I did immediately register them ;) Not sure what to do with these names but I will know when duty calls :) Fuck a whale and he will come – best statement ever…
From working with steemcleaners and spaminator I learned that no one really wants to do that work. It is hard and unrewarding. And it requires a lot of skill. Everyone can help by calling out abuse, educating users and researching these big bot-nets and report them at the appropriate locations.
For example minnowbooster is currently unvoting abuse rings to really hurt these bot net owners financially. Is sucks, it costs money, produces tons of work and tons of talks about what is abuse and what is not.
In my opinion, the best thing to start helping is discussion. As with all things, if you don't like it, change it. And in steem if you want to change something, you start a discussion. You make a post and ask prominent people for their opinion. If you arguments are good, changes are good someone implements your change.
Same with abuse. If you start asking the question: What is abuse? Then you will have many people talking and hopefully reaching some form of consensus or at least a general agreement on what definitely constitutes abuse and what is definitely okay.
And then you slowly work from there. Find a case in the grey area and ask for opinions. Motivate people to speak up about their opinion. Discuss the pro and cons of that being abuse or not. And then as a community find some form of agreement.
The more we do this, the more we get the opinion of the community. And that is what matters. My own opinion means shit unless I own 50% of all steam. And those that own a lot of steem should be pretty clear in their opinion. Either participate in discussion or saying: I don't care, decide without me. And since steem does have a voting system, the hardest task as getting whales to actually care.
PS: royalties payed 10000% :)
Edit: no idea about steemteam as it is unused ^^
I think you have the right idea. Starting discussion. The reason I hadn't started earlier was because I had seen many old posts regarding some of these issues. I guess I was assuming that in the background somewhere they were being handled. Naive of me I suppose.
So it seems the platform needs focalizers then.
It seems in the abuse sector there is a lot of grey area. Finding topics should not be to hard.
I'll think of some ways I can present some of them knowing that posts just get lost poses an issue but I'll think of something.
Thanks for all the input man!