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4 years ago

A few days ago we have discovered one more way some people are abusing the point system.

When we created the point system it seemed very hard for anyone to get 10 thumbs up:

So, we decided that if writing an article was 20 points then achieving 10 thumbs up should be at least 50 points and something like 40 points is really a super-worthy article, so at least 160 points more.

We did of course guess that some people would try to abuse it, but it seemed like it made no sense - creating 10, let alone 40 accounts to upvote yourself to get like a few cents?... Well, some people just have too much time on their hands to make it bad for everyone:

50 upvotes for.. an empty article. Who upvotes this?

Seem like normal, regular users we all know, right? No, of course, not.

But they can't be making that much points from it, right?

25% of daily points.

So, everyone's points is at least 25% cheaper due to this guy.

It's not hard to figure out who he is. As usual the question "who benefits" helps greatly here:

So, we of course, dealt with the situation promptly by banning the guy for massive cheating, but would it stop him?

We got to give it to him, he did give us all a fair warning 😄

Of course not. He's probably pissed that he spent the whole day clicking the buttons and got paid nothing, so he (or maybe them... maybe it's a whole team) probably are registering 50 more accounts...

How do we stop these attempts?

Well, we created a plan some time ago and were developing it quietly (as usual).

Please welcome....

The Power Users

The power users are just regular users that suddenly have super-powers. To get 40 points for 10 thumbs up at least one of these thumbs up must come from a power user. To get 160 points for 40 thumbs up - at least two of these should come from a power user.

Your post also won't make it to the home page unless one of the power user upvotes it.

To prevent abuse the power users don't know about their status

Well, I guess somebody could eventually figure out that he or she is a power user, but there are two things to note here:

1) this title isn't forever - if a power user stops doing right things - you lose it;

2) to further hide the fact that a user is a power user we have added a random delay between power users' action and the site's reaction to prevent experimentation.

We give a title of power user to people who are really putting in a lot of effort into being a good citizen on site. We won't disclose exact criteria, because people will start abusing this (though it's pretty hard to abuse, you need to put in a lot of effort).

Also, we can assure you that having a title of power user has nothing to do with being a Bitcoin Cash fan or speaking English or being there from the beginning of the site. Anyone can become a power user within a few days if she or he is doing the right things on read.cash.

Right now 211 of ~5000 users have this title.

For most of our users this shouldn't even be a problem. If your post gets 10 real upvotes - then for sure at least one of them will come from a power user - that's just how natural voting works. But it will hopefully be a big problem for scammers.

We have updated our point system accordingly:

As usual, it all sounds great on paper, but let's see how it works in reality.

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Good

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4 years ago

Right plz upvote me support me and share information like this thank u..

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4 years ago

Right say good article bro plz upvote me

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4 years ago

this is great. now im excited what will happened next. thanks a lot for this update

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4 years ago

Thanks dear plz subscribe me support me

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4 years ago

Thank you dear. plese support me

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4 years ago

How many points we earn?

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4 years ago

But can you make it more clear how anyone can become a power user ?

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4 years ago

Very relevant article i was searching for this !!

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4 years ago

Not increase my point. Why isn't my point increasing?

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4 years ago

How about someone UpVote you $1 how many points accumulated or we gain for that?

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4 years ago

That's a really good strategy. But I have a question, or maybe two. How many times do we need to post daily? And how come the power user find our content if is not pushed to home page? Doing conversational commenting on other posts also gives points?

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4 years ago

why my points and $are not increasing please reply me!!!

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4 years ago

If we bother to write articles and do not get points, then it is very sad news for us.If I don't get points in the comments, then there is no point in writing our article.We are using our important time for the site but for some unscrupulous person we have to face the problem it is not a solution.Please do something about it asap!

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4 years ago

yes brother, I agreed to your thoughts and suggestions. for some unscrupulous person we are facing this problem. pleasedo something otherwise most of the person who write their own content & earn polity they will get demotivated to work here.

