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RE: Steem hardfork ahead (improvements in comment rewards, liquidity system, acc. recovery, min. block size and bugfixes)
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/176 makes it clear this is talking about posts, not comments:
mvandeberg commented 3 days ago
It is currently only applied to top-level posts. Comments lack the visibility to make much from
spamming.
If it were possible a better solution to spam is just to let the blog poster set the filter themselves. Say I post a blog, why not let me set the rules of my own blog?
It's going to be interesting to see the effects of this change.