Steemit cannot do a weekly/daily audit to find this in their own database and pull 100% of their delegation to those accounts?
The example of 10,000 comments that are exactly the same was a little bit over-simplified. A lot of the spammers are doing it in a way that is not very easy to detect. A lot of the spam is in a 'gray area' that does not necessarily warrant getting their delegated SP taken away. The real question is - are the comments people are making actually adding value?
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There is another thread on this within the post. I replied to that there.
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That is an arbitrary requirement. What about users who just want to view content and curate?
One strange thing I’ve seen with a lot of new accounts. First thing they do is go out and spam follow 1000’s of accounts.
Agreed, it would probably be good to put some form of limit on this, but as far as blockchain resources - this operation actually causes very little "bloat". It is a pretty small problem compared to the resources that spam comments take up.
One question I do have is how much are spammers even making in a week? Does anyone even have a ballpark or data points for such thing? Is this even $500 a week issue outside of spammers doing voting circles that get hunted down by people like Spaminator?
We are assuming having a $1 threshold would even be doing more good than bad. Out side of the major abusers that land themselves on comment trending or surpass such a threshold anyways. Its hard to even know if such a dramatic measure is even worth.
I'm not even sure how someone would even try and find this out. I'm sure people with right skills can easily find out how many comments are under 1$ and that total per week is. Trying to determining how much of that is going to spammers I have no idea how they work that out.
You have any thoughts on this @paulag?
@patrice may have some data on that.