We have all been there. You post and within a nanosecond the comments arrive...
Amazing post, so informative!
I follow you now!
Wow, incredible photos!!
But they haven't looked at the post. Even worse they don't even vote it. Instead they are just looking for comment upvotes. If you try and reason with them they deny it, often offering up the flimsiest excuses about voting power or vote value.
It inspired a little animation!
I thought this would be a handy response to the worst offender's that I flag/downvote.
If you like it, please, feel free to download and use it too!!
HAHAHAHA OMG!
I know stickmen can be violent, but holy moses I was not expecting a flag through the head. I legitimately laughed so hard it's taken me a couple of seconds to calm down to write this.
The zoom in is the very best part... oh, this whole thing is just so great.
Ah, just so you know I'll be voting on the 30min mark.. but I wanted to comment straight away because it's the biggest laugh I've had all week. I've watched it 4 times already.
Thanks for allowing everyone else to use it... I only get the occasional rude jerk, but I seriously can't wait for the next one now...
Lol, no worries mate! Good comments are of course the exception! Might not have been so snappy an animation lol if I had shoed that in!
btw, you might get more curation if you vote at the 15 minutes mark! It's a funny thing the reward curve for curation, if you wait till 30 most people have voted before you and you get next to nothing!!
Arrrgh. Really? I've always wondered about that.. I thought the 15 minute mark was coming in after the next hardfork... I honestly hate waiting 30 minutes... it hurts my soul.
Hehe, in that case don't wait!! The 15 minute thing was bought in after one of the last ones I think. Can't remember which one!!
100% for the BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Hilarious and useful in just one goddamn post. At this point it's not just the horse-wombles giving you the winky eye... Hey.
Thank you so much for being a great comment-guy... I honestly really do appreciate your help with this sort of confusing Steem stuff.
Well if you ever have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Preferably in discord as the fancy new steemit chat makes my Chromebook run out of memory and crash!
Gotta love the horse-wombles!! :0D
I had to click the upvote button for this response even though my upvote is worth little. I have been wondering all along the best time to upvote a post. Thanks for this, now I know better.
It's raw and it says its, I want to use it.
Lots of spam now and it will just continue
Thank you for allowing us to use it @ meesterboom
Nice one Dude,
This is my favourite comment recieved in the last week or so.....
WTF!? 😂
And guess what? No vote. 😃
Aw thats a bugger and a half! If there had been a vote that would have been an amazing follow worthy upvotey comment winner!
Absolutely.
Original, weird and completely irrelevant!
I conqor. Absolutely original.
resteemed!
if this doesn't sink in don't know what would anymore
at least you weren't thrown a " you already have much SP so am saving my vote for others"
seriously? if you want an up you should learn to cast one first
what are we ? - goats to milk?
That is quite the one isn't it. Imagine even attempting to justify it that way. Outrageous.
Hehe, goats to milk!!
yes!
it gets to my nerves hmp!
haha
am outta here ... gotta run ..
see ya later chico!
Thank you for posting @meesterboom.
Lovely illustration.....a bit wicked.
The cheeky lad communicates common sense again.
You are reeling them in. ^__^
Wishing you and your family a lovely evening.
Cheers.
A tiny bit wicked! I put the wink in for you. I almost forgot it!
How you have a great evening too!!
hahahhahahhahahahahhaha
OH YES!!!!!
SO FUCKING GOOD!
This is why I should be checking your posts more often. Now its true I give you an auto 100% every post you make even if I don't check for 2 weeks and I am one of your highest supporters. Yet THIS is exactly why!
Great job, SteemON!
You do do!! You are an awesome dude!!
Maximum steem on!!
Full Steem Ahead BoomTastic Friend!
There is only one way to go and that is Full STEEM Ahead!!! :OD
Its the for sure the awesome way anyway!
Full Steem Ahead to SteemFinity and Beyond!
SteemFinity!! HAhah!!! YEAH!
Yea!
You haven't seen this yet?
Been using it for a couple months, doubt I am the first ever to think of it but first I heard of.
Is there a slow-mo button? I'm a slow reader, had to watch it 3 times to know what they said 😂😭
Lol, I have to max out the speech bubbles at second and a half or it gets too long!
Ahh! makes sense :P
I LOVE IT!!!
In a way, it feels like the spiritual successor of the "Nice Post" one. My, my, my... how your animation has evolved, dudeskie! I've been a fan from the very start, and I'm becoming even more impressed with every new animation you put out. This one is definitely a new favorite!
