The Steemit Daily Dose: Spamming on Steemit ain't cool.
7 years ago in #steemit by mindhunter (72)
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Top job on calling it out. I remember upvoting bottymcbotface for the comment on my introduction post and have recently come to realise that it plays into the kind of 'hit rates' that you describe in your video.
Enough $0.01 upvotes certainly adds up over time!
About your friends; in my opinion you can still say they are good people, even if they do some things that you don't agree with - it's a lot like family in that way haha.
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Steemit is indeed like one big school classroom! Everyone mashed together everyday in the same room!
I disagree with your view putting "bottymcbotface" into the spamming category. He does a valuable job introducing and giving folks a tip with when they join the platform. If you don't like it, then don't upvote it, remember the choice is always yours. If you think of it as spam, then develop your own system of welcoming and introducing people to the platform. Don't look at what he is making from it, it is at that point because people see value in it
Dude... using a bot to write the same text to every user that joins the platform is the best example of spamming! And giving a .001 "tip" is another way of spam! A lot of people send transfers and in the memo they put a link to a post, just to get noticed. I think yes, that user is one of the top spammers on this platform.
That's what I should've said! Haha, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's more than a little spammy.
BookingTeam, now there's the top spammer on the platform. Thousands of rewards from his circle-jerk crew every day:
https://steemit.com/curation/@lexiconical/exposing-advertiser-circle-jerks-in-trending-reward-pool-rape-and-bookingteam-com
Hey you're welcome to disagree @daudimitch. I didn't accuse it of being spam but I happen to think your evaluation of the value created by those actions is flawed.
There is no need to develop a 'system' - A pretty decent system already exists where real users greet new users.
I don't spend much time welcoming newbies on Steemit any more, I've built connections and so naturally there's less time.
I do, however, spend time in the #help feed to assist newbies & spend time in the chat offering assistance when needed. I do it to help, not in the hopes I'll get an upvote.
If a bot could do that, I'd happily upvote it all day.
I´ve seen this guy that no matter how long his comments are, he always upvote them with 100% (even one liners) and the posts he upvotes gives a 5-10% SP. I got into a discussion with him about it and he upvoted EVERY reply he made. In the end, he didn´t understand the point of no-voting-for-yourself.
I also get mad to people doing that, I want to get into a fight with every one of them but I would get into a war I would probably lose!
The best part? If you or me tell them not to spam, as you say on min 3.40, they will ignore us, because as I said, they are only concerned about themselves... We need a strategy that does not involve flagging to stop this :/
BANG! Said it in a nutshell Eric. Flagging is not the solution. HF-20 needs to take care of this somehow??
Some people definitely think they deserve more of the reward share for investing than others do.
I am not sure we'll ever get broad community agreement on this issue, either.
30 min, ?!? You hair is so long now! I agree I hate when they try to be sneaky and like oh hi I upvoted and put their link in there and tell ME to look at it. Don't they know im LOCO @mindhunter No respect for the Queen of Sparta. come to chat soon need to tell you something about yesterday haha
Hahaha the Queen of Sparta XD
Yeah I find that lame. I mean there is nothing wrong to tell people you followed them once in a while, but also stating why are you following them, kind of like feedback for the user to keep doing what he/she is doing. I do it on like 10% of my follows, even more so when they are small accounts, gives them a deserved boost.
Also liked your comment, please check my profile I think you will like my content, plz give me a follow and I´ll follow back! hahahahahahahaha
lol I don't mind a comment like that, its the ones that actually put the link in and think we are dumb haha I already follow you and will check you out again haahaa
Your one liners need to hit a 7/10 before a FULL LOAD @road2wisdom! Like for like voting requests can also be seen as spamming you see! Hee-hee!<3
Last I checked I beat you at your own one liner @mindhunter hahaha did you read what I mentioned before?
I read everything you mentioned before ... TWICE!! [Since your so special!] :)
I was about to crack that he was gonna need a haircut or he'd be looking like Ringo, but you beat me to it!
lol, Ringo, is that the real Paul! 😂
Just part of the ecosystem and will never stop so long as Steemit keep growing with new comers joining every day. Simple commenting or spamming is just a way to collect a small share of the curation rewards. If comments does not offer a share of the reward then these type of spamming will not occur.
mute is just sitting there.
Waiting to be your best friend :)
Thanks for speaking out! Plagiarism is getting out of hand, too. I can ignore the spam comments that happen on my posts, but seems to be getting harder to wade through all of the crap and dump posts from other users to find the genuine content that first attracted me to the Steemit community. I think that's annoying me the most.
Upvoted and followed! :)
I am in full agreement with you @jazzyfish - lets hope hard fork 20 brings some resolutions! ;)
I see the same people writing very knowledgeably about every topic under the sun and they get good rewards with a huge following. Are these original articles because they are written flawlessly? I don't thick there is much that can be done about it unless yo can catch them out.
Those articles are copy/pasted from somewhere else, and part of the problem is that genuine users aren't taking the time to check out the content or the user it came from before hitting the upvote button.
it is actually very easy to do a reverse search on text to see if it has been used elsewhere, but it gets harder when the cheaters take an article to Google Translate and change it up. In fact, that's what the @cheetah bot and @steemcleaners are there for.
Plagiarism can be fought, but it's a never-ending battle.
This is like the 5 post I've seen just today about this! Seems spamming is becoming a big issue.
Hopefully something can be implemented to counteract the spamming, is way too many bots here. Almost as many bots as real people.
I don't know too much about these hard forks but perhaps features could be put into HF20 as a good fix to spam?
Voting power depletion is not the way to stop spam! i.e. flagging! We need a new fix.
it seem ok to say so ,however how does one get better exposure?
Write better content first, then the followers will come. Cart before horse @writemore :)
Hello @mindhunter nice post!
I have read your blog and I find your posts interesting. I have posts about spamming too. Please check it out at https://steemit.com/steemit/@shellany/i-love-to-spam-you-to-death .
I've upvoted and followed you, please follow and upvote my posts too!
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Seriously though, great video master @mindhunter haha! Agree on points about spamming though (that link doesn't exist by the way, hope you didn't click it! lol)
Ha ha! You are so funny @shellany :) It seems everyone is on their spamming high horse today!
I can't help but be polite to them though, sucks being a goody-two-shoes sometimes. But yeah can't understand why they never learn or are they that stu--- ahhh... unaware that it's annoying as heck! But then I got to understand that steemit is diverse, and it's growing more than ever. Poor me I gotta learn to ignore! hehe
A depressed Steem price is not helping the minnows either - it's making them turn to beggy and spammy behaviour! :(
I observed, spamming instead of posting quality content. Some may have gone to have a slight vacation from Steemit and cryptos I guess, maybe the environment have become stressful for them. Harder to grasp good votes nowadays. But I still remain optimistic that these issues will be addressed soon! :)