I've enjoyed reading the introduction posts for 2 weeks now, and will continue to do so cause I feel its better for new legit users to get a warm welcome with votes and comments instead of just comment bots and no votes which may discourage them from being active. Although I agree that the posts some times got too many votes and value, I encourage young minnows like myself to also welcome them.

But like you said most of the value shouldn't go to those posts, and this will also remove the need for fakers to continue spamming that tag.

Anyway, great response time by the team! (the thread about the identity theft was created just yesterday) Glad to be a part of this all!

Thank you !

wellcome

The persons who have lied should be sanctioned, blocking his accounts "fake" and his principal account , and the respective loss of benefit in the above mentioned accounts. 

A few terms should be added to agree in the register,  included that the deception is a motive of definitive expulsion of the page and loss of the existing quantity in the account. 

Other ways of check can be implanted, for example registering the mobile,  the person who wants to be deceptive will need a mobile for account and though he will not avoid the deception it can diminish it. 

It might allow the only account for IP, if some person uses two accounts in the same IP it will have to ask for permission to the staff and to check to the users extra that to use happiness IP, of the way that the staff indicates them. 

Also the check for ID card as it is done in the pages of exchange of coins or virtual portfolios, let's not forget that here we are working with money and in any occasions of a considerable value.

 I hate the liars. 

Regards.

To think that I was working up my guts to do my own #introduceyourself telling everyone about me and this burst my bubble a bit :)

I agree with @dan's point and I don't:
- I agree that short term it will stop the catfishes from conning us through fake introductions.
- I disagree, because stopping to vote for posts in the #introduceyourself or any other tag for that matter is not a healthy, long term solution. Community effort, attitude and action is the appropriate solution aiming for long term results. It's very simple: **If we can't clearly tell who they are by the information in the post, we don't vote.** They are discouraged and stop posting. Fiction introduction of yourself is a lie because you're not introducing yourself and should not be allowed.

It's just like with bots. If they clearly say they're a bot and have performed x or y action because they are programmed that way, I'm good. If the bot pretends to be human and congratulates me for my *awesome* post that he didn't even bother to scan...well, I'm not ok and i don't appreciate *the illusion*, thank you.

@dan: None of what I mentioned above means that I don't respect your opinion, or that I don't respect the unimaginable volume of work and sacrifice you've been through to get this baby (Steemit) born and gift it to the world. For this I will be forever in your debt and forever grateful. Keep up the amazing work!

Thanks for the response to this. However, I would also like to point out that many of the identity thieves I have caught are actually plagiarizing introductory posts off peoples blogs -- they are not writing "pure fiction" as you say; they are actually copy-paste stealing the thoughts of real people.

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https://steemit.com/humor/@apes/the-whale-in-my-swimming-pool

Actually, these are good points. #Steemit is new territory for many reasons, and this is the learning curve. It's going to cost some people some time, effort and heartache figuring it out.

There aren't any rules in the Wild West of #tech, so use these things as lessons and build from the #knowledge. That's how we create #culture, right?

Thanks For Explaining the situation . I really hate that people are pretending to be other people for upvotes , I saw a post where the person said he was Mark Zuckerberg! , People are getting more greedy by the minute

I am really loving the value based system here on Steem. I'm celebrating 5 days now and it amazes me how a community polices itself so well. Thank you for the post @dan

I have noticed several days ago that people  stop upvoting  #introduceyourself by themselves. Bot-robots are much more important - they should be more intelligent and fast. Cheetah-bot is great.

Good post dan appreciate the response to that thread. I agree while its good to see people introducing themselves ultimately we need stay aware that people arent always who they say they are and that these people are playing into the fantasy of others.

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Agreed. I have made that argument that fiction entertains and even as fiction it has value. But introduceyourself seems silly as a venue to generate a high amount. Thanks for this post

Some folks be like
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https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/07/25/22june2016b69b6.jpg

Sounds legit..
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Valid point. I would like to see articles that comes after their introduce yourself. It makes everybody introduce yourself more fair game knowing everybody in the same seat from now on and a way to verified if your account does get hack.

My brother and I just had this same conversation.  Is it the reality of the post that makes it meaningful, or the mental trip (emotions etc) it puts you through?  I think it is a bit of both for me personally, but I hope this doesn't start turning Steemit into a witch-hunt platform.  Downvote the fakes and trolls, but lets try and not accidentally spread this to innocent users.

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Hi @Dan, Yesterday I exposed  a conartist that made about $1000 with fraudulent posts: namely @ricegum here is my post detailing the exposure:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@earnest/community-curation-and-exposing-conartists-in-steemit-the-case-of-ricegum

Also, on that same note, today I found a fraudulent post that @dantheman upvoted to the tune of $1600
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@jesika/i-was-raped-on-my-wedding-night

Again, same pattern. Here is the source (@benslayton found it):
https://www.quora.com/How-does-it-feel-to-have-sex-with-your-spouse-on-your-wedding-night-when-he-she-is-a-stranger

Story modified here and there to be bot-detection proof.

Let me know if you value my work. Thanks.