if u are a realy good person than now u remove flag on my this post and upvote this otherwise i think same u are just...........................
steemit87 And khanfd4 these are not my account i have just these 5 accounts @mindsmania @farhanrajpoot129 @hotandwet @pornhub1 @aarecipes
There are a lot of copy paste accounts out there, may it be copied from another website or steem user, that should be flagged. But unfortunately like you say it's first costly and most likely causing a personal flag war on top of it.
Minnows are scared of it due to those points, especially whenever it comes to abuse through whales. With great power comes great responsibility and I hope that at least some more whales will take their important role seriously on the steem blockchain.
@themarkymark Good catch! The platform is becoming big and saturated. Difficult to police. Maybe the devs can do something about this. Unfair to those decent people who are trying hard to post.Opportunistic people should not thrive on this platform.
It does. To truly make it anywhere on Steemit requires either an investment of money or an investment in quality content and lots of time. Even if spammers weren't flagged, they still would only individually get a small portion of the reward pool because self voting isn't as profitable as you think. In my opinion, there are much worse problems involving bot-net spammers; something that is much more sophisticated than your generic sit-and-post-10-times-a-day-spammer. Flagging is apparently not the answer for this type of spam. I wonder if flagging is effective at all.
You bring up good points, and ones I've been wondering, too. I've looked to see if someone actually looked into this and posted their results, but so far, I haven't found anything. I need to learn more about how to query the blockchain for more than just account names I already know.
At any rate, if it's annoying clutter but unprofitable for the spammers, then while it makes Steemit look bad and potentially less attractive perhaps, the rewardpool is relatively unabused. If it is taking a significant toll, then there needs to be an efficient way to combat it. Flagging, education, what have you.
Kind of sounds cavalier and all about the money, doesn't it? I really don't intend it that way. I do care about quality content.
I hate personally expending resources (which I don't have so I haven't attempted any flagging yet), or see others who do have resources expending so much, especially if it is either a losing battle or a an unseemly but low profit wasteland.
I think we all need to know that, and then maybe adjust strategies accordingly.
I agree! I was trying to read posts under the tag news the other day. One post I read, thought it well written, was about to upvote and comment when I realized it was just a copy/paste from a real news article. Then there are bots now that generate news posts? WTH? I won’t be looking in that tag again.
Not sure how I feel about that, but it's an interesting idea. I heard others say every transaction should cost money, for example sending memos (to stop memo spam) but that's a core feature of Steem is the lack of transaction fees.
Once it is 10 cents, it will slowly grow like Bitcoin fees have. Once the door is open, it will just become larger and larger.
Keeping the cost of entry free so all can participate vs. requiring some skin in the game. I can see the merits of both.
No fee to enter allows everyone in, spreading Steem and Steemit faster and to all parts of the world. Skin in the game might make people more thoughtful about what they post, but inevitably, as you say, it will go up and eventually make it too cost prohibitive, if not go all the way to the point where only those with lots of money can pay to play.
It's a dilemma, and it's really at the heart of not only the spam/plagiarism situation, but the debate over the 'proper distribution' of rewards. Having free entry makes the reward pool seem like monopoly money to a lot of people—even to those who should know better—and it's hard not to think of it like that when you haven't done something to acquire it.
I wish I had the answers. There's so much I feel I need to know. But at risk of overstating the obvious, this issue is only going to get worse when Velocity arrives.
Yeahhh if we could avoid becoming yet another miner-dominated coin that'd be greattt. Steemit already kind of requires at least an initial start-up cost for blog posts to get any visibility. Posting fees would kill the traction steemit has had in developing markets. I think steemit could be a good chance to help raise them up, we shouldn't try too hard to squish them before they've even gotten a chance to compete on an equal level. I know I for one would have difficulty in communicating in any of their native languages.
A tx fee sounds good to me too, the fees could be added to the reward pool. If you can't afford 10 cents to post your stuff into eternal blockchain, then I am not interested in your content - my 2 cents.
