Today I'm a bit pissed off with Steemit.
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I just do not understand how there are people who can generate a number of valuable votes in an almost magical way and by practically doing nothing...
I will explain you what I’ve seen today.
As a runner, the "running" tag is one of the most recurred by my side here in steemit and at least a couple of times a day I usually take a look or contribute by commenting or posting on the subject.
Today I was browsing the new posts published in that subject and I had a look on one that appeared to be familiar to me.
The post was simply a video of what seemed to be a person running at a full speed on the surface of a lake ...
The video is nothing outstanding and you can easily understand that there is some trick in there, similar videos have been made on the topic and, specifically this one you can easily find it on youtube Walk on water , to remark also that it is quite old (uploaded on youtube in 2010).
Putting aside that the steemit colleague who uploaded the post did not name neither source nor author, what really shocked me is that this is not the first time he has published it.
Actually, I was curious to know if the person who published it was or not a runner and then follow him or not consequently, so I went straight to his blog and noted that the same article was published repeatedly and almost automatically by the same author, exactly the same, without any additional, nothing more nothing less, exactly equal.
As I said, almost automatically, almost once a week since long, this friend publishes the same "shit" and gets a good $ for the post every time !!!
Even worse, I see that the guy is dedicated to perform the same operation with more low quality post, same thing every week, there is no value, no message, nothing changes !!!! . Just collect $!
To tell you the truth, I do not know how to take it but I think it is an insult for the whole Steemit community.
Personally, I think it is an abuse and a shame.
This kind of behavior totally degrades the platform and it is really a risk for the proper development of steemit as a serious content platform.
I’m launching a couple of questions:
- What are the tools that steemit has in order to detect and fight against these low value behavior?
- What should we do as steemit users ?
Sorry but I am really worried about.
P.S: I have published this post in Spanish as well so it reaches more people, please do not detect it as something already published.
The quality, original content in Steemit is totally obscured by all the shit and it's making me lose interest. I reckon it would take about 15 minutes to write a script that submits a post every hour, and which contains nothing more than an embedded youtube video picked at random - these kind of junk posts drive me nuts!!!
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Dear @runtime,
I know that feeling very well, believe me.
Anyway, we have to fight against for the sake of the platform.
Keep doing good running post man!
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You would have to look a little closer at who is upvoting those posts. It's possible it is someone with multiple accounts upvoting themselves. Downvoting is the only immediate remedy but it would probably have to be brought to the attention of a whale (or a large enough group of people) for it to have too much effect.
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Well, I don't know if it's a good Idea. question, is downvoting completely anonymous? if not, maybe you are putting yourself in risk, isn't it?
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Everything is on the blockchain and nothing is completely anonymous when it somes to steemit but disagreement about awards is one of the valid reasons given for a downvote. If no one is willing to do that then the problem will continue. But I do understand the concern, particularly if the person in question has a much higher reputation/steem balance. That's the other side of the equation though. The more you are willing to invest in Steem power, the more influence you have.
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The best will be to expose the situation to @steemcleaners I guess
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Done!
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Keep calling it out, it's the only way this place will be cleaned off the leaches and scammers :(
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