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4 years ago

Very informative articles. Thanks dear 💝

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4 years ago

Now I know thanks for this article😊 now I got some idea how to earn points and where come from. Actually I create article but sometimes I didn't get points from my article but now I understand what happen to my points & to my article. Actually this is not easy money to earn free bitcoin cash , you need a lot of effort and patience to earn free money. But for me read.cash its a nice way to earn money & very easy to understand and to use their platform and you can get more ideas if you explore read.cash and apply that ideas to your selves to be a successful person. Keep it up & More power to read.cash team😉

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4 years ago

Seriously, this isnt easy oh for 3 days no points no reward. It is really frustrating

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4 years ago

Thanks A lot @read.cash to prevent us from such useless follows or spammers who spoil this legit and skilful platform.Hope so now we get our own points not by luck or not by cheat.I’m also happy when I saw that @read.cash banned the copyright users because they posts 10-20+ articles a day and its very difficult for us to check our notifications because some of good writers notification of articles hide due to such users .Thanks for your timely action

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4 years ago

So much intelligent .but only for the scammers we have to suffer.if i get an upvote from a power user i would be lucky enough.by the way thanks for the valuable information.

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4 years ago

loud and clear about points,most often and many have no idea why they have no points even they stay on readcash for an hour,posting article and so on..this article explain well..thank you for this..the only thing we don't know who is the power user.

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4 years ago

Do you know any power user???

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4 years ago

no way to know them..maybe today you are a power user..who knows and maybe i am .. read cash only know who is the power user for today

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4 years ago

Now that i just found this post everything make sense. Now back to being a real author.

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4 years ago

No more points from last 7days...! It's still zero. I also didn’t get any penalty. This problem is also happening with lots of users.. I also mailed hello@read.cash. But they didn’t response me. I am still doing my job by maintaining @read.cash rules.But there is no result..!

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4 years ago

But please make it's sense for the hard working writers here. Why do we don't have points? Because a power user doesn't upvote our work even though we published a numbers of article? Still, thank you for this at least we are informed but it's not good to have nothing if we know to ourselves that we are hard working. Thank you

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4 years ago

Please I mistakenly upvoted this post with 1 $ it was by mistake could you return in back Please 😭😭

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4 years ago

another one who went to a lot of trouble ... for nothing ! nice investigation

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4 years ago

now i know . tomorrow i will write an artivcles that is unique

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4 years ago

it's for the best I guess. I'm earning small points but it's okay as long as it is not freeze. thanks read cash.

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4 years ago

I can't even earn decent points now im posting a lot im being active now and yeah i earn nothing im not earning my deserved points my points is still zero what ever i do this is really sad

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4 years ago

Quite an infotmation and reward system for generous users and those who provide value to the platform. I am stll learning quite a fair bit do's and don'ts and I'm sure this article will help me in a great deal..

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4 years ago

Seriously i am not getting points anymore

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4 years ago

Upvote any post.

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4 years ago

Actually i dont know why my points stop. Why i am not getting points ?

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4 years ago

You have to upvote post

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4 years ago

Dennis23, whoever that guy was, you really need to give him a salute, selfish still though.

However, I never knew so much about Power Users, now I do. Maybe I'm a power user right now 🤔 ... who knows? nobody, not even me. I like this system

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4 years ago

Oh i think this is the right way to do great information to know because my points stops

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4 years ago

@cristy dear, anyone can be a power user, read this 😘

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4 years ago

This does look like a sound strategy. However this is not a complete strategy. Since I have some experience in game theory, I can assure you that this will not stop the spammers. You need to create an environment where quality contributors are rewarded and legit users are powered up.

This will solve the issue automatically. Hence, a tiered approach to the power user system would benefit this platform. Send a reply if you want more information or want me on board with the implementation.

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4 years ago

Wonderful ❣️ so good people would not be able to know this. To avoid abuse, I love the concept

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4 years ago

I like to know that this site is well protected from any abuse. Potato likes it

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4 years ago

there are people kind of cheating this time

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4 years ago

Okay, thanks for the info😊

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4 years ago

Nice one, clear enough.. Thanks for the clarification

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4 years ago

Nice update 👍 This will eradicate scammer and reduce their activities on the platform

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4 years ago

What is a power user? What will cost if I upvote anyone's post? I mean if I upvote any post how much $ I have to pay?

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4 years ago

Nothing. Why would you pay anything?

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4 years ago

Because I wanna motivate real worker for there original content and so they continue their writing.

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4 years ago

You can tip any amount you like. People appreciate even very small tips. Just click the button that says [$0.00] anywhere.

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4 years ago

Thanks.

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4 years ago

or at least $0.05 so that the writers got the chance to earn the +0.05 points.

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4 years ago

And how I become a power user?

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4 years ago

It's a secret. If we were to tell it - people will start abusing it.

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4 years ago

Can I have it on my email?

