RE: How-to solve SPAM and Democratize Steem: Introducing UserAuthority

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steemulator (51)in #utopian-io • 7 years ago

New users, myself included, who have little/no userauthority, will be equated to the bots - is my understanding of your proposal correct?

7 years ago in #utopian-io by steemulator (51)

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scipio (65) 7 years ago (edited)

Good question! Short answer: no, you're not seen as a bot, at all!
Longer answer: the proposed mechanism is extendable with all sorts of metrics, that combined identify bots / spammers extremely accurately, distinguished from new users, like you, and more prominently: me! (my own account is brand new!).

Examples:

very low UA, very high amount of posts (that's a sign, right? lots of messages but nobody follows..)
very low UA, very high rewards (that's even stranger!)
very low UA, yet it has lots of followers (spooky....!)
very high UA, zero posts (hmmm, that seems like a passive whale account...)
etc.

PS: in case an account has zero followers (new accounts), they are not found on the total link graph. Yet they are easily includable via a "NewUsers bot", detecting accounts with zero followers, and following them for inclusion within the follower graph.

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steemulator (51) 7 years ago

Thank you for explaining this! I know I am not a bot, let's hope Steemit will also know it : D

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scipio (65) 7 years ago

Steem then first needs to implement my code via HF21 ;-) But Utopian-IO probably will do so before that!

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