I don't know, maybe it would. I'd love to give people the benefit of the doubt, but it's just as likely that second or third or fourth account would get open, or something else would be done to take it's place. People seem to take great pride in creating workarounds, or ways to "game" the system. I mean, it's amazing the lengths some people are prepared to go to acquire every possible scintilla of reward money.
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I find accounts all the time, that just post shit to a random made up tag so they don't show up anywhere, they won't comment anywhere except their own basically hidden post because they are in hiding, then just upvote themselves.
So that's your secret. :D
I think if you remove the self-vote, those people will just create bots or use alt accounts to vote for them. There's always a workaround. The only way past it would be some kind of KYC.
Honestly, I'm surprised that Steemit doesn't have some kind of identification system. After all, they allow the posting of NSFW content and they allow kids as young as 13 to sign up. That's not ok in the USA. I' surprised there haven't been legal issues from that as Steemit is knowingly providing a space where kids under 18 can look at porn and not have to say they're over 18. There's no verification process.
Wow, that took a tangent!
One of my many secrets.. :p
Yes people can already use services that auto vote a specific account, so whatever is done it's never going to be perfect.. lol, only way is to remove the reward system completely then they all leave. haha
Problem is, it will still be on the blockchain, anyone can just post stuff to it and it will show up here, no way to police it really, except for flagging it. As far as I know the NSFW feature is fairly new and it's purely just a front end feature of steemit, nothing to do with the blockchain itself, so it just hides anything tagged with that here. I suppose that is at least something good.
Obviously you've got some good secrets. We all got killed this week. I thought I was doing really well, but apparently not. That or the whole thing was depressed this week. Oh, well. Fight goes on.
SC has been really busy this week.
What type of things are you mainly reporting anyway?
I stick with just plagiarism or photo's.
Those are both great ones, and fairly easy to spot. photography tag abuse is easy too. I mean, the ones where they don't even put a photo? Come on! :P It kinda depends on what I see as I surf. I also get comment spammers sometimes. Although that one is harder if they only do 8 crappy comments per day.
Sorry for hijacking your post, @glenalbrethsen!
I don't think @glenalbrethsen will mind, he hates all the abuse too.. lol
Ok my advice....
Plagiarism gets most priority.
Photos get done, but they get backlogged easy since they are just super easy to find.
Avoid tag abuse, they gets hundreds a day, you only get 25% of the reward and they least priority, they pretty much never get done, it's a waste of time. lol
Yeah I do a few comment spammers, but only when I see them.
Last tip, remember to check the transfers because quite often they transfer to other accounts, that are also committing steemit crimes ;)
Hey, man! Hijack away! Rewards for everyone for just talking to one another for a bit. :)