Oh you know we have been through many a battle against these new breed of cretins, bro-hammer. For sure, we have not yet seen the final evolution of these SpamFarmers, but trust that we would be side-by-side as we face this threat.
Side by side indeed!!! Clashing our swords on our shields and roaring our defiance at the enemy!!!
Here, I am trying to get back into doing them. I forgot how much I liked it!
Ahem! There is one other thing that you have been forgetting to do hmm?
There is? Oh no, is it the portmanteausdays? I was getting round to it! I have been run off my feet!!
Hmm? Oh! That wasn't what I was referring to here but I'm glad that it served as a reminder hahahaha!!! Completely accidental, bro-rangutan! As for what I was really referring to... it's your cooking posts, dad-muffin!!
Hehe, oh the cooking!!! Man, I love cooking. Such effort involved in those posts. I think I exhausted almost every groovy recipe in my repertoire!
I made an amazing chilli powder last night!
Haha! I'm sure one of these days you'll catch a glint in your eye and surprise us all! I bet that it really takes quite a lot from you, so when I get my own oven I'll be sure to help lighten up your load, bro-ven!
After reading the post I just knew all the comments would be people sacrastically making comments fishing for votes.
Here's a tip to all newbies here:
Only comment if you have something meaningful to say. If you just spam "very nice", you won't get paid, you won't learn anything new, you won't contribute anything to the conversation. On the other hand, if you find people you like, comment only of you have something to say you will get paid(and rightfully so!), contribute to the convesation and have an overall pleasant experience with steemit!
Thanks because I am brand new and the last thing I want to be is labeled a spammer...LMBO! There's alot to learn about this community. I definitely want to participate the right way.
There we go, I couldnt put it better myself! :O)
LOL in one ear, out the other, as my mum always says.
Its a good way to see it!
I've done two anti spam animations so far myself, here's the second one:
Because great minds think alike.
Hehe, splendidly done, great minds indeed! I have actually done a series of em! My last one was about the annoying, may I resteem this nonsense that went on for a while!
Lol, YES YES and again YES.
So many comments hardly relate to the content at all. And if they do, sometimes in an utterly absurd way. Probably I will use your animation from time to time. THX!
Yo hope you do get the chance to use it!! I love a good comment and it's just so slitting to hat l have to plough through rubbish to get to them!
Ha! Downloaded. This makes me want to flag more spammy comments...
Wayhay, that's the stuff! At least it's not as if you will have to hunt hard lol!
@meesterboom your post is very true,a steemit user commented on my post someday ago and she did not read my post, instead she was talking of point,I take is as point of duty to carefully read post if worthy of my vote I vote, if not I don't,but I ensure that I comment andvote while am at it.
It is dashed annoying. I used to upvote all my comments and now I have to check as you say. Grrr
I get this one all the time.
"Amazing post, so informative!
I follow you now!
Much, incredible photos!!
I show you my penis. You send vag!!!"
It's weird because the only people who comment on my blog are family members.
You have a very special family! Now, if I show you my penis...
I think there are some who won't ever get it. I suppose if you think that a flippant two word comment made within seconds of the post going live is going to be received as genuine then you're beyond receiving intelligent discourse. I only get a few like that, and ignore, or warn, but I can imagine you see more than your fair share of them. Still a flag through the eye animation has to be a fairly coherent warning. If only they bothered to look.
Indeed, if only they bothered to look. I half did this so I can just paste it in the reply to them. Hehe, a picture paints a thousand words!
And it would make the perfect comment reply for such a moment as that. Here , have a flag... (animation and all).
I can't wait :0D
Nor can the audience :D
Yeah! you're right my friend.I agree with you.I want say that all steemit community people,First of all read the post and try to understand the post, then understand it beautifully with your comments.
Yes, absolutely right!
Exactly those are the comments that are seen today in all post. Your animation was comic. (Thanks for sharing i love it)LOL
Cheers mate!!! They do get a bit tiresome!
That's awesome! Top job, sir.
Cheers dude! :0D
Yeah i've seen this a lot -.-
Hehe, yep. Seen that so many times. The worst thing is that people occasionally upvote it so they continue to do it
I don't agree with the impaling. Now, if we could work in a some high voltage...
I will keep that in mind for the next one ;0)
Very good @meesterboom now can you track them all down and solve this problem. Sharpen up those flags :)
I will go round the doors right now!! :0)
Screw the spammers. But I feel bad for 5% of people who really meant what they say: Amazing post, thanks for sharing, I loved it.
