Hey Steemian's,
I don't know about you guys, but I have been seeing a ton of spam on Steemit lately, I mean seriously, A TON
I don't like it, not at all, not in my wonderful Steemit playground. I will not stand for it, in fact none of us should. Spammers have the same goal in mind as most people on Steemit:
to make money but the dedicated Steemian's I know, work their butts of for the pennies they make. I don't think we should have to deal with lazy spammers clogging up our work space. That is my opinion anyways.
Although some of us may see it as a secondary benefit to expressing ourselves uniquely on this amazing platform, we can all agree on this, Steemit needs an overhaul if it's to make it in the long run. There is only so much that can be done at the minnow level, we are all aware of this, but even still, we have the power to clean the place up through our voting power.
If you are anything like me, you glance at spam posts and think to yourself, "well, I want to flag this, but my voting power is precious to me, and I would rather utilize it to help my friends."
Yes I think this ALL THE TIME, and because of limited VP, I have passed over spam posts (I'm ashamed to say), but you probably have too, lets be honest, because if you didn't you would probably be at zero VP right now. That's just how flooded it has become.
(What if you can get paid a little crypto for that downvote ;))
If we flag these lazy bastards into the abyss, it will become clear to them, that their spamming BS will amount to nothing on our beloved platform.
So I have devised a way to help!
Some of you may remember my Daily Doge a while back, which slowly died away from lack of support, and a dwindling value in the market. I was much saddened, such depressed about the situation, but our beloved Doge is back on the rise!!
So this is how it will work:
- 250 Dogecoin will be paid in total
- 25 Doge per claim (Current rate makes this 0.11 cents USD)
- 1 claim per Steemit user
(If you decide to claim with multiple accounts, be smart enough to use different addresses, futuremind doesn't like greedy people...If I catch you, you'll get banned from participating)- For any non math calculating individuals, that equates to 10 paid seats.
Participation instructions:
- Find either a spam post, or a spam comment, and flag it. If you have the ability to adjust your vote weight, consider using enough weight to at least equal its value to your payment. (If you don't know what I am talking about with adjusting vote weight, you probably don't have the ability to.) In the case that you don't, just flag the spam.
- Take a screen shot of your downvote, and share it in the comments section of this post.
- Add your Dogecoin address in the comment with the screenshot.
(I will likely verify the downvote via Steemworld, or Steemd)- Upvote and resteem this post (The payouts of future giveaways will be dependent on the posts ability to generate revenue, this one's on futuremind ;)
- Don't even THINK about spamming this post...(Although there would be some hilarity in that...)
Use your judgement folks. Just because you don't like a comment, does not necessarily classify it as spam. Spam posts are generally comprised of posts advertising services that are obvious (or verified) scams, copies of messages that are copied and pasted over and over to fish for upvotes, but contain no relevance to the post they are commenting on, and a couple other things, but I think most of the spam comments are pretty obvious. Here is what Google says about spam. (by definition)
SPAM:
Irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients.
unwanted or intrusive advertising on the Internet.A canned meat product made mainly from ham.
send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet.
If you return with a screen shot of canned meat, I will not award you Dogecoin, lets get that right out in the open...
If you are flagging someone because you do not agree with their opinion, I will not award you Dogecoin. (Be sure to understand the difference between disagreeing with someone, and spam..This is important.)
I believe I have covered all of my bases here. If there is anything that you don't understand, please feel free to ask.
Once all 10 claims are made, I will edit the post with CLOSED in the title.
MINOR UPDATE: Please try to find fresh spam that has not been flagged yet, it's not a stated rule, but the idea is, we will spread our vote power out amongst all of the shit spam, and start working it down, collectively as a group. I hope this makes sense.
Much love,
@futuremind
And another notch on the belt ;)
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Shit bots ...
I'm dying over here brother hahaha!
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LOL well it's the truth, they are steemy piles of doge shit. Pardon my French ;)
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Come on bro this is Steemit, we use the terminology "Steemy"
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Very true though, they certainly are. Total waste of Steemit space.
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Here's another spammer on the Steemit platform biting dust ;)
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went hunting with SGG . This is a great community project and will help the platform . I received payment through DM
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Great job! Thank you for joining the hunt with us! @wolfhart
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Great initiative! I've been working with @steemflagrewards (details of their scheme here), and I can vouch for the massive amounts of spam happening right now - like thousands upon thousands of accounts all posting one word comments and upvoting each other, or the guys who post once sentence in response to a 6 month old post and then put $20 of bidbot votes on it.
In particular, some of these big rings are going to make it very hard to manually nuke the payouts due to the high numbers, so I might need some help from you all in the near future.
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We will do what we can to help. It surely will take a serious joint effort. Unfortunately, this isn't taking off as well as I hoped. Perhaps some people are afraid to flag spam for fear of retaliation? Or maybe it's the idea that Dogecoin doesn't hold much appeal with the general community here...
