30 000+ posts a DAY!

Have you taken a look at the amount of posts rolling in lately?

Just posts, not comments?

I am playing around with something and working through the posts, I have summarised how many posts I have parsed for the last few days, today's is lower because it's not over yet...

Date	Post Count
2018-05-30	17884
2018-05-29	36369
2018-05-28	38091
2018-05-27	35528
2018-05-26	36197
2018-05-25	40336
2018-05-24	42433
2018-05-23	38728
2018-05-22	40542
2018-05-21	40676
2018-05-20	38290
2018-05-19	37909
2018-05-18	30652

I am sure other people have mentioned this, but I have not read it because there is too much other stuff to actually find their posts!

This is coming off of a discussion in a channel on https://steemit.chat where it was suggested that the bandwidth requirement for posting is too low. I agree.

Apparently the bandwidth requirements are not based on operation type, but rather on is a flat rate based on bytes of the transaction.

I would think it would be worth making posts require more bandwidth, so as to prevent users with very little 'skin in the game' from flooding the blockchain with spam.
I am not saying all posts are spam, but am alluding to the fact that this is ripe for abuse, would you not agree?

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