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4 years ago

No, that's the point. Nobody must know how to become a power user, otherwise spammers would do exactly that. Being a power user gives you no privileges. It's only a mark for us for whom to listen to carefully.

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4 years ago

Okey. Thanks for updating security.

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4 years ago

I agree with that. I also do not want to know if I am a power user because it will be stressful to know that we are carrying big responsibilities. it's better not to know but doing it properly rather than knowing and might be doing it recklessly.

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4 years ago

This is a great feature to have. Awesome work!

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4 years ago

By the way this update is very good and smart. Scammers will reduce by it

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4 years ago

Thanks!

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4 years ago

Please keep posting these overviews on dealing with spam. It's really interesting to read. Well not just spam mitigation but development, too.

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4 years ago

Actually hiding the Power Users is a good opinion and to those who might want to know them you got to study things critically to know who they are.. Work harder to become one

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4 years ago

The cat and mouse game continues, but only in this way can read.cash get better and better. This is certainly not the last update, the scammers are creative, but with time it gets more and more complex and no longer attractive. You are on the right track. The website will be the best, I'm convinced of that and I'm happy to being part of it almost from the beginning.

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4 years ago

Another nice mover to develop a quality site and reward system. Yes keep the key drivers away from the riff raf.

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4 years ago

I don't want to say good words. but you know how to find solutions, compared to other platform's admins and guardians. This is what I liked most:

To prevent abuse the power users don't know about their status

Very well done! Cheers!

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4 years ago

That's indeed a nice idea. Question So, is that the only way of gaining points? I mean the rest of us that aren't power users, how else would we earn points?

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4 years ago

This is freaking cool. It's like having some superpowers which you don't know about

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4 years ago

So silly to do such manipulation..

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4 years ago

This is indeed a step in the right direction but I can only imagine the difficulty that scammers will experience. Read.cash is a home to quality articles and I hope such measures will continue to be beneficial to the community as a whole

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4 years ago

Good improvements, but i think people will use this as advantage to have money

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4 years ago

First comment thank u for this ,I made I mistakes too in the past but I realized that is wrong and now I keep doing the right things and learn from my mistakes.

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4 years ago

Well, so far this is very good. It will give a fairness to the legit creators who are not violating the rules of the platform. And the Power User status is very good. Because if they knew that one user is a Power User, they will abuse it. Thank you for this update.

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4 years ago

Wow Readcash you never seems to amaze me. Thanks for this,it really a great one.

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4 years ago

This seems like a really good innovation... At least it would greatly help reduce spammers... Well planned out strategy... I don't get why these people are just been on hindering the growth of this platform. Imagine someone creating so many accounts just to like his own. That's doesn't sound sane. Well, I believe in you guyz and I know you would always be there to keep this platform reliable for we the good users. Thumbs up to you guyz. Hope you guys earn from my thumbs up😉

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4 years ago

The Read.Cash plan is to spread awareness of Bitcoin Cash, after all. Posts are a very nice way to do so. However, when you take it that way, people can just farm them points, which is why Read.Cash added communities to places where you can only get points.

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4 years ago

I've been waiting for this 👏👏 Thank you so much read.cash team. And I know the team is also doing something about those who spam the comments and abusing the article writing. Thank you.

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4 years ago

Comment spam is really hard, because other than obvious things like copying the text - what can we do about it? So, the guy says "Thank you for the information" - should we ban him for that? Or he posts with lots of typos? Maybe he's poor and not well-educated - it's not like we should ban people for being poor. So, "comment spam" is really-really hard to define.

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4 years ago

I know read.cash team is doing its best. Thank you so much.

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4 years ago

don't give any points for comments 👍only thumbs up comments gets points

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4 years ago

allow the authors to set a price for making a comment

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4 years ago

I explained this many-many times - we won't be doing this.

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4 years ago

how do i find the explanation please?

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4 years ago

1) There's already memo.cash that follows that path - it doesn't make sense to try to repeat that. 2) Our main goal is to get massive adoption of Bitcoin Cash, that means we need to give away as much Bitcoin Cash as possible. How would we do that if in order to participate you need to have Bitcoin Cash? 3) There are very-very-very few Bitcoin Cash holders, you can read this article to find out how I estimate there to be just 1000 active Bitcoin Cash users. That will be the upper limit of the site. If you read the article you'll understand why it doesn't make sense at this point in time to ask people to spend Bitcoin Cash. People just don't have it.

