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RE: Steemit Update [ August 20th, 2022 ] : Community Curators for September - Applications Open
We are very keen to stop the content farming.
We rely heavily on the Community Curators and the Country Reps to help identify and call out the accounts involved in this content farming. General members of the community can play their part in this as well. They can always contact their Country Reps if they spot any suspicious activity.
That's quite true, community curators and country reps can play an important role in the process, I have seen some working in that capacity who have been able to identify some in the past, likewise, some community members.
That being said, I think one of the mistakes that have been made before now was tagging only moderators/admins of the communities where the irregularities were found. For instance, an account identified to be a farming account under the former curation theme can easily move to another theme and get supported.
Members (one or two) across other curation themes could have been tagged in the process to beware of such accounts in the first place, as such makes the identification more effective across the platform, I believe this would be worked on subsequently.
In addition, when there are issues with farming accounts and it becomes so necessary for the country reps to investigate the case. I think introducing cross-border investigation with the aid of reps from other countries would also be great after the native country reps have done their jobs, this would further strengthen the process of resolving such cases.
I understand there might be language barriers but close country reps with almost identical official languages can be of help in such cases. Thanks for your attention, SC01.
Hi my friend, something that I always ask everyone who is going to do curation is to review the profiles.
If someone has been labeled as a farming account, or as a plagiarist in one community, they surely practice this in the others.
Many do not review the profile, and this is important.
As well as what you mention about using real and own photos. Farmers do not usually take selfies, or use their own photos. Although this is not restrictive, but in plagiarism, photos from the internet are often used.
I quite agree with the format of reviewing accounts before voting an article, I practice this often to see how genuine a user in question is.
The most disastrous part of it is selecting a user that seems not genuine for the top spot, no matter how good the content is, one should be able to review and see the activities of such users over time. I guess this is the reason I have left some articles out of top spots previously.
Yes, they don't. You know it would be hard for them to ask for pictures of whose picture was utilized for the creation of the account over and over again without opening room for another contract, of course, they are not ready for another one.
You have nailed it, @inspiracion. Thanks for your time.
Feel free to tag CRs as well.
Okay. Thanks for the listening ears on the situation, SC01.
I think to reduce farming account users should use real profile photos so curators can match profile photos with photos in content, as a greeter I always ask newcomers to use a profile photo.
Sorry if I'm wrong on this.