(5.1) The scope is fluid and gets revised regularly. The current scope rests on cases of farming or spam for the detrimental purposes of reward pool extraction and other malicious ends.
- faucet (free Steemit-issued account) abuse/multi-account rings
- comment farming
- comment spam
- post farming
- 'botnets'/automated account clusters
- follow up of hacker/phishing accounts
The scope changes based on the current needs of the STEEM ecosystem. To see an example of change in progress, please see this post regarding community input.