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RE: Should I become a comment spammer?
I see, I didn't really see the big picture that way. As more people join the platform, more and more spammers will come to make their pennies at a time and the price of STEEM will continually be depressed. I wonder if there will be a way to address this issue when they close out the beta version? I can only think of flagging for spam at this point. Maybe after x number of flags, the account get suspended for awhile, then booted off the network after a few infractions? Just a thought.
That is sort of what happens if I understand it correctly. If you get flagged enough you lose reputation points and when your account goes low or even negative you pretty much can't do anything on the site. It takes a time to get the rep points back, etc.
I think the better way will be for everyone to be educated not to upvote generic comments. Stop the rewards and the spam should stop - but the problem with that are bots. Bots will just keep spamming and spamming so those accounts need to be flagged at the very least.
It's tough- I guess a combo of flagging and education is going to be what works in the end...I hope! :)
Yep. As users choose more and more to ignore spam comments, and downvote them when necessary, the spammers will end up simply recycling Steem amongst themselves.
As you said, the rep scores also take a hit when small accounts are flagged. I just had "sexy girl" leave a spam post on my blog in the comments section. I downvoted the post and their rep score is now not so sexy at all, dropping from 25 to 15 with one flag.
I never thought about folks making enough to basically live on in impoverished countries via spam comments. This is really sad. This platform could help people like this in other ways, and so much more effectively if used in a non-abusive fashion.
Upvoting spam comments out of pity would only serve make the platform less and less attractive, successful, and quality-content-oriented, crashing the price, and ultimately shooting all of these people in the foot even more, erasing any opportunity to really pull themselves up out of poverty via Steem.
Easy for me to say, I suppose, but that's how I see it.
Well, hopefully if folks keep writing articles to address it, maybe the issue will be brought up to the surface a little and be recognized for what it is. I never thought of those folks as opportunistic, I just thought of them as lazy. But now I get a better sense of what they really are. Thanks for bringing it to light!