My lonely crusade... (spammers)😥
Hello fellow Steemians!
I was wondering if any of you try to “curate” the feeds in a proper (traditional) way. What I mean is flagging and reporting spam, fake accounts and misleading tags.
Sometimes I feel that i’m on a lonely crusade against the heathen spammers … 😥
Sure we have bots like the @cheetah but to be honest they miss most spam posts and copy/pastes, and end up downvoting original content like my post here (Reason why I won’t do any more funny translations on Steemit).
One thing that really gets on my nerves is the tag spammers, especially the “steemit” and “introduceyourself” spammers. As we all know, there are bots that welcome newcomers and give them a tiny tip to help them on their way. Some unscrupulous users include the introduceyourself tag into every post they make to obtain the 0.001 SBD tips from the bots (even though you would make more money by going outside and finding $0.01 on the floor 😏).
Seeing as there is currently no bot to “hammer the spammer” I have taken up this lonely crusade myself taking to flagging spam posts from accounts that misuse the tag frequently. Unfortunatley my flag only nails them -$0.02 but hopefully it should give them some piece of mind as their post usually has generated $0.07 from the bots…
I hope people don’t just read this post and think “Hey, great! I’ll spam the tags too”. I must warn you that I have recently found out the wonders of Steemit.chat. With Steemit chat we finally have the power to report spammers, fake accounts and plagiarism and not just downvote their content! Oh happy days! 😄
I was wondering if anyone else takes it upon themselves to report abuse on Steemit, or are you all too busy upvoting random posts and resteeming any post made by a user with a reputation of 70+ (the other dark side of Steemit).
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Great post, you are not alone :p
Thanks! It's great to see poeple "fighting the good fight"! 😁
Keep up the good work!
I know how you feel! I've been flagging mostly plagiarist and comment spammers and sometimes it feels like there's just no end to it.
Keep up the good work though! You're not alone in this and all we can do is set the right example :-)
Awesome not being the only one!
Its down to the community to keep Steemit clean!
You can use https://steemit.chat for effective reporting. For a booster you may be tipped for your good samaritan work! But i'll do it for free :D
Yeah, I report to Steemcleaners when I find something most of the time. They just have more resources to deal with the repeat offenders than I do.
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I hate spammers as well scammers. Ill keep my eyes open. Good tip about the chat.
Great @signorfeast !
Its up to the community to keep Steemit clean! 😁
Count on you to flag spammers in the future?
count on me I will flag everybody...I mean spammers :-D
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Awesome-ness! 😁
I did see your posts on most of those scammy introduceyourself posts, Good work!
Thanks! 😄
Hope you can help curate the feeds aswell! 😁
I do my little by reporting to @steemcleaners. Need more power. Crouching till I get enough power to pounce.
Yea, my SP is only 170,300 in a few days but it stilldoesn't have much impact
We may need a downvote version of minnowbooster to tackle it.
That would be a good idea, but how would the bot verify that it is spam 🤔
Some types of scam are easy to identify by querying the database, others may require manual intervention.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@dbdecoy/steemit-intro-tag-abusers-daily-report-19-sep Here's my little report in identifying these intro spammers. I'll try to do it daily, Spread the word.
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@domcrypto You are not alone!!! I just started on steem 4 hours ago and I am already thinking the same thing. BUT I am setting up the chat as I type this and I will join your forces to keep the garbage under control!!!! 🗑
🤔... Great @devonreal , welcome to the light side! 😄
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