem Power is delegated to your project from the Steem community?20.0
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13.12
Renewal Metrics
For the KPIs listed above, back report progress for the duration of the delegation on a quarter by quarter basis.32.0
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13.13
Renewal Metrics
How much Steem / SBD has your project burned?30.0
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13.14
Renewal Metrics
Describe what value the project continues to bring to the Steem community and why the community should continue to support your project?@Spaminator is an objective anti-abuse project that aims to restore rewards to the communal reward pool while detecting and deterring organized exploitation attempts. Much of its work is under the surface and is not clearly visible to the average user. This is because organized exploitation attempts are usually well-hidden and masqueraded to avoid detection.

To put it into perspective, roughly 25k accounts on the @Spaminator action list are owned by a single entity who automated their actions in a very diverse and creative way to avoid detection. While some users may disagree with downvoting or the very concept of anti-abuse, everyone can agree that massive, unmanned exploitative farms are detrimental and must be eradicated from the ecosystem.		212.0
a) To answer this question in relation to Spaminator (it is phrased for Steemcleaners), the following numbers are true to today:

Spaminator's activities are not classified by 'action' but by 'owner'
it is meant to mitigate the impact of large account clusters and high-frequency actors
there are 65,193 accounts presently on the Spaminator blacklist
there are 642 groups (account clusters) in total
largest group is called 'dart' and has 21,698 automated accounts with regular creation of new ones through the means of faucet exploitation
second largest has 3,469 accounts

Spaminator's regular queue ranges from approximately 1,500 accounts at the lowest to over 10,000 at the highest. Here is a small screenshot of what Spaminator looks like:

The end goal of Spaminator is to help create an ecosystem where that queue drops down to zero because there is no more systemic exploitation.

b) In my delegation renewal request I asked for the delegated SP to be split between two new Spaminator accounts: @spaminator-warn and @spaminator-clear.

Spaminator-warn is requesting 50k SP.
The remainder of the delegation should go to Spaminator-clear.
Spaminator-warn is meant to replace Mack-bot, which will be re-purposed for an educational project.
Spaminator-clear is meant to replace the actions of Spaminator.
The flagship Spaminator account will be used in conjunction with the SP it has but on a different schedule.

Steemcleaners and Spaminator are completely different projects, despite sharing parts of a team. They are managed and operated on different servers, their frameworks are coded in different languages, and they aim to fill a different set of gaps that lead to the unfortunate exploitation of the Steem ecosystem. It is technically not possible through any means to combine Steemcleaners and Spaminator into one account.

c) There have been several cases recently where we had to use both projects to restore rewards to the blockchain. During the massive attack by the crystalliu group we have had to overlap our votes to ensure we are returning the huge sums.

d) Following HF21 there have been a lot of users using their downvotes on what they feel is abuse. Often what they downvote is highly subjective. Our work targets specific scopes of fraud and exploitation, including cases that may either be invisible to the majority of the userbase (there are a set of specialized skills involved in being on our core team) or too challenging to address.

Over the years we have developed a manual social network analysis capability that we use to discover organized exploitation rings. Where a normal user will see a single user account, we see it for what it is: an automated bot account in a cluster of 650 other similar bot accounts. We can't expect normal users, who should be enjoying the Steem ecosystem, to pick up the slack.

Engagement of regular users and stakeholders is not a substitution for a systemic approach honed by years of experience.



During episodes of phishing we had to drain all of our accounts to virtually zero in order to halt its spread. One of the reasons normal users aren't seeing abuse is because of the speed and effectiveness of both projects. Because the projects are separate (both in respect to the size of the accounts and the coding of the account control mechanisms, which are different), we are equipped to address any type of sophisticated content-driven attack on the blockchain or reward pool.
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Renewal Metrics
Describe your project roadmap with expected timelines and milestones.We are looking at developing a way for community members to positively engage with and contribute to the @Spaminator project. We will have our official roadmap ready early in 2019 Q4.

We will also formulating a STEEM burn methodology.

The goal is to make this a true community project. 		211.0
Please confirm that this project is attempting to decentralise and in some way anonomize its moderators in order to reduce risk of large, abusive whales attacking individual moderators based on their downvots through spamminator
Spaminator does not have any moderators (or individual reporters as Steemcleaners has). There are no whales involved in it in any way. Further, users may not downvote through Spaminator. This is impossible. Spaminator is a bot that works off its framework and does not have any external input from any individual users who may face retaliation from whales.
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13Section Subtotal:326.0
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