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RE: Spam Observations for 8/26
The problem with your approach is the same as here: https://steemit.com/steemit-abuse/@patrice/blind-upvoting-introduceyourself
You are inadvertently encouraging users to spam for profit.
Curious, do you feel the same in regards to the automated "badges" that users get?
Because that's more how I was modeling this bot's vote-to-support-the-project comment.
If you just re-steemed that would be great. As you grow in SP users will try to manipulate your bot to get a couple of cents up-votes. Run a couple bots in different tags then it's easy to tag spam them, wait for the votes, remove the tags.
Badges like @steemitboard would be more difficult to manipulate than up-voting every person that posts in a tag. If someone were to have a badge that could be easily manipulated to get up-votes I would feel the same.
Since you replied you obviously care about the community. Come find me on steemit.chat. Maybe we can put our heads together to figure out a way to prevent you bot from being abused. Such as not upvoting anything @cheetah has flagged. Having a blacklist for known tag spammers, etc.
I dig that. I'll come find you sometime tomorrow (1am here right now, lol).
The voting isn't working right now anyway, but even when it does I'm only giving a 0.1% vote, lol. But I see your point for sure.
Sorry I haven't come and found you... got nailed with the flu. Not blowing you off. I did go ahead and remove the vote code (and description) from the bot. At least until I can figure out a way to do is that's generous without being abused. I'd sort of like to see it used to help "bump" newbie posters (maybe based on time since signup/etc?) without it being so much of a boost that it makes abusing it really at all effective. Perhaps those who are new, get above 35 rep, and are making a post to comment ratio of a certain percent? Who knows... a lot to think about. Though, it'll be quite a while before it's really even at enough SP to be something to think hard on.