What is Spaminator? Part 1
"My goal is to root it out and remove the financial rewards of those spamming for profit."
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRknYxzMMEGR3E5zAzzzEiaZV5nVeKpNpQqecwPS9AUMD/spam.jpg)
Spaminator is a group effort lead by @patrice of @steemcleaners, along with our own Steemit detecive @sherlockholmes, and AI furbaby @sadkitten to find users who make bot accounts with the aim of mass upvoting their own comments and posts. These people who are botting are draining the rewards-pool by throwing ma$$ive upvotes on their ring's comments, and old posts right before payout, to try to game the system on Steemit. When thinking about "bot abuse" this is one of the most damaging offenses. Often made by one person or small circle, controlling many bots, with no intention of contributing anything back to Steemit, nor helping anyone.
You can read more about what exactly is the definition of spam here:
The full list of the services @spaminator provides can be found here. One thing to consider is how much SP us as Steemians use up as downvoting any post or comment results in a -100% downvote. By delegating some steem power to @spaminator, we can help vote out established spammers/more powerful scammers on this platform that are hurting everyone's rewards the most.
This proactive flagging effort is not done by a bot, but by real users investigating and shutting down spam with their combined efforts.
Curation Tools Meant to Help the Community
Steemians have the option to manually curate and upvote posts that bring value to the platform, however reading and browsing posts all day can be time consuming, and difficult to find and reward authors who bring value and quality content. We are plagued everyday by undiscovered authors, and amazing posts that get lost in the wave of articles made every minute.
A service was introduced called Streemian, which allows users to follow the curation trail of fellow curators and authors we trust, and "trail" their votes. The people who manually read a post and have a good approach to voting valuable content can be followed, and by signing up, you can vote on what they vote on. This service was meant to help properly award minnows, discover new talent, and lighten the workload of the entire community by providing a honest effort toward all writers.
Abuse of Curation Tools
Streemian is not a premium service and is free to all users on Steemit. Spammers have found it and are using these tools for personal gain without concern for anyone but themselves. A spammer makes several Steemit accounts, and sets them up to all trail one another, voting all comments and posts in the bot ring they made. This is serious business, as oftentimes a single person is controlling hundreds of accounts.
What makes this difficult to detect at times is that so many accounts are being used in each ring, from the outside they pose as a community with many users, and do not interact with any real accounts.
@sherlockholmes burst a large-scale scam wide open running a 1700+ bot ring back in August, who were vote farming and transfering rewards out of Steemit. The more creative spammers are impersonating artists, and even entire countries by using these methods, and must be stopped. @ecoworld is one of the largest examples of what kind of abuse can take place if left unchecked.
Spaminator Knows Who to Flag
By following the @spaminator account, you will be able to see the daily posts that detail which account names are abusing the system and are in need of downvoting. Each post is divided into two sections; one for posts, and one for comments. By following them, and delegating SP to @spaminator, we can get one step closer to getting rewards to everyone, bringing Steemit up as a whole.
How to Help if You Have Low SP?
Can't delegate? You can still help! The best way is to report abuse to the SteemCleaners Report form. If you have question you can go to #steemcleaners-public on steemit.chat, or @steemcleaners on discord. By learning what types of comments that get flagged, we can better distinguish real users from fakes, and combat this major issue. This wil help put rewards back for all of the hardworking and creative authors that make Steemit what it is, and aims to be in the future.
Another thing you can do is vote for spaminator witnesses, specifically @patrice.
This article by @teamsteem gives a detailed list of steemians who contribute and which ones are witnesses:
Make sure you check out What is Spaminator, Part 2. Interview with @Patrice
This two part series has been a joint effort between myself and @inquiringtimes
I really appreciate the community support for this project. Keeping spam in check now is important.
Thank you again for all you do @patrice, I appreciate your efforts! <3 The only Spam I want is the kind I can eat! c:
You are right.
Very interesting interview and overall overview of @spaminator! Thank you for this awesome work to everyone who is working on the project and everyone who worked on both part of this post!
Hello @teamsteem,
After joining newsteem I realized how important having awareness, and knowing how and what to report is important to helping Steemit.
Thank you for the support, we will continue to do our best!
♡ shello
Spamming is very irritating.
I love your post, you are great to make a post, I just post my introduction in this great world, hope you see it and love it thanks.
Welcome to Steemit, I'll be sure to check your post out c:
https://steemit.com/welcome/@inquiringtimes/333-welcome-to-steemit-333
read this guide @iqbaallsm... also the guides within it.... they will help you grow!
Nice
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Nice, you got a 32.0% @trafalgar upgoat, thanks to @newsteem
It consists of $10.83 vote and $3.61 curation
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very intresting keep it up good job...
i know but what i do im putting so much effort but im going down from every where
last time i thought i leave steemit but now i thing y dont i shuld try to defrent way so thats y im start to ask people for exchange upvote.. what you thing its wrong??
It's really bad manners. People will flag you if you keep doing it!
@ansarikamran, do your best to write your blog, and make friends. Begging doesn't help show why your posts are valuable to Steemit. Keep trying, and you will reach your goals!
Love,
shello
really??? this was my first time im ask for a vote im write every day 5 to 6 post but there is not happen
https://steemit.com/welcome/@inquiringtimes/333-welcome-to-steemit-333
read this guide @ansarikamran... also the guides within it.... they will help you grow!
In order to get more people to see your blog, you first need to visit them and leave a real comment. Saying a post is good is not enough, say why it is, or add your opinion. When you care about other people, they will care about you. So many people spam "good job" or "good post" - doing only this is spamming, and looks bad.
yes im not comment allways but when i saw intresting artical then i comment on that post ...
Oh! Why is my article interesting to you?
yes i read this artiacl you write about bot system and spamming and if you didnot copy past then god bless your fingers bcoz this is so hard and long artical u did good job and slute for your effort
:)
That's the thing though @ansarikamran,
If you copy and paste, you are spamming!
now i get your point and i understand what you trying to say
and i must say first time i got a true person on steemit you are so humble
and understanding its really nice to talk with you so a tight hugs i give you...
love
@ansarikamran :)
Okay! This is better, write real comments and people will care about you too. I went to your article. No copy/paste please! I will not vote it, because it is a bad posting. Write about yourself, and you will do much better c:
hehehe ok i will do promis
LOL, if you try to improve yourself I will vote you. Original content only!!
u can c my blog then you decide this is deserve upvot or not
you copied your post from
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609485/bitcoin-cash-had-a-big-day-hinting-at-a-deep-conflict-in-the-cryptocurrency/
I'm so sorry but I gotta flag you. NO COPY/PASTE
please upvote this post.. https://steemit.com/lavernecox/@ansarikamran/laverne-cox-chelsea-clinton-discuss-political-trans-activism-at-glamour-women-of-the-year-summit
Asking for votes is bad manners, please change your behavior.