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Spammers are inventive.

  1. Scrape pages for memes and images - 5 minutes to get a few thousand
  2. Upload them to a web hosting site - another 5 minutes
  3. Load up a spreadsheet of links to the meme's and photos. - 2 minutes
  4. Enter title & tag in spreadsheet
  5. Export to csv.
  6. Feed csv to posting bot.

Maybe an hour to queue up several hundred posts. Especially if the post title can be taken from the file name.

200 posts in a day is physically impossible. The most I could do in a day was 16. But it also impossible to manually vote 90 votes in a day for the same reasons. So people don't vote and use bots.

https://steemit.com/@cryptomonitor

This guy is quite prolific!

247 top level posts yesterday, currently worth around $20($15 to him).

And people complained about me for posting 16 posts in one day (which is humanly achievable). 247 posts, only possible if there is either a team of humans, or if a human saved their posts in doc files to post on Steemit, but even then you would notice the frequency will taper off after a few days.

If it is a sustained frequency of hundreds of posts per day without any rest periods then you have to suspect a bot. That said it is $20 a day? It's not like he is getting rich.

Yeah that has to be scripted, i'd lose my mind very quickly if it was a manual task!

$15 isn't bad in some parts of the world.

I hear bandwidth could be the main issue - 4/5 images each post from what i see = 1000+ a day.

That is crazy!
I manage 38 blogs and 1048 posts and this in almost 5 months and this spammers are adding hundreds in one hour!!!
The worst thing is they dont add value to the platform...

200 posts a day is not humanly possible but anyone can post more than 4 a day. It doesn't actually matter how long or how short the posts or how many posts a day. What matters is growing the reward pool and increasing the size of the user base.

See my ideas for referral marketing programs for SMTs, and also like with anything people who have more time than money can post more than people who have more money than time. Increase the wealth of the network with SMTs to avoid the scarcity mind set.

200 posts a day 'is' (collectively) humanly possible... with a sufficiently big team of content creators or shadow-writers (discounting plagiarism). Just saying. :c)