Either way, I am speaking with some individuals who are on board with a possible collaboration of a "pay per flag" incentive utilizing Steem. I checked out the link you provided, and did see there is a link for discord there. Tomorrow I will join and perhaps we can touch base.
Thank you for stopping by.
Hopefully, we can make a difference.
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It all helps, but it is hard to start flagging when you are newer. And with the amount of money some of these people are making, occasional retaliation can occur.
For what it's worth, I'd flag for dogecoin, and I know a bunch of people who would too.
I'm on Australian time, so depending on where you are it might be hard to catch me in discord. But @anthonyadavisii if often there, and he's the person you really need to talk to. Either way, I think it might be valuable for us to get our heads together and throw some ideas around.
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Well there is still Dogecoin to claim my friend. You are welcome to go flag a shit spam and then drop me your pub addr!
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Nice animals photo dear I vote u
...am I doing this right?
Just kidding I did the thing and then noticed I don't have a DOGE address. Plus my little flag didn't actually disappear the comment. Hopefully some folks in the @ifc will finish it off. The commenter's account just spams sunset pictures pulled from google several times a day and is already at 48 rep.
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Haha I was wondering if anyone would post that! Lol. You're welcome to go set up a doge wallet and I'll deposit to you when I get home.
Thank you for fighting spam!
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Good initiative. I like the way you think! You're making me think of setting up a doge tipper for the @steemflagrewards service. Check us out sometime! Thanks for helping to fight abuse through incentivization!
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Devil Dogs do think alike don't they? Semper Fi.
Thank you as well!
I certainly will get up with you guys!
Much love,
@futuremind
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I am totally on board with this! Do not be upset that @greetersguild and @terminallyill are going spam hunting, I am not being greedy, but promoting dual growth ;) Great initiative my brother, I CANNOT WAIT to collaborate!
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Good deal my man! The more we can do to cut down on the spam, the better reception Steemit will get in the mainstream adoption phase!!
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Nice catch!! I was wondering if anyone would catch that!
Thanks for taking a look at my blog :)
25 Doge sent.
Much love,
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I get a comment on my post about the solicitation to get 35,000+ Followers resteem, account name https://steemit.com/@a-0-0 this is his blog
and I do some things to his comments
Addres : DNdBsADPxxPuPpYdP7bzBGK2u2ywm4Nxiq
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Once again, you need to read and understand the rules. It is only one claim per user, and this giveaway clearly states it is closed. Pay attention...I just posted a new giveaway. Post this in the new giveaway. Upvote, resteem, and I will deposit the Dogecoin.
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ok sir..
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i dont hope you send me some Doge.....but i want to try true the rule you stetment..?
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https://steemit.com/giveaway/@futuremind/for-the-love-of-doge-spam-fighting-giveaway
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I didn't even put any effort, it came to me :P there goes a 100% voting weight downvote.
might add a spam hunt function to Illy and we'll get the party startedAddress as usual :) DDhyuajSeUwtcdBoVgZLNis3MqHpDNLb5J
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Nice work my friend! 25 Doge sent!
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Here's a strange one:
The guy spams the same nonsense comment over and over while the steem made off of the comments get circulated among a handful of accounts before it gets withdrawn.
Address:
DTmPiPxU5JKUKHvVgfcQdWdwtm8gwDGwG4
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That certainly is a strange one lol.
Thank you for helping fight spam.
25 Doge has been sent to the provided address.
Much love,
@futuremind
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done
my addres doge coin :
DNdBsADPxxPuPpYdP7bzBGK2u2ywm4Nxiq
thanks...
i just a joined SGG discord
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Did you read the rules???
I'm sending you the Dogecoin anyways, but I would appreciate it if you follow the rules.
Thank you for participating to fight spam.
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I credited you the doge, and explained that you didn't follow the rules. If you fail to follow the rules before the giveaway is over (which will be soon) you will not be allowed to participate in the next one. I am serious. I suggest you don't give yourself a label as a greedy person on Steemit. It's a recipe for failure.
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Sorry Sir.... I want to follow rule...and i want to upvote and resteem....Sorry Sir
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a good job and a tantalizing reward .... a job that is very helpful to my friends in steemit. hopefully many others who follow your attitude .. i'm very proud of you .. hopefully steemit stay victorious..
Thanks for sharing and good job my friend @futuremind
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Thank you for your comment, and I do agree that it is a tantalizing reward indeed! I'm proud of you too, for being an active, productive member of Steemit.
Keep up the great work! @azyref
Much love,
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thank you @futuremind
I will continue to work actively in steemit ... in the bustle of taking care of my family .. i will take the time to do activities in steemit with the best works.
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Well here ya go, blast number one. I'll DM you my Doge wallet info thought ;)
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Nice! Send that address!
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