If you don't know about the war, you will soon.
What War?
The War on Spam.
I hereby challenge all humans who give a shit to make the tag, #waronspam trend.
Let's see if we can get this spammy, spamificent, spamunctious, spamified, spammely, spam-mofoish, spamish spamich spam blown to bits!
Ok,
Calling all early adopters!
Calling all whales!
Calling all minnows!
Calling all dolphins!
Calling all redfish!
Calling all seaweed!
Calling all mermaids!
Calling all unicorns!
I saw @thecryptofiend's latest post and realized we all need to band together, because Steemit has been spamified, and it really needs to stop before the huge masses enter, and it really gets out of control. It's gross just thinking about a scenario where the spam gets worse than it is now.
Raise your guns
Fill it with posts
About how to get rid of spam that fills our minds and our Steemiverse!
Mining with our minds for Steem does not appear in the shape of a Spam Box.
IT NEVER HAS!
Fix it now. I'll be scraping and communicating with those who are actively turning Steemit into a Spamich Pile of Shit.
I have officially had enough.
Btw, this does not mean you can't post silly memes. This does not mean you don't have freedom to be a weirdo on here. But I know you know what I mean! The comments that are hollow, shallow and mean NOTHING.
All the crap that is floating around THAT HAS ZERO MEANING TO ANYONE, INCLUDING THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT.
endrant
I dislike using the flag, but I will be linking this article and a Spam GIF to everything I see that is utter crap, empty stuff....If you keep it up, you'll be known as part of the Spam Brigade.....it won't be pretty.
If you're a Spam Ambassador and don't know what to do, @clayboyn has good advice:
Network with others and get better
Here are some fun facts about one of our Wallet Spammers...
Also about the 16,261 followers:
So there's effectively only about 4k-6k accounts where a resteem would be viewed.
Looking at the 6,091 accounts with Reputation above 40.0, since these are going to be the people who most users want to attract..
Of the 2,009 Accounts w/300 or more followers w/Reputation Above 40.0:
These are just some summary items that might be interesting or worth considering!
Wow brutal!
Yeah.. when you take a closer look, the "9,000+" Followers that you're getting exposure to aren't exactly worth the 2 SBD.
follow, follow, upvote, upvote, I've sent you sbd and follow me here's straight from the oven, designed for spam and cent's lover
It does really concerned me since the first time I joined steemit when I encountered spammers already while at the same time people preach about quality content.
I hope and wish, we all could eradicate spammers, and plagiarism from steemit in general.
Yes, your caring is what is needed. Thank you.
Yes, but we need to establish what constitutes spam on Steemit, otherwise this could en up becoming a flag war. Don't want a bunch of kids flagging others just because they don't like their music band or some stuff like that.
That's a point right there @galactic123 we need to set out a thing as to what classified as SPAM
you're welcome :)
Yes!!! I joined only very recently, but I was quite disappointed with all this spam posts and comments, bots, "please follow me I followed"s, requests to resteem, etc... If I like anything, I'd comment, upvote and/or resteem.
Even though I don't understand how would making #waronspam trending help this, flagging content will help.
It's too much noise here. You can read either hot/trending posts or get lost. So it's quite discouraging for someone like me, who has only the best intentions but can't really get any audience... My goal was to write about mental health and startups. But it now seems like a waste of time because I won't do it for 10 views and half of it bot or spam anyway. I even tested posting fancy travel photos that usually help, but it didn't help either. So not sure about what to do next... #endrant
milansteskai... You'll find your spot. It's taken me a month to work out that the hot and trending categories aren't my place = and nor are they yours unless bitcoin suddenly crashes, in which case a mental health expert should be able to make a killing and redistribute some of the whales wealth at the same time... It's more luck than judgement if you catch one that interests you as it flies past in the new section... but if you go to the far right menu and try explore, then you can go to the topic of your choice. Read and comment there and you get responses because they are like-minded people who will have a genuine interest in what you say. Plus when you enter a sub-community it's smaller and you get chance to get to know the names, Beyond that I do quickly visit, upvote and comment on genuine introductions, because like you I can remember how important it was to get response at that point. I could have done with your advice the day I discovered that bottymcbotface and Ionlysaymeep were bots... As for the number of views... Forever is long time. If you are writing something that isn't time sensitive then its likely to be accessed far more in the future than during its first week here. It's the folk doing crypto and steemit posts who have to think in terms of the immediate future. Some of their stuff is out of date before they upload it! Best of luck!
