Anti-Abuse Team Weekly Report #2
Friday - September 8th - 2017
Another week has passed and we have now got a start to our data. Today we are going to cover that, as well as some other developments for the AA Team this week. I will give some vague shout-outs to some people who have helped with tools and support, as well as take a deeper look at what the Blacklist holds in it's depths.
The details of this weeks prune of the member-list -
- 4604 Members before this week's prune was run. (242 new accounts since last week)
- 30 Day Prune has removed 231 dead accounts. (93 less were removed this Prune)
- This leaves our count at 4373 Members after the prune.
- ~485 Concurrent users online at 13:30 EST (+21% from previous)
Updated stats on Bans and Blacklist -
- 508 Discord bans (+48 from previous)
- 261 accounts in total are now Blacklisted by @minnowsupport (+40 from previous)
A deeper look at the Blacklisted accounts -
Unfortunately, we haven't always saved the information for why an account was added to the Blacklist. This means I can't give you anything concrete beyond some estimated percentages based on what I have seen since starting this program. I have been involved in just about every addition to this list personally, so I can safely make these estimations.
- About 80-85% of the accounts on that list are part of a multi-account type of abuse.
- Of those, there are probably only about 70 people behind the 220 or so accounts they created to avoid the 12 hour cool-down.
- Of the remainder, all but a few are due to plagiarism. The few remaining are from content type being against the rules for the bot. (NSFW, hate-speech, etc)
A thanks to some people who have helped behind the scenes this week -
This week saw the birth a new tool for investigating multiple-account abuse of the bots. While I won't go into details about how we use it, I will now take a moment to thank @mahdiyari for their contribution. They heard my call for a tool, stepped up, and completed it inside of 2.5 hours. They are a witness and for this, they got my vote. They should get your vote as well.
I also want to thank @alexpmorris for his contribution to this initiative as well. He managed to find a way to automate some of the base-level detection of abuse for us, freeing me personally to start getting more done. His work on WhaleBot is well loved by many, not just MSP.
This along with some public tools that have helped me to clean-up and double-check the Blacklist like Ganymede tool by @inertia and a simple little tool made by someone (please let me know if you who made it) that allows you to see all the accounts that have a specific account muted. These both allowed me to check on the state of our Blacklist and make sure I didn't have names saved in my data that weren't actually blacklisted yet. (I found 4 accounts believed to be blocked, but weren't.)
In summary:
We now have some data to look at in regards to the efforts of the Anti-Abuse Team this past week. We are going to be looking for even more ways to streamline our process and make it easier for all of the Moderators to help with this initiative.
If you have any questions, please contact me on MSP or MSP-Probation
Thanks -
Discordiant
MSP Moderator and Anti-Abuse Team Leader