Maybe they were in hurry :(
There probably are some, but yeah. 95% are spam so get it up them!
I already missed this animated character. They are great dear friend @meesterboom nothing expresses more than an image congratulations
I wish you a beautiful afternoon.
Hehe, I have seen this one, its great isnt it!
Its been a while since I did an animation, I had missed them! Cheers mate!
Super@meesterboom to the rescue haha
Lol, he can only try despite being one man!!
But your @meesterboom if you cant do it then no one can lol
How did you know thats what I tell myself every morning!! :O)
You wear your undies on top of your jeans, just wish you would wear clean ones haha
I bet you do ;0)
I love your facet as an artist, I did not think you were so good ;)
hehe, I have many facets! :OD
I think when the flag hit the guy he should have said "Wow. Beautiful pictures." That would have indicated that he didn't even notice that he got hit in the head on account of the fact that he was too busy spamming.
This is definitely how it works though.
Ha, that is a very good idea!!
This is so true, spammer comments are like a cowboy ready to shoot a bullet. Also, I could not stop myself laughing watching your animation!
Hehe, I had a giggle myself when I finished it and got to see it all! cheers!
Another fantastic animation by @meesterboom. It quite possibly is my favorite yet. Well done.
I hate the fact I have to manage who comments versus who votes. It is a waste of time, but even worse is to upvote the offenders--then they are emboldened and do it even more. May they all be poked through the head with a flag.
Aw shucks, thank you. I was a bit out of practice but it all came flooding back :O)
Hahahahhaha...I simply ignore those kind of comments...and there are lot of those 😉. Great gifs btw!
Ignoring works, I like to try and remove their did upvote reward usually and teach them a lesson here!
I did a post yesterday with some etiquette (the 5 C's) for newbies and I love @aldentan's addition:
Cunt - don't be one.
Oh that's a fantastic addition!! I just went and looked. I have been lax today and yesterday but catching up now!
It's very hard to remember everyone every day. I often get behind :-(
Same here, I have actually been going through my following list and whirling it down a bit every now and then. I just want to see the people I like!
I keep MEANING to do that, but haven't quite got there yet.
It's hard, you keep thinking, but what if I miss something!!
Guess what I saw few days ago.
Someone was clearly wailing over the death of her colleague and bam Someone dropped a comment saying he was cute.
That was the weirdest spam I have seen.
Many peeps just drop by the comment box just for comment upvote.
Had to download the animation. It is really nice.
Oh, I have seen that more than once. It makes me quite furious actually. Cheers! I hope you get to use it!
Yup, happens quite a bit.
Also I noticed some of this kinds of comments get upvoted quite a bit - makes me wonder if there is a trail of other steemians that group and follow each other upvoting each others' comments... My hope is they will eventually get weeded out. Though after my experience with flagging for plagiarism and consequential mass-downvote by the trail of spammers I suggest do reporting these comments to the cleaners.
But I hear ya - happened in my neck of the woods too.
The cleaners is definitely a good idea for the serial ones. I have reported the ones where when you visit their profile is just a sea of copy paste spam comments.
That is the annoying thing, that it pays off for them because they get occasional upvotes
Agree!
There's always going to be a percentage of people that freeload. I guess if we all just do our job by curating (and reporting when necessary) this will keep them to the minimum.
Absolutely!! The majority are actually good bunch!
lol, I'm afraid to comment now lest I get a flag thru my head!
Please sir, not the flag!!
Nooooooooooooo!
Right through the head!!! Boom!!
Hehe, milady I can honestly say that nothing you could do would ever make me flag you!! ;0)
Even if/when I post a video of me doing the elephant trumpet?! lol
Haha!!! Oh my word. That would even get a resteem!!!
Never read comments from people who don't even have a profile pic. These are the worst offenders.
This is actually the third article i am reading about comment spam, looks like the steemit community is getting vocal about it. And why shouldn't they? It is really disrespectful towards the author who did some work on his post.
They don't care, the get money for no effort mentality. You are right, I have seen a few myself. I am glad and hope that it galvanises prior to fight back a bit more!
Wow, you just flagged that guy and you did it with a smile on your face. Stone cold, man. I'm guessing it gets easier the more people you flag?
It was only a 2 percenter :0) but yeah, it does get easier. It's easier if you think of it as a downvote
That's a good tip. Thanks. Well, I'm off to practice my downvoting now. Should be a good day!
The beginning part with wooden stick reminded of those places where you take a number and then when the representative hits your number and it is your turn! Little did this unsuspecting guy know!
P.S. The wink at the end was classic!!
