"Topic-hijacking" or "tag-spamming".... it is a pain, steemit need an update.
One of the worst thing I saw last days are that people just tag their stories with all top topics. So all top 10 are full of introduction posts what has absolutely nothing to do with each topics. It is just spamming the whole topics with their (mostly introduction) posts.
We need some update what would prevent that a topic get massive upvotes and dominate in a topic where it is absolutely wrong placed.
So what can be done?
Next to optimizing the algo this would be the quickest solution I think....
We need a template update that tags get "visible" to public. So people can see if tags are "OK" or it is spammed in 10 other topic channels. This would prevent upvoted posts in topics where they have no place.
Why it has to be done quick?
Because this can get a quick real pain & issue when more people start to do it.
Today one of the top topic (nr. 2) was "marijuana" & when Bob the stoner get unrelated content in his face from Luci what just want to say she look to get rich here on steemit it is a pain.
So hope there will come some update soon otherwise it will get spammy as hell.
If you want to help, start flagging these spam posts like I do.
#doyourpart
Yeah it is just uninteresting before it started :-)
Today for example there were in top 12 of topic "marijuana" just 3 related ones.... the other ones all tag-spammed ones. When the dev team will not work on it quick it can be the quick painfull killer - nobody read through spam posts in wrong categories.
The market cap is simply not representing the steemit platform in no way (as it is the only app) - somehow a joke when think what elementary things are not solved and others totally poor implemented.... lol. Also interesting - this downvoting bring somehow nothing as they post it in all top topics. The massive upvotes on this posts will follow that this all even dominate the whole niche topics.
You can view the tags of a post in steemd.com, but yea, I wish they showed up in steemit.com. It is such a simple thing and would help a lot.
yeah - just figured out your feature request was the same :-)
Good to have you to look after that issue & thanks for your work. So I have a new strategy.... I upvote all of you that get you a lot of of power to downvote them - lol.
Thanks, I can share the love too.
I agree. Why not a simple keyword search bot that checks if the topic TAG is mentioned as a keyword, RELEVANTLY in sentences throughout the actual steemit post?
I used tags to abuse my post below. Why? I know it wont get noticed otherwise, and that form of abuse needs to be limited. For now, others will use it until it is changed.
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