RE: Steemit Update [ August 20th, 2022 ] : Community Curators for September - Applications Open
Undoubtedly, this is a great innovation on the platform. Many times, I feel the community space is sometimes dominated by unreal individuals that have mainly set up accounts to farm upvotes at least 3x and a probable selection in the top spots.
We have tried as much as possible to reduce these but not totally eradicated yet, I guess this new method by the team would go a long way to refining our dear Steem ecosystem. A few users have been doing great in terms of commenting before and I believe the initiative we are looking forward to would make things better and competitive to make quality comments (knowing you tend to earn more from it).
I'm loving how the ecosystem is turning into a more interesting social space with the team's different initiatives. It's a bit hard to say goodbye to my team of many months but the positive change this is bringing is greater and it's worth it.
In addition, can we take identity even seriously this time? A few users only have their images on achievement posts and after that, they continually share content that has no relation to their identity, mostly targeted at community curators. The most likely reason for this is an account being operated by an existing user while the images in the achievement task are just figureheads.
Considering the last paragraph, the claim might be greater than what we could have imagined, I appreciate it when some communities tell their participants to take selfies in some contests, is this enough? Can we take it more seriously by screening users more intensely to see how far the same person in the achievement tasks has consistently appeared in his/her blog?
In essence, some have just been contracted to have their images used while the real person in charge does the job and this has promoted more farming accounts.
I'm well pleased with this amazing change by the team and we hope for the best. Thanks for the update, steemitblog.
We are very keen to stop the content farming.
We rely heavily on the Community Curators and the Country Reps to help identify and call out the accounts involved in this content farming. General members of the community can play their part in this as well. They can always contact their Country Reps if they spot any suspicious activity.
That's quite true, community curators and country reps can play an important role in the process, I have seen some working in that capacity who have been able to identify some in the past, likewise, some community members.
That being said, I think one of the mistakes that have been made before now was tagging only moderators/admins of the communities where the irregularities were found. For instance, an account identified to be a farming account under the former curation theme can easily move to another theme and get supported.
Members (one or two) across other curation themes could have been tagged in the process to beware of such accounts in the first place, as such makes the identification more effective across the platform, I believe this would be worked on subsequently.
In addition, when there are issues with farming accounts and it becomes so necessary for the country reps to investigate the case. I think introducing cross-border investigation with the aid of reps from other countries would also be great after the native country reps have done their jobs, this would further strengthen the process of resolving such cases.
I understand there might be language barriers but close country reps with almost identical official languages can be of help in such cases. Thanks for your attention, SC01.
Hi my friend, something that I always ask everyone who is going to do curation is to review the profiles.
If someone has been labeled as a farming account, or as a plagiarist in one community, they surely practice this in the others.
Many do not review the profile, and this is important.
As well as what you mention about using real and own photos. Farmers do not usually take selfies, or use their own photos. Although this is not restrictive, but in plagiarism, photos from the internet are often used.
I quite agree with the format of reviewing accounts before voting an article, I practice this often to see how genuine a user in question is.
The most disastrous part of it is selecting a user that seems not genuine for the top spot, no matter how good the content is, one should be able to review and see the activities of such users over time. I guess this is the reason I have left some articles out of top spots previously.
Yes, they don't. You know it would be hard for them to ask for pictures of whose picture was utilized for the creation of the account over and over again without opening room for another contract, of course, they are not ready for another one.
You have nailed it, @inspiracion. Thanks for your time.
Feel free to tag CRs as well.
Okay. Thanks for the listening ears on the situation, SC01.
I think to reduce farming account users should use real profile photos so curators can match profile photos with photos in content, as a greeter I always ask newcomers to use a profile photo.
Sorry if I'm wrong on this.