Hey so we've all been seeing a lot of it recently, but I haven't seen a lot of talk about it / reform. The like scamming tracks. There's been a lot of them.
It all started with that one track by
https://www.freeriderhd.com/u/designer01 saying he'd give away $100,000 to one of the people who liked, commented, and subscribed. The track got around a staggering 1,000 likes before finally getting removed, but it dominated the trending page for a solid week by then. He had 0 subs a few weeks ago, and now he has 615.
Even people who create featured tracks don't get that many likes / subs. Kinda unfair, right? He not only scammed the community, but scammed in more subscribers and likes as well. I know for a fact that it wasn't a satire of these kinds of tracks because it's the one that started the whole thing, therefore making it a pretty sad manipulation of players.
I think the community has become a bit more aware of this kind of scammery, but we're obviously not able to figure out that these are fake on our own because it happens just about every month. Last month it was "my mom died and if I don't get likes on this track I'll feel terrible." This month it's "$7,000 giveaway read description."
This is where my question comes in. When we see one of these tracks dominating trending and pushing less deserving authors off the list, what should we do to get it taken down / evaluated as soon as possible? As far as I'm aware, what we're doing right now isn't working, because sub scamming is still alive and well, and it takes over a week to remove the real scam tracks.
Can we do something about this? Make a page to send in links to scam tracks? Something? Because leaving the tracks up there for a week helps nobody. If anything I think it deters smart members from wanting to play when the first track they see when they enter the site is a giveaway track, not a well drawn masterpiece.
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