Thanks for your efforts, I’m still learning about these spam and powerful garbage post problems, but I’m down to help out any way that I can. It sounds like some of these issues could destroy the site if left ignored. I guess I don’t understand why changes haven’t already been made to the system and who actually has the power to implement them.
Nice suggestion. shinhan is another example. Mostly about food of what he had last night. Even charging some SBD for posting cannot be a solution if you look at the example of how it's always the same whales upvoting the same "Single Picture" post, scooping up 25SBD every time.
I don't understand these people. I hope they realize that there is more potential to earn more and grow here if they work on their own content. They also hurt people especially minnows because they flood the feed and so our content gets overlooked because of these spammy posts. Too many of them now ..sigh... So thanks for your efforts @themarkymark in giving them a lesson.
Who even invented Specially Processed American Meat it's original guise was a heinous invention and it's new incantation is equally deprived of moral substance!
It is frustrating with having to swim through debris of trash to find a jewel post in the midst. Thank you for cleaning up some of the junk on here. There isn’t much that small fishes like us can do but wade through the spam. No idea why the person thinks the reason being flagged is due to jealousy of being one race or another. Ludicrous. Steemit is about growing the community collectively. Doesn’t matter if you are from the west, east, or small island on the rocks somwhere. If you are plagiarizing and putting up content that is not yours, you shouldn’t be rewarded. Simple as that. A person plagiarizing would get an “F” in school. Why shouldn’t that happen on here?
I delegated some SP to spaminator to help. Not sure if that makes a big difference or not.
It does!
Hello Dear Now What You Think Aout This This Is my Unique Article Just Image From Google And You Flag THis Can u Tell Me How this is spam . https://steemit.com/beauty/@mindsmania/makeup-tips-for-teenagers
now what can i think about u
if u are a realy good person than now u remove flag on my this post and upvote this otherwise i think same u are just...........................
steemit87 And khanfd4 these are not my account i have just these 5 accounts @mindsmania
@farhanrajpoot129
@hotandwet
@pornhub1
@aarecipes
That's fucking hilarious.
There are a lot of copy paste accounts out there, may it be copied from another website or steem user, that should be flagged. But unfortunately like you say it's first costly and most likely causing a personal flag war on top of it.
Minnows are scared of it due to those points, especially whenever it comes to abuse through whales. With great power comes great responsibility and I hope that at least some more whales will take their important role seriously on the steem blockchain.
@themarkymark Good catch! The platform is becoming big and saturated. Difficult to police. Maybe the devs can do something about this. Unfair to those decent people who are trying hard to post.Opportunistic people should not thrive on this platform.
Flagging is just a game of whack-a-mole.
Just my opinion. I think you do a good job here on Steemit @themarkymark
Posting on steem should cost money. At least 10 cents. (yours.org has this system and spam is greatly reduced)
It does. To truly make it anywhere on Steemit requires either an investment of money or an investment in quality content and lots of time. Even if spammers weren't flagged, they still would only individually get a small portion of the reward pool because self voting isn't as profitable as you think. In my opinion, there are much worse problems involving bot-net spammers; something that is much more sophisticated than your generic sit-and-post-10-times-a-day-spammer. Flagging is apparently not the answer for this type of spam. I wonder if flagging is effective at all.
You bring up good points, and ones I've been wondering, too. I've looked to see if someone actually looked into this and posted their results, but so far, I haven't found anything. I need to learn more about how to query the blockchain for more than just account names I already know.
At any rate, if it's annoying clutter but unprofitable for the spammers, then while it makes Steemit look bad and potentially less attractive perhaps, the rewardpool is relatively unabused. If it is taking a significant toll, then there needs to be an efficient way to combat it. Flagging, education, what have you.
Kind of sounds cavalier and all about the money, doesn't it? I really don't intend it that way. I do care about quality content.
I hate personally expending resources (which I don't have so I haven't attempted any flagging yet), or see others who do have resources expending so much, especially if it is either a losing battle or a an unseemly but low profit wasteland.
