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RE: An idea for a bot to help combat the comment spam
Nice post.......
Just kidding 😘
I do have a question for you though:
Is there any place on the Steemit White Paper or FAQ stating the things that are considered abuse on Steemit?
For example: self-voting on your own comments, how many self upvotes on comments are considered abuse?
In a decentralised system like this anything that can be done is allowed to be done. So they are doing nothing wrong. But people are also allowed to do what the bot I describe does. And again to take it to another level if someone doesn't like what my bot does they can downvote it. Or people can even hardfork the steemit chain to make something undesirable impossible.
Did that answer your question?
Fascinating, I'm a Libertarian so for me, this is the closest thing to a community without a government, because it's decentralized, since there is nobody saying something is "illegal" or "forbidden" people will tend to do almost anything until somebody else tells them it's not "permitted", the community members are the ones that can decide what is to be considered "allowed".
When I first signed up for Steemit, there was a warning about Plagiarism of images and text, something considered to be a big Don't on Steemit, but even outside of Steemit people don't like Plagiarism and in some cases, it's even illegal.
Now talking about self-voting on comments on Steemit, that can be a very grey area, because from the moment that we publish a post a self-upvote is already added automatically, so it's easy for Steemians to think "well already I'm voting on my post, let's vote on my comments also", I'm Not saying it's ok to make a 100 comments like "nice post" and then self-upvote each one of them, but there should be some sort of warning or something before starting to Flag users, that way they can stop doing Sketchy stuff.