Even though we have a handful of things to counter and fight spam and spammers, it's actually weird that we haven't seen anything major from Steemit inc if you ask me. On the other hand, I don't see much from them at all, except for some "super-cool-amazing-SMT-updates" and whatever.. Sigh.
I wrote a post several months ago. Now, I don't know how to make it happen, or if it would be possible for that matter, but I did get an upvote from Dan on the post... So I guess he agreed with something of the things I said at least.
What I was looking for, or what I was trying to suggest, was some form of -rep and a way to report people if they were repeat-spammers. My suggestion was not only bound to Steemit though, I would've loved to see the same "report-thing" implemented on Steem.chat and Discord too. For all the spammers who simply send you direct messages with urls for their articles.
Upvote-beggars are disgusting... And I've been trying to teach newcomers how to approach Steemit and how to behave.. But it's impossible to teach everyone.
Oh btw.
"Wow... good post" ;)
Are you using Steem Plus, because the Sincerity Database is super cool. In which by the way you are surprisingly 100% human. That is pretty amazing, because last time I checked I was human too, but according to the database I'm 1.7% bot.
How can you know How much bot you are, wanna know.
I see some some soam from newbies that is not bad intended, they attach they think it is not bad seen. So I just point out, we must also be tolerant until people learn especually newcomers. Those who know better, they teach. It is on us too. Then there is obvious blatant and sometimes malicious spams.
Of course my dear friend, I only flag/report the blatantly ill intended. The rest, I try to educate... sometimes I say a funny, but I don't assume they are "evil".
Nope. I'm not using Steem Plus. I've heard about it before but never looked into it. 100% human you say? - Well, that's what I'm hoping for... :D
Edit:
The asapers use it though.
Well as much as I share your skepticism for the upcoming updates. They have been promised since before Korea had nukes after all. If, and I'm saying If we implement Hive/Communities we could do something of the sort.
Accounts could be labeled Spammy Spammers and the community could render them inert. Meaning, they could post, but not make any money. Which is both cool and scary.
Cool and scary, yeah. I agree, but I also think it's necessary to actually punish spammers in some way so they learn. I probably get 2-3 messages on Discord each day, and all of them are from upvote-beggars.
I hate it. I tried, for a very, very long time, to reason with these people. To tell them how to behave and approach Steemit. I did everything I could to help them. To teach them... And it was all for nothing.
Nowadays, I ignore most of my messages, but that means that I'll actually miss out on something good or genuine too occasionally.
However, now I'm talking more about off-Steemit than on-Steemit. The spammy comments I get on my articles are boring and annoying too obviously, but I don't get as many comments nowadays as I got a few months back, so I'm okay with them.. Well, I don't have any problems to just ignore them.