The Spam Animations
Spam!! We might hate it but it is a sign of Steemit's success that we are attracting so much of it. Today I have been flagging some right shady nonsense and it reminded me of my spam animations.
There was always a little spam on steemit but it wasn't until the user numbers really started to spike three or four months ago that it started to become a noticeable issue.
My first animation around this was a simple one. Born of the frustration that users were feeling from the people who would approach them in chat or in the comments on their post and just dumping a link and demanding an upvote, follow and a resteem.
Gradually new users guilty of this started to get the idea and it died down a little. Still happens occasionally but at least it is not every five seconds.
My next, possibly overused favourite of the bunch was Nice Post. A new breed of spammers had arrived. With the arrival of hardfork 19 votes were worth much more than before. Spammers would randomly comment one or two word comments hoping for comment votes.
Ah, I still love that one.
Spammers are clever though. Where money is involved they will work tirelessly to game the system. Soon it was uncovered that some users were posting random numbers as comments on old posts and then upvoting these with their full power for the mega bucks. I thought this animation was quite apt.
Especially when people started to get caught a lot of them claimed they were innocent and didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Ah, you gotta love it.
Finally, I was inspired when people wrote of the reward pool being humped by bots. I thought it would be good to bring an old character the Steem Prince back into the fray. With a new weapon. The Steem Hammer!!
I use an android app on my phone called Flipaclip to create my animations. If you fancy it, try it out. It's cool making them but it takes an awfully long time! Feel free to ask me any questions on it though. I am here to help.
I LOVE THIS ON SO MUCH HAHAHA
It's a good one! ;0)
will it ever end?
nooooooo still producing in the Steemit factory :)
Never, I just put one up tonight! HOORAY!
Thank you for posting @meesterboom.
The lead image with you and the animation star together is fantastic.
Steemians appreciate the humour these animations bring, especially that cheeky wink at the end. ^_^
Wishing you and yours all the best. Cheers.
Thank you @bleujay! I am getting better and better with my cover art I think as I get more and more practice. Some of them I am impressing myself with!!
And I always loved the wink ;0)
These gifs are real gems, I hope to see more of these in the future!
I ain't gonna stop!! Cheers!
Beging is actually problem of Steem. Some people don't understand the system.
They don't and I can't stand the begging aspect.
I've never been a fan of spam, whether its from a can or on someones post. A fellow user in one of my groups created a cool card, not as good as your animations, but cool nonetheless
Lol, that is a cool card!
Yeah, I don't like spam either... of any variety :)
Dude that animation is AWESOME!!!!
You really are quite a creative guy! I am seeing more and more proof that every post!
I do agree the spam is a sign of success. Everyone is trying to get a piece of the pie!
I think we need more groups to police spam, copy paste and especially plagiarism. If we keep them from earning they will give up and the word will spread that it doesn't work. the ONLY reason there is so much of it is because it is WORKING.
Obviously we won't be able to prevent all spam but we can stop it pretty quick and let it be known that it does not work!
In fact we could pay these poor spammers to find spammers and earn instead of spamming....Thats a GOOD idea!
I am going to write about that ASAP!
That is a good idea!! It's like hackers, they always end up employed by the people they tried to hack!!
It's also sad that it must be working which is why so many are at it. What is really unfortunate is that we are probably only catching the rubbish spammers whilst the good ones laugh all the way to the SBD bank.
I am forever flattered that you like my stuff dude. Coming from someone like yourself is quite the thing!! :0D
Glad you like the idea! Now I have ANOTHER project on my to do list.....BETTER GET SOME COFFEE!
I am glad you respect and appreciate my standards and ideals. I do not throw compliments around lightly as most peoples content is rubbish! Im not afraid to say that either lol ;-)>
Great to meet you, wee have some fun times on here together!
SteemON!
It's true, I ain't afraid of saying it either. There is a lot of rubbish on here but it makes it worthwhile when you come across that which isn't!
You can't beat having a few projects on the go at once!!
Steem on dudester!!
Yes staying busy and productive aint difficult for me!
Keeps me going and GOING!
Keep up the great work RawkStar ;-)>
FIRST!
Aw man, I aint seen a FIRST in ages! LOL!!
How could anyone refuse that!!
The first one is my favourite...
"Yeah.... I'll resteem you to da moon!!
Haha!
I'm going to check out Flipaclip, but seeings as these animations clearly take wit+patience+skills.... well, checking it out is probably all I'll do. :)
I'm usually good with just ignoring spammy, worthless comments but now and then some of them make me really cross.
For example there are quite a few lovely posts around at the moment about @lauralemons. Such a sad situation... and to see people spamming their links and useless comments on posts like these brings on my womanly rage.
Hehe, Its worth a drive by but that is probably enough! lol
Yeah, the fact that they are rarely tempered by the situation just makes it worse. I caught a couple of guys blatantly trying to profit from the Rohinga situation by claiming they were going to buy them food. But it was just a blatant chance at ripping off money. Spammers on sensitive posts should destroyed!
Phew, managed to pull that back as I was getting abit serious??!? :O)
Oh yeah, I saw those posts too. They were putting those links on every post they could get their grubby little mitts on...
Destroy! Destroy!
A serious MeesterBoom?! Heaven forbid!!
Exactly. Its just not on! I mean where could I go from there?
Yeah, the little fookers, destroy indeed!
Wow you used the animations well to explain the spam issues we are face here. I think that it will go to the moon when the flood gates will be opened and millions of people sign in. How do we take care of 500K spam and scam posts daily? however the upside is that steem price will go to the moon with millions of users ....I will look at the bright side however we all will be ready for spam in extreme form...maybe at that time we will be forced to be gentle men and ignore all or risk compromising our voting power to 0
It's a difficult one. Will we end up spending all our voting power fighting it out will some newer way of dealing with it be found! I hope they do find a way
Same here too...we will certianly see huge spam issue however steem should create armies that will be talking it with many steem powers
The Anti spam brigade!!