Over the past 2 to 3 weeks, we’ve taken several aggressive steps as part of our ongoing cleanup initiative. Our goal is simple: bring back a more focused SWAPD with fewer spammers, scammers, and bad actors.
Some of the measures we’ve implemented include:
- Blocking access from certain high risk regions, including a full block on Nigeria.
- Significantly restricting access from China to combat large scale bot activity.
- Increasing new user moderation by 100%.
- Manually reviewing and approving every new member.
- Cross checking VPN usage, account history, and other risk indicators before granting access.
The result?
Traffic and signups are down approximately 15 to 20%.
And that’s exactly what we expected.
More importantly, we’re already seeing measurable improvements:
- Fewer alerts from our private message monitoring systems.
- Fewer attempts to move users to Telegram and other off platform channels.
- Fewer “I can help you with that” messages from accounts that registered 0.0001 seconds ago and somehow claim to be world class experts in absolutely everything.
These are small but important steps.
We’re willing to sacrifice volume in exchange for quality, trust, and a safer marketplace experience.
This is only the beginning.
Our next focus will be sellers who misrepresent their success rates, exaggerate results, or make claims they cannot substantiate. That problem has been growing for far too long, and we’ll be addressing it in the coming weeks.
Less noise. More trust. Better business.
More updates soon.
I agree a smaller community with higher trust is far more valuable than inflated signup numbers
