I've applied more changes and additions to the Blazot Community Signals risk-level system over the past few nights. It now has additional signals factored in to try to make it more accurate, but it's still a work in progress. These are intended to be a warning, not necessarily a decision. However, the higher the warning-level, the more likely it's a true risk. As it is further developed, it'll improve in accuracy. The goal is to keep Blazot from turning into a cesspool of fake, scammer, or bot accounts like so many other platforms have right now and to keep it as safe as possible for legit users on this platform. The hope is this will create so much friction for those accounts that they won't waste their time using this platform and instead go to those who aren't making such an effort to identify them and warn users (which is practically everyone else).

As I mentioned before, there are things you can do to prevent triggering warnings from a high enough risk score. One of the main ways is NOT to use cheap or free VPNs on Blazot, or add Blazot to the exclusions list to prevent the VPN from being active when using Blazot. These VPNs are heavily used by scammers and bots, so it will likely trigger a higher risk score. Another BIG reason why you shouldn't use the cheap or free VPNs is for your own security. You may be trying to be safer, but you're trusting them with all kinds of data, and you could be putting yourself at risk. How do you think they're making money? They are likely harvesting your data and selling it, or potentially worse. Since all your traffic is flowing through them, they would have the power to redirect you to a fake website that looks totally real (same domain name and everything) and steal your passwords. If you must use a VPN, I recommend using higher quality ones. I haven't used these, so I can't guarantee how good they are, but ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and ProtonVPN seem to have high ratings and therefore don't result in a higher-level risk warning at this time.

Another thing you could optionally do is sign up for a Blazot subscription. This lowers the risk score some, since it's far less likely a scammer, fake, or bot account would pay the subscription.

More features are coming in the near future, which will allow Blazot subscribers to either report fraud type accounts to increase their risk score or even vouch for accounts to lower their risk score. This is where the "Community" part of the Blazot Community Signals will come in. The reason it'll apply to subscribers is to reduce the likelihood of users trying to abuse the system.

These features will also be pushed to the mobile apps soon. I've been waiting to get it fine-tuned a little first but expect mobile app updates to go out very soon.