Those are typical bots and those bots only do what bots do best: they comment without looking at the content in the hope that somebody will upvote it and thus generate free money for their owners. On https://steemit.com/curration/@mattockfs/results-of-steempersist-paywalhater-script-test-run there are a few scripts posted to detect bots and even to downvote those comments but that experiment in itself led to a real shitstorm.
Hi @marcelmaatkamp. Just read your post, and found a few others about the same topic. I'm not a developer and my knowledge on API usage is very limited, but it's encouraging to see that developers like do try to find a solution.
I am sure you / and other devs will find a reliable solution, as the whole idea of steemit is too good to become a spam and fake accounts place.
I have nothing against making money, but using ethical ways. Otherwise, the system will crash into itself eventually making the SBD worth nothing. People who do this are not aware that from economy perspective they are doing against themselves, not only others by devaluing the crypto on the market. From the point of economy a whole new topic.
Thanks for experiments and scripts you are working on. It definitely add a hope for new members.
@marcelmaatkamp did a good experimentation. Having such scripts in place could make steemit only better. I also did a proposal, rather a simple one that should ensure you need to read the content in order to be able to comment. It's plain and stupid, but sometimes stupid solutions works best. Anyhow let's see the opinions.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@crt/what-steemit-really-need-is-a-captcha