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4 years ago

im not saying all the comments should be paid

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4 years ago

This is becoming more interesting wow. Good work read.cash. keep up with the upgrades and updates

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4 years ago

I wonder who are they, Wish that they been a good citizen for real 🥰 thanks for this updates!

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4 years ago

Very well done, Team Read.cash my suggestion is that. Truly it'd be hard for a regular user to post articles that get through every member of read.cash. do you mind adding a follow button which will enable every follower of an author to see each others posts without it being one-sided like the subscribe button. Thank you. And you are really doing a great job. Read.cash, though my writings may seem lame but I'm beginning to grow interest in writing.

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4 years ago

but I'm beginning to grow interest in writing.

That's great!

I don't understand your idea about the "follow" button - can you provide an example how it would work?

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4 years ago

For instance, when your article seems nice to me, I follow you(it's like sending a friend request) after you accept, the request. Every I get notified of your new articles and you of my articles as well. Hope you got my point sir?

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4 years ago

Yes, but this will lead to massive spam of users. I mean people will be sitting whole day clicking this "send a message to this user" button. It's already happening with article submission to communities and we're going to stop sending these notifications, because people are complaining.

If your content is interesting - it will find a way eventually. Reply to other people's comments, so that people notice you.

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4 years ago

Now I understand. Keep the great work up. May Allah ease your affairs, Amin.

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4 years ago

@read.cash you are working very hard to deliver what the community really appreciate, I like the way the platform have been solving spam and gamification problems and surely the measures are quite cool compared to other platforms😎

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4 years ago

Thank you for the update @read.cash I just published about the rules that keep their mind when using your site. I hope that many notice and read so that they become aware specially the new user of your site.

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4 years ago

Just very impressive like yesterday's update. This plan looks great on paper as you said. But it needs time so we can tell how it's going to work in real. I guess those new rules will be hard to break, yet you never what people can do do to abuse the system.

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4 years ago

Scammer is everywhere. Happy to know that there are people protecting read.cash community from these people. I am happy that i came across this site.

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4 years ago

Man it was about time. Yesterday 70 percent of my homepage was full of this guys one line articles 😂. Keep up the good work @Read.Cash

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4 years ago

Sometimes it was zero lines :) But, yeah, that was annoying.

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4 years ago

@readcash he come from my REFFERal but I don't remember who the person is I have 100+ refferals already and I can't remember them one by one , I keep posting on Facebook everyday , I told them to WRIGHT good ARTICLEs and do not copy from the internet, I also upload a video o youtube on how to use readcash,6days ago, and still they did not listen and do what they want in order to make easy money, but he did not know what karma is .

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4 years ago

Don't worry about it, bad people appear randomly.

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4 years ago

The problem is many you gave a hand are committing plagiarism. How come you don't notice that? You do not read and comment before you add an article? It doesn't do your name good @jaymark. I think we should check the communities again, posts added and kick out those who do not deserve it and report them. 💕

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4 years ago

Good idea and another excellent step move.

Thank you

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4 years ago

Breathtaking In every crisis there's an opportunity 😂 The more people try to take advantage the more read cash adapts and gets updated People should just try to be real and stop cheating 😓 Everyone needs money, yea but must it be through crooked ways?

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4 years ago

Wow. This is really cool. And exciting too. It's quite a mystery on our part but I have big faith with the @read.cash team. I know that you sre doing this for the longevity of the site. Thanks for looking after the good citizens of this site.

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4 years ago

well i think this site is good for earning just a little for extra income, well if your good enough for writing then maybe we can earn better for a good profit

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4 years ago

Hi. I just want to ask something. I have this article titled "An open letter for spammers" and it is marked exclusive. Robot thinks it was first published on readcash. What does it mean? Is it a negative mark? Thank you.

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4 years ago

No, it's a very positive mark. You might find same mark on other platforms marked as "Original Content". However we don't use that term, because sometimes people are owners of the original content they publish to multiple platforms. So if we can't find this text on the Internet - we mark it as "Exclusive".

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4 years ago

Hi. I have another question. Is it possible for someone to earn 0.17 BCH here in just one day? I just saw it somewhere. And I'm amazed.

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4 years ago

From the fund currently - no. The fund gives out about $70/day right now - that is divided to a few hundreds active users. Yesterday top 3 users got $2.90, $2.30 and $1.83 respectively.

But this article got $10,000 in about a few seconds :) https://read.cash/@freetrader/bitcoin-cash-node-003b2381

But such tips are of course rare. It's more an exception where you do something so big for Bitcoin Cash ecosystem that people are willingly donate big amounts.

