Cleaning Up Steemit | "IntroduceYourself" the Most Abused Tag
I'm on a Mission
I'm on a mission to clean up Steemit. I'm sure I'm not going to make any friends doing this, but I feel it's necessary. I'm sure some people who deserve to be flagged will get into reciprical flagging battles with me. I've already had @uscallgirl go on a tirade posting dicks in all my comments . That said I'm gonna push on with a 0 fucks given approach as I don't rely on Steemit for my income. I'd much rather my account suffer and try to keep Steemit a good usable platform, than profit and have the site go to shit.
Today My Target is the "IntroduceYourself" Tag
This is by far the most abused tag on Steemit. I think all of us know, as a new Steemian, your IntroduceYourself post and the tag that goes along with it is very powerful. It's not only your chance to introduce yourself to Steemit and tell the community what your all about. Because we Steemians want to welcome new people we often are generous with our upvotes and try to give people a warm welcome and help them make some money and give them some encouragement on their first post.
Unfortunately spammers and scammers are onto this and abuse the introduceyourself tag. I see some Steemit users who introduce themselves 3-4 times a week. I see other Steemians who have been on here for months and continue to make introduction posts even though their Steemit score is like (52).
I also see others mis-using the tags. Someone posts a picture of a flower on Steemit and tags it introduceyourself, or someone posts an article about crypto and tags it introduceyourself.
As it goes with Steemit many people upvote content without reading it, spammers realize this and post non-relevant stuff using the introduceyourself tag, and get upvotes and make money.
So with all that being said, that's my target today. I'm patrolling the introduceyourself tag and flagging this type of content. If you see yourself flagged by me and come to ask why on my most recent post, this post explains why.
Examples of Spamming & Irrelevent Tagging in "IntroduceYourself"
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@newsfeedworld/7xgsjs-believe-in-yourself
https://steemit.com/introduction/@waterfam/top-10-hodl-investments
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@jeniferjerrin540/hey-i-really-feeling-very-happy-now
https://steemit.com/steemit/@aetschoice/dragonball-tattoo-artwork-2018-aetschoice
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@hollakeo/work-harder-and-get-luckier
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@hyperbob/contrarianism-introduceyourself
https://steemit.com/life/@vajola/selfie-time-2018-03-21-13-19-46
https://steemit.com/steemit/@ghostflux/boat-trip-to-krabi-2018-03-21-13-10-26
These posts above took me literally 3 minutes to find. I would say out of the first 30 posts I saw in the introduceyourself category probably about 20 of them were not relevant to the tag or were total spam.
If you want to help cleanup this problem you can flag it yourslef, or report it to SteemCleaners Abuse
How's this for an #introduceyourself post Johnny, now this is some quality shit right here, and she happens to be a good friend of mine too, so it isn't all bad for the future of Steemit, that's for damn sure!
https://steemit.com/art/@beccaosa/my-art-is-way-too-sparkly-pt-1
Nice one. Quick question maybe you know this. How come some new Steemit users have a store of 25 and others have like a 45? I still don't fully understand our rank numbers and where they come from
It's based on the amount of prospective Steem power of a user, so essentially, the more you earn, the higher your rank goes. If someone takes their vote away before the 7 days are up, you could literally see someones rank drop.
Try it on a spammer in your comments sometime. Give them a 100% up-vote, and see their rank go up, then take it away, and watch it go down bud.
hey man sorry for the double using of the tag. as we had to properly introduce ourselves, we reused it. thank you for understanding. Won't happen again. great that you are doing this btw.
kind regards, @eos.pizza
(ps. also somehow our post got double posted via utopian-io so that is why it has a double double tag)
Thank you, man. I have seen this a lot too. It's obvious that they are abusing it to try to get exposure for Content that is not associated with the Tag.
That's horrific about your last post with the person putting d@ck pictures. Low quality Steemians :(
Yeah most of these posters are like (25), I imagine they are either new and don't really know the rules or they are just frustrated with how difficult it is to get traction on Steemit and are trying to cut corners. That said today I flagged a guy who was a (54) and he commented back why are you doing that, I'm new to Steemit. The guy has like dozens and dozens of posts, I said look dude, we both know your trying to game the system and make money off that tag, I'm leaving the flag. I did upvote 3 other posts of his at 100% because he does make quality content, but posting introduceyourself on a photo post when you've been on Steemit for months is a nono and he knows it.
Btw, it feels good that this is the first day in my 3 months here that I can finally do that....have a slider Bar to give a percentage of Upvote :)
Just really convinced this is a place I want to be in the long term so I purchased a nice amount of Steem and and powered it all up last night to get to that threshold and start helping out others here ( even posted about it )
Thing is I have been going a little crazy and Upvoting all this morning and the Upvote amounts are slowly decreasing as the day wears on lol
Congrats, the slider bar is awesome for being able to spread your votes around a bit more. I think Steemit can be a great platform but I feel like we all need to be gatekeepers and keep things on the up and up
You are definitely right!
The day I got my account approved, I was told to browse the "introduceyourself" tag to know how to create my introductory post too.
I became confuse because most of the post I saw wasn't really about introduction. They were more of selfies and normal posts.
The tag has really been abused. In fact, most of the trending post on the tag aren't made by newbies. They are posts from members with good reputation.
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