I'm still a relative noob, but I've just had my first encounter with a spambot flooding multiple posts with a short message of support: "Simply Great Information and Presentation". However, despite seemingly liking the content, the user does not upvote the post.
At first I thought this is annoying, but no harm done. But then I looked at the user's other posting activity and saw that quite a few post authors upvoted the comment, giving the spam author rewards. I've flagged some, but I'm just a minnow, so calling on support from those with more steem power.
Also, my post https://steemit.com/census/@brendio/australian-census-online-fail recieved the comment twice, so it seems the bot has a bug.
I have the same problem but I didn't understand if we get some problems leaving there or if it doesn't matter
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If you flag the post, and enough people flag it as spam, eventually its rep will suffer and its comments will be greyed out. There's not much a single person can do, but as a community, we can #doourpart
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Still interested in buying an account?
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Yes. Skype me @brendio or send an email to [email protected].
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@cheetah, can you help? https://steemit.com/cheetah/@hamzabentour/the-fight-against-spam-and-plagiarism-continues-cheetah-bot
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The comment on this thread https://steemit.com/blockchain/@bitacer/technologies-for-21st-century-democracy#@alaynaspop/re-bitacer-technologies-for-21st-century-democracy-20160815t010109110z is stilling showing author rewards. Could someone with higher steem power please flag it. #doyourpart
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Yep I got the same bot on my lastest piece. Posted twice. This sort of stuff will eventually get weeded out easily.
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What if you mute the account? At least it won't show up for you, right?
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Yeah, that's true. I'm actually not offended as much by the comments as spam as much as the fact that the spambot is earning rewards for its actions.
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Agree. I actually just started flagging it instead. That way it's at least being blocked a little, rather than just marginalized.
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