Limit Occurrence Of Upvote Same Account

There are a lot of loopholes that allow spammers and bots to engage in self-upvoting. Creating networks to upvote them, buy upvotes for their garage comments and such.

After you have upvoted someone for the 5th time in a 24 hour period your next upvote(s) toward that account have dimensioning returns in a greatly increasing curve. The upvotes still add to the upvote count; however, the value in reward they add decrease greatly toward zero.

Downvotes, on the other hand, have to remain as they currently are. It’s the only way to combat people spamming and those finding loopholes to game the system.

Directly Dealing With Spam

After the same exact message has been sent to the blockchain by the same user more than 5 times in a 24 hour period the blockchain rejects the submission by that user and displays an error. “User has trigger spam flood protection please discontinue this action or risk having your account locked for 12 hours.”

To not cripple legit spam on the platform that has a positive purpose such as disclosure, warnings, or something the community finds “funny/fun.” Witness in the top 20 in rank are allowed to whitelist users so they do not trigger said flood protection.

This measure will be easy to get around but should kill off any “dumb” bot(s) and make it easier for the community to focus on other types of spam and or abusive exploiting things.