I can not stand more with the SPAM in the comments, so from today I will give a flag to all comments that are not related to what I wrote in the post.
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The truth is that before I only muted the users but it has already become something massive in Steemit and, like many others that have already started, I also want to do something because I can not stand it anymore. For now, the only thing I can do, and I think that is the only thing that really can be done in Steemit, is to flag the comments that are SPAM.
And I'm not only going to give a flag to the short comments but also those other long but meaningless comments that use two or three words of the publication to make you believe that someone has read it ... they seem more made by an Artificial Intelligence than by a Human, really meaningless things most of the time, for example this comment in a Steepshot publication (photo) about a chocolate that a friend gave me.
You're gonna be busy man, because with the growth of Steemit and with that more users, I think it will only get worse with all those SHIT, and copy-paste-comments. Still I totally agree with your decision. Good luck.
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hahahaha I know XD but I will flag just those in my posts and if it become massive as you say we will see ... with -5% can flag a lot of comments ;) adn do not write so much anyway
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90% of comments are spam, there are also a ton of circlej89rk operations on here where cops upvote each other with persona management/sybil traffic.
Check my blog, I will continue to investigate.
But if the fbi came into steemit in late 2016, spent a handful of the confiscated coins from the silk road, and bought enough coin so that any of their agents who set up on here have 60+ rep within a week and 1000 SP on day one, which is what it looks like happened, then, well this is just a shitshow, and EOS will be too.
Check out all the comments on something like The Conscious Resistance, or @kennyskitchen or @suzie3d, all fake comments, all fake users.
Check out my upvotes and comments over the past 2 weeks as I have intensified my investigations, 90% of my comments are from obvious shell/shill users who simply appear 0% human.
Then there is the new feed, which is 99% spam trying to appear like some tween fisherman from thailand just got his first account on the internet. Sad thing is that guy is probably out there but we'll never meet him due to all the static from probably state-sponsored subversion.
The steemit concept is one TPTB do NOT want to see happen, as then they can't control history and their agents cannot operate without being questioned.
Further study of my blog will be rewarded. Upvoted followed.
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This is a very interesting idea and I will take a look for sure in all this you talk about in your comment. I will not be so surprised if you find out all this to be true 100% honestly speaking. They do not like free speech or anything like it!
Thanks a lot for sharing, also following you now.
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Styles of Clothing
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An Unfriendly Place
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I flagged spammers before and I make heavy use of the Steemcleaner's reporting form:
https://steemcleaners.org/abuse-report/
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How to Ride the Subway in Beijing
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btw. Not long ago I wrote about the bot army and - that answer is still open - if they are the cause fo the bandwidth problem.
https://steemit.com/steem/@lennstar/are-the-bandwith-problems-caused-by-the-bot-army
If you get followed by one of those, you will get a horde of other spam followers, too
a-0-0
a-0-0-0-0
a-0-0-0-1abokina
a-0-0-0-a
a-0-1
a-0-labon
a-0-mita
a-0-momo
a-2
a-3
a-7
a-a-0
a-a-0-tonyteddie
a-a-a
a-a-a-a
yes, tahts just he start of the list
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Sh*t!!!
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Lol..::goes to my followers and sees those right away:: Yay for me! Should I mute them?
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I don't think that helps ;) They will still follow you. Just look at those stats:
Details of @a-0-0 account:
Account created: 28.31 days ago
Reputation: -51.072
Steem Power: 75.175 SP (30.194 + 47.981 - 3.000)
Followers: 16329
Follows: 244762
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Awesome 😑, oh well at least I know now! Lol
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Spam is the meaning of life and friendship. Thank you for this lovely post!
Hahahaha
Flag them all!
All time I receive that kind of comments, but I've more patience (for now, maybe because I'm newer here). The people is only looking for attention, and nobody stops to read anything.
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I got exited when reading this part.... OMG! the first one!! XD hahahahaha believe me, you have more patience just because of that .. you will get tired of it pretty soon, they are a lot atm
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I've run into a lot of "humanoids" since yesterday. I still do not flag them hahaha
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You can also leave the comment in spanish ;) That was a surprise!
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Lo había hecho así, pero después leer que todos (hispanohablantes incluidos) te hablaban en inglés lo cambié. Ya lo se para la próxima :)
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The world Cup Football Final
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I agree. Soon it will turn into Facebook and have millions of ads springing up everywhere. NO THANKS!
I get them every once in a while too. Nothing to do with the article so you know they haven't even taken the time to read our great masterpieces!
"Upvote me" does not constitute a comment.
Thanks for sharing.
...upvoted and resteemed.
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This are the worst and the majority part of the time they even did not upvote your post (read the post, what is that?)
Thanks for the up and re-steem!
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Yeah! Totally!
