I think as long as the value of STEEM is low, resource credits are keeping spam lower than it was. It takes some established spam farms, with some RCs spread out among each account, to effectively get off the ground. Most can't survive.
However, that's not to say spam is completely gone, but it is much better, in my opinion then it was before.
However, as some are noting, it has done so at the cost of the new user, who doesn't immediately find a way through delegations, investing or otherwise powering up to raise the effective level of RCs. So, it's been a double edged sword, and at a cost to actual legit accounts.
What will be interesting to see is, how quickly the activity in dormant spam accounts where the SP delegation has yet to be removed will return as the price of STEEM rises. It will also be interesting to see how quickly Steemit Inc acts in their removal of delegations to said accounts after they revive.
The fact that Steemit has decided to remove the delegations from proven spammers, scammers and plagiarists is actually a step in a more effective direction, and will probably be the cause of reducing spam on the blockchain, even if it means those spammers will continue to find ways to open new accounts.
It would be nice if we could move to some form of Know Your Customer/Client so alt accounts could be immediately traced to the main account. I don't know how that would work without some folks feeling their privacy was being invaded, but I've yet to figure out what good someone will actually do for the blockchain by opening up hundreds of alt accounts. I know what they hope to do. I don't know how it really helps others.
it would be nice to get to a point where we can actually identify legit users vs. bots or alt accounts meant to form some flavor of farm. It would also be nice to then be able to up the RCs to the legit users so they can function until they have enough on their own. By knocking down spam, we've effectively cut off the new users ability to do anything, and since they can't really do anything, they can't really complain about it effectively, so then most people think everything is just fine when there's a growing, ongoing issue that will need to be resolved at some point, rather than being oblivious to it or ignoring it.
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Oh I see so that's how you do the musing answers. So the link to the musing answer should be removed too? Or can I just leave it in and it still won't be considered as a duplicate?
I don't know how @abh12345 will treat the link. A while back when other apps like partiko started leaving their little "using partiko" blurbs that he adjusted the character length count for it. I'm not sure how that's happening now.
I've been removing it simply because no one's going to go to musing to read my comment if they're already reading it on Steemit, and since I didn't write the link, it's not really my CL.
So, I don't know if there's a right or wrong way here. Maybe Asher will provide a preference. Otherwise, I say, do what you feel best. That's what I've been doing. :)
Either way, somehow it's not being counted as a duplicate when Asher goes to pull the list. I've been keeping track of total comments for a long time, and most weeks, we're either dead on, or within a couple of comments of each other.
I think because the answer written on Musing generates a comment, but only as a link on STEEM, it doesn't duplicate even though you're copying and pasting the words from your answer on Musing. So, as long as you don't create a new comment, there won't be a duplicate, even if the link is left.
Yeah the Musing approach is good, you need to be rewarded for those comments!
A link/URL not relating to Partiko and a few others that choose to add their link on every reply will not be excluded in the CL count. So if you ever fancy bumping up your total... :)
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I think as long as the value of STEEM is low, resource credits are keeping spam lower than it was. It takes some established spam farms, with some RCs spread out among each account, to effectively get off the ground. Most can't survive.
However, that's not to say spam is completely gone, but it is much better, in my opinion then it was before.
However, as some are noting, it has done so at the cost of the new user, who doesn't immediately find a way through delegations, investing or otherwise powering up to raise the effective level of RCs. So, it's been a double edged sword, and at a cost to actual legit accounts.
What will be interesting to see is, how quickly the activity in dormant spam accounts where the SP delegation has yet to be removed will return as the price of STEEM rises. It will also be interesting to see how quickly Steemit Inc acts in their removal of delegations to said accounts after they revive.
The fact that Steemit has decided to remove the delegations from proven spammers, scammers and plagiarists is actually a step in a more effective direction, and will probably be the cause of reducing spam on the blockchain, even if it means those spammers will continue to find ways to open new accounts.
It would be nice if we could move to some form of Know Your Customer/Client so alt accounts could be immediately traced to the main account. I don't know how that would work without some folks feeling their privacy was being invaded, but I've yet to figure out what good someone will actually do for the blockchain by opening up hundreds of alt accounts. I know what they hope to do. I don't know how it really helps others.
it would be nice to get to a point where we can actually identify legit users vs. bots or alt accounts meant to form some flavor of farm. It would also be nice to then be able to up the RCs to the legit users so they can function until they have enough on their own. By knocking down spam, we've effectively cut off the new users ability to do anything, and since they can't really do anything, they can't really complain about it effectively, so then most people think everything is just fine when there's a growing, ongoing issue that will need to be resolved at some point, rather than being oblivious to it or ignoring it.
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Oh I see so that's how you do the musing answers. So the link to the musing answer should be removed too? Or can I just leave it in and it still won't be considered as a duplicate?
Hey, @artgirl.
I don't know how @abh12345 will treat the link. A while back when other apps like partiko started leaving their little "using partiko" blurbs that he adjusted the character length count for it. I'm not sure how that's happening now.
I've been removing it simply because no one's going to go to musing to read my comment if they're already reading it on Steemit, and since I didn't write the link, it's not really my CL.
So, I don't know if there's a right or wrong way here. Maybe Asher will provide a preference. Otherwise, I say, do what you feel best. That's what I've been doing. :)
Either way, somehow it's not being counted as a duplicate when Asher goes to pull the list. I've been keeping track of total comments for a long time, and most weeks, we're either dead on, or within a couple of comments of each other.
I think because the answer written on Musing generates a comment, but only as a link on STEEM, it doesn't duplicate even though you're copying and pasting the words from your answer on Musing. So, as long as you don't create a new comment, there won't be a duplicate, even if the link is left.
Yeah the Musing approach is good, you need to be rewarded for those comments!
A link/URL not relating to Partiko and a few others that choose to add their link on every reply will not be excluded in the CL count. So if you ever fancy bumping up your total... :)
Oh I see. Alright. Thanks. 😊
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