Spammers on Steepster
https://steepster.com/soul-ecstasy
Too old; copy-pasting text from here: https://mytastycurry.com/india-loves-chai-a-special-photo-feature-on-instagram to advertise their spa.
https://steepster.com/alvamabel2018 trying to trick people by copy-pasting old threads to get posters and then editing it into spam-advertisements
https://steepster.com/CristinaMathis
https://steepster.com/JulieJasmine
https://steepster.com/NancyStewart
All decided to post at once; wonderful.
I noticed a new tea from Chai and Mighty is rated as the best tea on the site and looked into it. Of all the reviews (only 5), most are from users who have only ever rated Chai and Mighty brand teas and rated them all highly.
Tea in question: https://steepster.com/teas/chai-and-mighty/78802-the-bombay-masala
I’m pretty sure the accounts are paid users or Chai and Mighty themselves.
Yeah, I sent Jason a list of another company I suspected of boosting with fake accounts… This is definitely suspicious too.
Any tea that has five reviews, all “100” is suspicious. As I am now a seller as well as a drinker I don’t give anything I am selling a numerical rating. Even if I really think it deserves a “100” I give it none.
I’ve noticed they are still there. Will these accounts be taken down, or is there anything we can do to make sure the top rated teas are fairly assessed? Maybe a minimum number of reviews (about 10 or so)?
I took another pass and cleared out some others that I considered to be spam, that seems to have helped the issue. The others don’t currently have any evidence of being spam or obviously gaming the system.
Overall, I do believe there are improvements we can make to the rating system to help with the situation, we just haven’t been able to do that for some time.
A spam bot conveniently started following every other spam bot with a similar name to its own, which basically just rooted its brothers out:
https://steepster.com/zeesawater
https://steepster.com/waterresources
https://steepster.com/WaterBay
https://steepster.com/williamchamlee
https://steepster.com/enviroxwater01
https://steepster.com/lilygirl85
https://steepster.com/geneliapeterson
https://steepster.com/crystawaston332
https://steepster.com/naturallyalkalinewater
https://steepster.com/pruittwater
https://steepster.com/premier-water-system
https://steepster.com/colloidalsilverwater
https://steepster.com/kangenwaters1
https://steepster.com/designerwater
https://steepster.com/waterbased
https://steepster.com/SmarterWater
https://steepster.com/PrestigeWater
https://steepster.com/bvi-water-toys
https://steepster.com/watchwater
https://steepster.com/calm-waters
https://steepster.com/water-for-life
https://steepster.com/water-resorts-in-hyderabad
https://steepster.com/puratea-water
https://steepster.com/deltawaters
https://steepster.com/nervous-waters
https://steepster.com/waterchemicals
The bot in question, although they were new enough to remove: https://steepster.com/crystawaston332
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