I feel that these spammers and spam bots may destroy the very fabric of Steemit and must be stopped. However, it is unfortunate that this has to be done by flagging by Senior Steemians - which takes a lot of investment of time, voting power and energy, which could have been spent in mentoring some minnows. So, while getting flagged, in a way, the spammers manage to hurt Steemit development. Can't there be another way of stopping them? Perhaps a council of Senior Steemians or empowered Steemian volunteers who votes once in a week or something to just ban such accounts? That will take time too but at least it will be a one time effort a week.@lukestokes -
Just my two cents of thought.
No one can be banned.
Well - I guess banning is not possible. Any other deterrent then. My concern was that addressing this on an individual basis by senior Steemians.
It's a difficult challenge because Steemit needs to remain uncensored which opens up opportunities for abuse. I'm thinking maybe it could start with witnesses compiling lists of obvious spam accounts and Steemit Inc undelegating the initial Steem Power to those accounts to severely limit their bandwidth. Maybe the signup process could be improved as well to prevent these fake accounts from being created in the first place unless they spend their own money.
Those seem to be both good ideas. I hope they get considered.