I think we all need to know that, and then maybe adjust strategies accordingly.
I agree! I was trying to read posts under the tag news the other day. One post I read, thought it well written, was about to upvote and comment when I realized it was just a copy/paste from a real news article. Then there are bots now that generate news posts? WTH? I won’t be looking in that tag again.
Not sure how I feel about that, but it's an interesting idea. I heard others say every transaction should cost money, for example sending memos (to stop memo spam) but that's a core feature of Steem is the lack of transaction fees.
Once it is 10 cents, it will slowly grow like Bitcoin fees have. Once the door is open, it will just become larger and larger.
Keeping the cost of entry free so all can participate vs. requiring some skin in the game. I can see the merits of both.
No fee to enter allows everyone in, spreading Steem and Steemit faster and to all parts of the world. Skin in the game might make people more thoughtful about what they post, but inevitably, as you say, it will go up and eventually make it too cost prohibitive, if not go all the way to the point where only those with lots of money can pay to play.
It's a dilemma, and it's really at the heart of not only the spam/plagiarism situation, but the debate over the 'proper distribution' of rewards. Having free entry makes the reward pool seem like monopoly money to a lot of people—even to those who should know better—and it's hard not to think of it like that when you haven't done something to acquire it.
I wish I had the answers. There's so much I feel I need to know. But at risk of overstating the obvious, this issue is only going to get worse when Velocity arrives.
Yeahhh if we could avoid becoming yet another miner-dominated coin that'd be greattt. Steemit already kind of requires at least an initial start-up cost for blog posts to get any visibility. Posting fees would kill the traction steemit has had in developing markets. I think steemit could be a good chance to help raise them up, we shouldn't try too hard to squish them before they've even gotten a chance to compete on an equal level. I know I for one would have difficulty in communicating in any of their native languages.
A tx fee sounds good to me too, the fees could be added to the reward pool. If you can't afford 10 cents to post your stuff into eternal blockchain, then I am not interested in your content - my 2 cents.
You can use @steemcleaners to report spam/abuse. You have less chances this way to be flagged back :)
I do, and I talk with @patrice often. There is just so much to deal with, when I see something I can handle myself, I just do it.
Earning the honorary jr steemcleaner badge! Wear it with pride young scout! 👍
Thanks for your efforts, I’m still learning about these spam and powerful garbage post problems, but I’m down to help out any way that I can. It sounds like some of these issues could destroy the site if left ignored. I guess I don’t understand why changes haven’t already been made to the system and who actually has the power to implement them.
Nice suggestion. shinhan is another example. Mostly about food of what he had last night. Even charging some SBD for posting cannot be a solution if you look at the example of how it's always the same whales upvoting the same "Single Picture" post, scooping up 25SBD every time.
I don't understand these people. I hope they realize that there is more potential to earn more and grow here if they work on their own content. They also hurt people especially minnows because they flood the feed and so our content gets overlooked because of these spammy posts. Too many of them now ..sigh... So thanks for your efforts @themarkymark in giving them a lesson.
And the spam photo looks delicious! :)
Who even invented Specially Processed American Meat it's original guise was a heinous invention and it's new incantation is equally deprived of moral substance!
Good on you! I don't have enough VP to even begin that fight, but I do report them to steemcleaners. It's the best I can do.
Thanks for taking these assjackets to task.
It is frustrating with having to swim through debris of trash to find a jewel post in the midst. Thank you for cleaning up some of the junk on here. There isn’t much that small fishes like us can do but wade through the spam. No idea why the person thinks the reason being flagged is due to jealousy of being one race or another. Ludicrous. Steemit is about growing the community collectively. Doesn’t matter if you are from the west, east, or small island on the rocks somwhere. If you are plagiarizing and putting up content that is not yours, you shouldn’t be rewarded. Simple as that. A person plagiarizing would get an “F” in school. Why shouldn’t that happen on here?