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I started to flag spam comments some days ago. At first I started to give a "friendly advice" to the spammers, but now I'm really tired and also angry, because I noticed also an increase of people who wrote spam comments, don't upvote the post but sure, they upvote their own spam comments! Enough is enough! :(
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This are the worst and also sometimes the wirte "I upped and re-steemed your post do the same with mine" and when you check is not true. It is really something we should fight with what we can, in this case, the flag! I was like you, commenting and trying to be nice but ... is too much!
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I flag em too
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The spam is pretty out of control. Sometimes it is hard though to tell if a user is actually writing a spam comment or if English just isn't their first language and they are struggling. I will admit some are pretty obvious though :) -@bozz
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Yes, that happens to me too sometimes but then I check the profile and comments from the user to see I am not making a mistake or something ;)
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Great thinking! If we all did a little more to fight the spam, it might not be so bad. Still tasty though!
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follow4follow sir? vote4vote sir?
Please sir help me sir. Thank you sir 😛
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hahahahahahaha yes, something like this. @nelyp just 15% of a flag will hide all that sh*t and you get visited so often for this spammers!
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Since I'm new here, at the beginning I was really excited to be receiving a comment at all. LOL. After a couple days though.. and a couple of comments saying "Good post brother" (I am female) I decided to stop upvoting them and replying. Like you, although I'm sure its on a much smaller scale , it seems Im getting some comments that seem longer and thought out but they really have nothing to do with my post (which I dont know what to do with, ignore it?..) I read somewhere on Steemit that spammers usually have a 25% upvote success rate, which is a decent chance I suppose so that's why they continue to do it.
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yes, it happens and not only if you are newbie ;)
Do not reply or upvote anyhting you think could be a SPAM, I think you should not flag also atm because you do not have so much SteemPower, means you should save your bandwith for posting and comment around better.
Btw you got a new follower :)
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Thanks! I look forward to your posts too! Yeah, I’m not really the flagging type in real life so I don’t think I’ll ever do it here! I’m very non confrontational lol! (🙈) the bandwidth issue was defintely scary the first time i encountered it (thought I was being banned or something 😂) man, there is so much to learn here! Anyways.. back to learning for me!
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hehehe I know, it is kind of strange but it is also to fight a bit the SPAM so people can not create a lot of new accounts and spam the network without the need to buy Steem Power for to do it.
and you will learn, it just take a bit of time. Btw, do not hesitate to ask if you have any question.
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I think I’ll take you up on that sometime, thank you!
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"Btw, do not hesitate to ask if you have any question."
Now this is what I believe the Steemit community is all about...or should be.
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Is how it should be and (at least for me and many others I know) how it is actually ;)
Steem-on!
Pd: also for you, if any questions now you know :)
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Beutiful photografy of spam tin deer friend. Follow my back
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hahahahahahahaha I just hunted it in the woods behind my house and took a photo with my samPhone XXX
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Where it all began:
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hahahahahahahaha
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Lol, I was actually thinking the same.
Today I wrote a post with questions about curation. And someone answered with informing about his contest 😩😳
Most frustrating is that I did get this crappy answer, but so far no one answered for real.
Now my question for you (also others) is what do you do with all other scams?
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What do you mean with other scams?
I know the feeling and many more here on Steemit, you are not alone my friend!
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With other scams I mean people that are kind of cheating. Some are very obvious. Like I saw a guy that wrote 6 days in a row an identical comment below his own post. That were the only 6 comments and he gave them all his own upvote. He repeated this with more of his posts. So he probably earned a nice amount of real money.
I think there are more of these kind of things. Which were not mentioned in a white paper. And in the this could be a very valid reason to scare off new users.
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Well, yes they are some of this around ...
There is so much not mentioned in the WP my friend, sooo much! ;) People should not be scare about it but they should learn that as a community we can do something about it. Steem is still 2 years old only, look what happens with BTC still after more than 5 years ;)
I think we need to give a bit of time and of course, a lot of education and learning.
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You are right that it will probably take some time. And scammers can be found every where.
Question is if it will ever work near perfect? If not steemit will probably die in the end and get replaced by a similar platform that works even better.
For now I think this is one of the best and most fun ways to learn something about crypto.
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You got the point! ;)
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I haven't gotten as far as flagging them, but I guess I'm not big enough to get many. Don't get me wrong, I get at least one on each of my posts, which is still very annoying. I just completely ignore them and only reply/vote on the comments that are actually real.
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I was doing the same, mute and ignore them, until started to be 3 or more spammers (and it does not mean I am too big also :P )
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I don't think so
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I could show you that is not a "fight against windmills" if I flag your comment just at 7% ... I can take out the 0.04 cent rewards you had give yourself with your upvote ;)
Btw, will be just in my posts, I will not be going around flagging people, is not my idea.
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👍
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