Message to ReSteem Bot Owners: Stop Spamming Our Wallets You A**holes
My wise older brother once imparted to me that Laws and Rules are boundaries, and inside of those boundaries lies what is known as Common Sense. That common sense is the intuitive knowledge and behavioral conditioning that a majority of people adhere to because of morals, empathy, and their own conscience, while the rest of humanity that lack any empathy or conscience are usually kept in check with the consequences of breaking the rules or the Law. Where there are no consequences, there is no law.
Steem is a different breed of animal. It's a giant social media ecosystem where money has the last word in everything. Steem removes centralized Laws and puts the act of keeping balance into the hands of the people through monetary reward or punishment. As long as we can enact change collectively through that mechanism, there is still Law and Order.
For anyone new to the Steem ecosystem, @thecryptofiend has written an etiquette guide that covers many areas of Steem interactions. It is not a set of rules, but rather a set of guidelines that encompass what is generally acceptable or unacceptable behavior, and best practices to help keep the ecosystem clean and consistent.
Something as simple as using the NSFW tag if you are posting nudity is part of the Steem etiquette guide. Sure, you can post nudes without the tag, but expect to be downvoted by a lot of other Steemians for being an assclown.
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In part 11 of the Steem etiquette guide, it reads:
The Steem wallet allows people to send messages. Unfortunately people have recently been using it to send out tiny amounts of Steem as a means of advertising themselves or their posts. Don't do it you will waste your money and annoy a lot of people.
I couldn't put it better.
While the wallet spam is a clear abuse of a system that does not currently have direct consequences, The worst part of the spam is that the message is a wall of text. If I'm not interested in being reSteemed to your 50,000 fake followers + midget whale upvotes + a free smile + random upvotes that I might already get anyway, than annoying me with a TL;DR wall of gibberish is not going to change my mind.
This is what I see when these bots advertise in my wallet:
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How about you guys find more productive ways to advertise your service instead. If buying a grab bag of random junk is a service that's in high demand, you shouldn't need to beg us for business in the most abusive way possible. Go make work somewhere else please.
I would suggest that the ignore feature on Steemit include wallet messages @ned, but I'm sure the development team is already working on it. I've noticed my wallet having problems loading for the past little while, is this partly because of these spammers flooding the system? I wouldn't doubt it.
That's about all I have to say on the subject, and I sincerely hope there's no one paying these reSteem trolls because it will only make the spamming worse for the rest of us. Not to mention, if the community can't go after the bots then eventually the consequences fall on people sending them money. Food for thought.
Thank you for reading. Try to keep your head attached in these crazy and blood-thirsty crypto markets.
Steem Guides (in reading order):
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thank you for saying this! we have to apply pressure on steemit community to fix this issue before it gets out of hand.
@briggsy I with you this why I created serval days ago this tool
https://steemit.com/steemit/@toresto/resteem-club-the-only-resteem-tool-you-ll-ever-need
to stop this
"PROMOTE YOUR POST: SEND 1 SBD and URL in a memo to @eatourspam to 100,000 followers and blah blah blah...."
great initiative!
I get so mad getting this stupid messages in my wallet, and you don't know what good or what bad, and they all saying we have 150000 followers, so my tool check how many real active followers they have and guess what out of 25,000 only 100 the rest is fake accounts and death followers, and together with a help of other steemanian we will make a blacklist and a whitelist.
I wonder how much STEEM I have amassed over the last couple months in .001s. They should add this to thelist of things you can track in https://steemworld.org/
I see it as kind of funny as long as it is not creating performance problems. I personally would rather post a comment on someones latest post with a message and thanks but I suppose BOTS are not coded for that.
Otherwise, they are like old paper flyers at the house. Straight to the recycling bin without looking at them.
yeah, I'm mostly concerned about the performance issues. For the most part I was laughing while writing this post.
I've often wondered how much I've accumulated in 0.001 receives as well.
Also don't like the spam, but also don't like the bots even more. We have some compassion for users who post good stuff and don't get read, they are simply trying every avenue to get some attention, you can't really hold that against them. But if they use a bot to mass-spam, well THAT get's irritating in a hurry. So maybe it's just (badly programmed) robots we hate? And in that respect, isn't that what Steemit really is in its entirety? An Imperfectly-programmed bot.
Noticed you have a Dogecoin tip jar, so might be interested in how that affects the price of Dogecoin...
https://steemit.com/money/@harpooninvestor/dogecoin-is-ironically-where-all-successful-cryptocurrency-prices-will-go-to-die
wallet spam is abuse because it cannot be ignored or flagged, and the bot owners deliberately do it for that reason. There's no forgiveness for that. it's a dick move.