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Threat Level - Blue

No new accounts found to be phishing. All known accounts flagged to 0 reputation or less.

BOLO: Chat scams! Just how many @elear's are there? Project creators are not going to ask you to send SBD/STEEM to an exchange to help support their projects. Neither are voting bot owners. Don't fall for the scam!

Spaminator

@quarry - Attack of the bots!!! It never ends! Just kidding. I added @quarry to my process for flagging spam. I figured it was an appropriate name to mark prey.

@spaminator downvotes are now calculated to remove payout to reserve VP for when it is needed. Today was one of those days. I used 30% VP to flag comments & posts.

New Hardware

When SBD hit $2 I cashed out a little early and took advantage of Black Friday to build a new PC to handle the workload I've been killing this poor desktop with.

i7-7800X
MSI X399 SLI Plus
32GB DDR 3200
500GB Samsung SSD

@shadow3scalpel

@shadow3scalpel has been reported several times for spam and even flagged by a member of @steemcleaners who didn't realize it is a service bot. It is also a 100% OPT IN bot. It never comments on posts where it hasn't been invited. I'm not sure why it is being reported.

Currently I have setup @zoee to follow @shadow3scalpel and upvote their comments. If my VP is above 80% I'll also follow with a 1 cent vote to support the veterans bot. Not all bots are spam!

@steemsugars

A new SteemFest idea - Please welcome SteemSugars!!! More Women on Steemit ;)

I want to thank @meanmommy33 for inviting me to join the @steemsugars team to support women and highlight their work on Steemit! I look forward to working with everyone!

Witness Voting

You can vote for my witness here.

Wittnesses I vote for and support:

@abit	@guiltyparties	@someguy123
@aggroed	@jesta	@steemgigs
@anyx	@lukestokes.mhth	@swelker101
@arcange	@neoxian	@teamsteem
@ausbitbank	@netuoso	@themarkymark
@chitty	@nnnarvaez	@timcliff
@drakos	@pfunk	@wackou
@fubar-bdhr	@reggaemuffin	@good-karma
@furion	@riverhead	@yehey
@gtg	@sircork	@followbtcnews

Image by @atopy

Current Projects: @steemcleaners 🙣 @spaminator 🙣 @steemsugars