The Points in Stats

Let's talk about why these spammers take too much of our points. If I spot you "subscribe for subscriber", you're marked as spam then blocked immediately.

During the early days of Read.Cash, the daily spending limit wasn't there, and the fund was a mere $10,000+. Spamming was very rampant, causing radical changes in average points per user. I had received the same points as them, but with the spammers around and people posting daily, it was hard to follow. When the points system was replaced with the random rewarder system, spam was gone overnight, and anti-spam defenses were created more.

Here are all the changes since the simple distribution fund and points system:

• Removal of the OC tag

  • This article explained the outcry after Bitcoin.com and a few BCHers' articles that were from their own blogs were marked as non-OC/Syndicated.

• Block via Comments

  • Spam is getting apparent during this stage, similar to our "Move to Spam" update.

• Personalized payouts

  • Spam no longer has the same points to money count.

• Removal of forums (a very spammable place)

  • The forums were very spammable, having the same points given by having comments (4)

• Points are Given to Communities

  • This brought the rise of Upvoting Groups, and people will place nonsense articles to lots of communities.

• Addition of short posts

• Addition of OC Detector in Communities

  • This one is good for a while, limiting spam.

• The power users

  • These power users don't even know they are power users, but when they like an article, its user will be rewarded points.

• Anti-duplicate measures

  • Some users were reported to duplicate articles.

• Banning of Upvote Groups from Points System

  • Being liked gives someone 0.2 points, and with power users, some will get more of it.

• The Draft Saving

  • A lot of us have been asking for it. Helped quality.

• The Random Rewarder Implementation

  • This event marked the point that articles no longer had points based on static implementation, keeping into communities.

• Removal of Featured Community

  • A long experiment, where all points were only being given through featured communities. It didn't last. The featured communities were full of spam despite a "one-topic" rule.

• Hiding Not Wanted Articles

  • That no button to the right of every community can actually disallow said community to appear.

• The Fund Spending Limit

  • The last articled change, creating the limit.

• Server Upgrade

  • The site's been down a few times last June.

Then @micropresident created his meme competition and made @Read.Cash react negatively, causing lots of namecalling memes out, and the site's userbase was almost banned before he banned himself after Reddit investigation.

Let's make this part short.

@Read.Cash is still updating the site. Your actions will be seen, and they will try to make sure that spams will be as few as possible. Your days are marked, and you newbies won't get as much money as you wanted, because this *isn't* about the money.

We will be watching you.