How Does Steemit Prevent Spam???
Ideas In Preventing Spammy Stories
Is it possible that someone could just make many, many Steemit accounts and write random spammy STORIES in hopes that people would randomly upvote them and enable that user to unfairly profit? How could Steem administration manage this undisciplined behavior?
The answer is automated bots that down vote spam and duplicates and malicious accounts.
Second is user specific filtering in the ui.
The only ui requirement is to honestly show trending posts.
Great question! It's managed on chain through rate-limited transactions. There's also cost to account creation and additional costs for someone who wishes to have more stake to make more posts. The more stake they have, the less interested they may be in spamming the network.
Application layer solutions may also appear .. where members may find consensus on spammy accounts and default hide their posts.
Additional info can be found here: https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf
The blockchain has a minimum SP requirement for each account (currently 10 STEEM, controlled by witnesses) so creating many, many accounts would be expensive. The other deterrent is downvotes which make it less likely the spam will even be seen much less upvoted. The web site could also employ other measures, but I have no idea what they have planned if anything.
Well, captcha comes to mind. That would block bots as spammers.
Human spammers are a different story, though. The community can eventually outcast them. With some friendly tools like downvote, report, ban, ...
Block chain cannot use captcha because anyone can broadcast a transaction.
I see. But this can be two different issues:
Or do I just don't understand it? :)
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I was receiving timeouts but actually managed to post the same reply four times. Bug in a UI?
Just one question, can i make blogs or post about other pages?
Already people talking about organising a sort of Steemit vote-farm :/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1549492.new#new
Not cool.