Curation Bot Mentions = Automatic Down Votes
Inundated With Spam!
Recently I've been mentioned a lot by Automatic Curation Bots, they are these accounts which were created solely to do automated curation spam for a micro-fraction of an upvote and potential curation payout. They tag me in these posts in hopes I may curate them or the posts they are asking me to curate and my only response is a small downvote of displeasure. I will call out the ones that have been the most active recently at the bottom of this post and paste the history so you all know what I am talking about. Please immediately desist this behaviour I don't want to hear any excuses.
Post Spam
There are zero benefits of these posts to Steem and they only have a slight benefit to the creator of the Spam account. I intend to counteract these posts with a downvote if they mention me. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Let's destroy their reputation and make it unprofitable to do this. Hopefully, we will be given extra 'free' downvotes soon to really counteract this bad behaviour.
Curation Spam
Curation spam is all these micro upvotes we are getting. They are often for a fraction of a % and are basically worthless to the author, the only reason bots do this is to get curation rewards. I hope Steem addresses this issue if they ever decide to increase curation rewards. You should not be able to upvote posts hundreds of times a day and get rewarded for it without ever commenting. There needs to be some sort of sliding scale. For example, if you have less than 100 powered-up Steem, you should not be able to give an upvote for less than 10% of your full voting power. They should also allow authors to set filters so these accounts cannot get curating rewards, for example, if someone upvotes me at less than 5%, they will not get any rewards. There could also be blacklists you should be able to prevent automatic curation at less than a certain amount.
Give real people a chance who actually want to read your post!
sbi5 and beerlover are cool, they mentioned me for a reason as I participate in their communities. The others are not! @follows, @followt, @followu, @followq, @followe, @followy, @followv, @joviye, @chronicled, @t3ran13 what are you doing for the blockchain! Enjoy your downvotes and please stop mentioning me I am not interested in your SPAM.
All SBI accounts have a minimum upvote of $0.012. So if you're mentioned in the voting report, you got actual value, not micro-cents. It's not the most popular threshold because it means 1 SBI only gets an upvote every few weeks, but we think it's a lot better than delivering thousands of dust votes.
For the most part our upvote reports have been well-received. I can definitely understand flagging mention spam, especially when you're mentioned because of a micro-vote.
I definitely don't consider your up-votes spam. The purpose of SBI is not just to skim curation rewards off the blockchain. As a somewhat large holder of SBI, I can say you guys definitely add value to Steem and I highly recommend people look into SBI.
Sir please understand me sir. I am full time steemian sir. My country very poor sir. I make business sir.
Seriously though, I think if a curation reward or vote value is less than 0.001sbd it should have to be a 100% upvote to receive any curation. Also, nothing above 75% of vote value for first 15 minutes.
Have an upvote and be gone beggar 😸 never thought of that idea about banning microvotes in the first x minutes, another great way of making a sliding scale.
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Hi @crypticat!
Your post was upvoted by @steem-ua, new Steem dApp, using UserAuthority for algorithmic post curation!
Your UA account score is currently 3.116 which ranks you at #9123 across all Steem accounts.
Your rank has dropped 14 places in the last three days (old rank 9109).
In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 483 contributions, your post is ranked at #293.
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