I do love the wink!
Hehe, now that you mention it, it reminds me of it too!
I can just imagine the Lady at the other just being like “nexttttt” and tapping her fingers at any delay
I love the animation but haven't downloaded it yet, yeah there are people that spam for comment upvotes but most that do that are newbies and most really need to be re-orientated about the community as a whole, please lets just not flag them but firstly try to educate them, some came in with the wrong mentality and some others I beleive are operating multiple accounts and all they are hungry for are upvotes, please how do we differentiate novices from educated spammers? thanks for sharing.
That is very true. I do attempt to engage with the people who do it. Don't worry. I rarely just flag without thinking about it. I often warn them about how their behaviour reflects on them first, then I see what they say
ok, that's greatman
Amazing post, thanks for sharing, I loved it!
But I mean it!!! :(((
Thats ok, I know you do :O)
Haha, talk about epic. But you forgot the lines "I follow you, you follow me back" or "I follow you, you check my post, help me with ideas and resteem if you like it"
If someone comments on my posts, first thing I do is see if they even upvoted, before I reply (without an upvote). Piss on them spammers. I will gladly use your gif. Love that :-) I wonder how many of us will be (spamming) that, lol.
I do exactly the same thing! Up them!
HEhe, I think I did a follow me I follow you type one before. I didnt wan to get repetitive! :O)
That would be grand if it was used with abandon!
Lol yeah true. Now that I have been playing around with my animation program, I may try to come up with some. Ohhh the ideas are endless. :-)
Oh yeah, go for it!! Would love to see!
Oh it will be posted for sure, soon as I come up with a good one. Hopefully good as the ones I see posted in comments, lol.
Is that a magic basket? How did that giant flag fit in there?
I must know...
It has to be big. It's the magic basket I keep all my broken crypto dreams in!!
When someone comment "nice post", is it nice to mute them?😎
I think it's perfectly nice!!
OK, let's be nice :-)
This is an awesome animation! I think the red flag through the head is what sold me! LOL
I like a bit of cartoon violence!
HAHA! love it! I dont have enough steem power to attract alot of spammers, but i hope one day ill be able to use it ;-)
It won't be long before you are seeing them! ;0)
lol at your animation! very creative 😂👌
Cheers mate! It's been a while, had to keep my practice in :0)
Should've used the hammer after you pegged them through the head....I still like my hammer more thank you very much!
I forgot about the hammer actually. Will have to render that for next time :0)
Yeah, uncle boom you are right, All the Content creators should keep in mind that they will not upvote the comments which are coming just after you post something, Without even reading what message a user is trying to give in an article which takes a lot of his time to write it.
Good step, i'm with you.
Exactly. Comments are not just automatically upvoted expectedly if it's obvious outdoor haven't read anything!
The author can judge who is commenting according to the post and who is not.
@meesterboom that is brutally funny and useful GIF! The idea of your post is perfect. Today I "gifted" somebody with a flag for the first time because somebody else put a lot of effort to write a post, a really good post and there is this guy who decided to put a direct link to his post in the comments section. I wish I read your post earlier, because I would definitely show this guy your memorable gif. It does not matter what value your vote has, all it matters is to support the stories you like, and try to become part of the community. I believe that if you are dedicated here, the value will come with the time. Nothing is free and will never be free. At least those are my principles. The “vote value” excuse is quite shitty (Pardon me for the French). Everybody who wants to become a real steamian and want to contribute has value, therefore, it does not matter whether it is little or large. I have registered here in June 2017. I was inactive until few weeks ago due to numerous reasons. The most important one was that I became a father and did not have the time to write here, but now step by step I find the time because I want to be more active around here and I like it. When I "activated" myself I read all FAQs and therefore I try to be a good steamian and follow the rules of the community. The people who do not follow those rules will never be accepted here because they show no respect to all of us who do and they deserve a little red FLAG in the head.
Ah the link dropping, I hate that too. That is the thing, its not hard to try and be a good steemian but these people just dont care!
An earlier one I did :O)
In deed it is not hard. Well I must say I became a fan of your imagination and in general of your writing. I will make sure to enjoy using those gifs and even I am not here from a long time I somehow feel it will not be so hard to find where to use them.
very nice information thanks for sharing with us... follow me
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I don't really get it. I can understand commenting to get a little money, but at least they would read them and actually try to form some kind of opinion about the post or add something to it ^^. This post is so accurate though lol.
MAn, I totally agree. if you put a relevant comment you can actually attract some real money! Just daft thinking on their part