Spammers on Steepster

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Dr Jim said

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AJ said

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mrmopar said

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AJ said

https://steepster.com/alvamabel2018 trying to trick people by copy-pasting old threads to get posters and then editing it into spam-advertisements

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Arby said

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.

AJ said

Yeah, I sent Jason a list of another company I suspected of boosting with fake accounts… This is definitely suspicious too.

AllanK said

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.

Jason select said

Thanks for the heads up!

Arby said

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)?

Jason select said

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.

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Sil select said

https://steepster.com/aishabesson – too old commented on one of my posts

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