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4 years ago

I see. Thank you for the response. Maybe what I saw was edited.

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4 years ago

Wow. Thank you so much for the response.

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4 years ago

Haha what a scammer he is . He migjt be sime kins of pro. Btw this is a great step from read. Cash

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4 years ago

See this is what I meant when I said earlier that it's probably not a good idea to be 100% transparent. To fight some sort of spam, you will have to do some of the spam fighting in a not so transparent way. I like what's being done here. One question is, would power users gain any extra points for being good samaritans?

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4 years ago

They don't need to be good samaritans. They just do whatever they do. It's only a technical mark which shows us whom to listen to. Since they do what's right - they already are be getting a lot of benefits from the fund and tips, etc....

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4 years ago

Ok, that makes sense.

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4 years ago

I doubt you will be seen as a good Samaritan if you reject, leave a comment why. You are more likely scolded at, your content will receive thumb downs and if this is done by the same person(s) who gave the thumbs up it won't be much fun being here.

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4 years ago

I don't understand what you're trying to say.

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4 years ago

I wish to become a power user soon. I'll do my best and keep posting original content like I've been posting before now

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4 years ago

You should read the article :) you won't know it if you become a power user

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4 years ago

Interesting strategy. It could actually work. It's also a good idea to keep secret who is a power user and exactly how you select them. It's a pity that people are so dishonest that so much energy, time and creativity must be spent on cheating the cheaters - but unfortunately that's how the world is.

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4 years ago

This. We'd much rather work on stuff like improving our editor or notifications or overall experience or sponsorships... improving something, rather than playing cat-and-mouse with people trying to earn a few cents more.

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4 years ago

Yes that's what I mean. It is better if creativity, energy, time and other resources can be used to something positive. This cat-and-mouse game is somehow a meaningless waste of these resources. From both sides.

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4 years ago

At least we know now people manage to do it. We already knew the few cents count. Altogether, with 40 accounts or more, we are no longer talking about a few cents.

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4 years ago

That's true.

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4 years ago

"This is another plus to the achievement of read.cash in getting rid of spamming. The game has just begun, we are separating the wheat from the chaff". Bravo to read.cash!

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4 years ago

todo lo que se haga para mejorar la plataforma es bueno,hay que aplaudir la nueva iniciativa,los que perseveran y asumen los nuevos retos, se llevarán la recompensa.

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4 years ago

This is a great idea but the part of being a power user is a bit scary. It has a big role with great responsibilities along with it. Good ideas to let it stay as long as the power user are doing the right things but how will you monitor? Just curious.

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4 years ago

To be honest I find it a bit difficult to understand what you thought out to fight this. I do understand some are very inventive if it comes to earning. I doubt they do the thumb ups by hand. It reminds me of something years ago. Is it possible to make a tool to do this automatically?

If it comes to it people do the priests things for a few cents but all those cents together. To scammers it is an income and they proved it is possible.

I hope you can solve the problem and people really stop with this. Why not write yourself? Searching the web for something, copy and paste can take a lot of time too. 💕

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4 years ago

I am speechless at the length people would do to game the system.

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4 years ago

5044 points, this man is good in farming.

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4 years ago

So, it went from simple points system, to a personalized point system, to a community-based point system, and now it's still community-based, but some of the members now have the secret power of boosting a topic.

Someone really needs to send more funds to donate to Read.Cash here guys.

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4 years ago

It's the first ever solution against abusing the referral earnings. It is only found here in read.cash certified EXC!!! Good job...

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4 years ago

Well good for the improvements, I will start to give a few thumbs up, I will choose well, perhaps I am one of the advanced users, haha and I will be glad that someone is rewarded a little more for his efforts as a writer.

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4 years ago

Read.cash you guys are super innovative, nipping the scammer to the board and creating a powerful system to curb fake upvote on fake users articles. Kudos

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4 years ago

Do you mean from a single article or from all my article, am talking about the thumb up.

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4 years ago

The cat and mouse game continues, but only in this way can read.cash get better and better. This is certainly not the last update, the scammers are creative, but with time it gets more and more complex and no longer attractive. You are on the right track. The website will be the best, I'm convinced of that and I'm happy to being part of it almost from the beginning.

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4 years ago

I really appreciate the fact of hitting the comment right at my point I was going to make .. @Telesfor you are the man of the moment

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4 years ago