Thank you so much @elaine54. I didn't expect such a complex answer and really do appreciate your time spent on writing this. There is still a hope that it's not only bots here :)
Haha... yes I've been slightly disturbed by the number that have appeared since I've been here
ok, best thing to do: write comments like the one you did on mine, on other peoples....find your area of specialty, mental health and startups, and reach out to others, by commenting. I commented a lot and still do, and it's so valuable, because everyone is hungry for getting attention.
So simple and so true :) Maybe an encouragement like this, from time to time, is what helps. Thanks!
The first 3 months are the most difficult in Steemit I think. Check out My Steemit thumb rule for Minnows to keep yourself motivated. BTW I followed you and up-voted a couple of your posts. Keep them coming. Good content is what will save Steemit.
Thank you @gokulnk! I've bookmarked it and will read it this weekend.
This thread is encouraging. It's difficult not to feel discouraged here. NOTHING happened for 2 months, then BAM, I had a couple of hugely successful posts. So, I churned out some more and I'm back to 5 views and 5 cents. Hooray!
I appreciate the info on commenting and drilling down to the topics outlined by @elain54. I think this will really help me push through. Thanks all who commented on this.
Now about this horrible spam problem...#waronspam!
It does have to be stopped. Its annoying as feckity!
nice post
ho ho!
I do love this a whole lot.
STILL.
Its my favourite one :O)
In this post in my replies I tell Stella I have been on my page 3 weeks deciding to call out spammers, just like today/tonite again.... and they are offended LOL, even when I always go to their comments tab and provide spammy screenshots of their crap
Oh my God, I know!! I had one spammer go off on me for two paragraphs. In that one's case they've been commenting but not voting, which is an insidious type of spamming since this person actually leaves decent comments, but what they're doing is fishing for comment upvotes.
Good to see you!
Was it that Roy guy?
I have 2 of those today at least I caught on my blog and addressed it right to them, I am being more critical here now.
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We Family here!!!
Thanks, honestly.......this is a perfect example of why Steemit and blockchains were designed -- to help people like I say in the post I just put up to help someone who is burying her dad.
Pls. check that post and vote/resteem to help if you can.
I do miss you and your name is one of my fav. to see. Thank you for engaging me today
LOL
Hi Barry! I am putting together a waronspam post, but once it's done I will most definitely visit your blog :) I might spam it with my anti spam post too lol. In the future, if you have a link you really want me to see, drop it in a comment to me. You're a friend Barry, I would not consider that spamming.
He is on my page and I have been enabling him, I feel bad.
I understand, I actually had another one just like him, but when I explained that they are going to do more damage to their accounts by not voting then they ever would by bringing their voting power down they changed their practices which was nice to see. I definitely prefer giving them a chance before flagging.
ha ha
3 weeks ago, I joined in on my page, on all the spammy mcspammersons and doing it again today and then I am told to not speak to them that way, on MY page LOL.
I never say anything til I usually look on their comments tab and take a screenshot for them of their pasted spammy crap.
#WarOnSpam
oh priceless GIF
Hehe, Cheers!
It’s good to know I have not been fighting this war on the evil spam on my own. I’ve even written about it this week calling out those who are in flag wars with no good reason and pointing out all the things they could be flagging or fighting on this platform instead. Why punish those trying to create community and have a positive impact when they could take out the spammers, scammers, and exploiters with their power they wield.
I have even called out spammers before and they swear back at me. I am glad to see some more powerful people here have finally had enough of these people. They are not here to make Steemit great or improve it. They just want rob it, stab it, and run away late at night in the shadow of darkness to escape with what little they got away with.
I’ll try and come up with sometime this week to make a blog with your hashtag as I would love to see more people get onboard with these efforts. Thank you for helping the community out in this way!
I've just had enough of it. If we make it a trending, profitable tag.....then.....maybe it will have some effect.
consider me in the front line!
I won't flag but I'd be blatant to anyone going around copy pasting irrelevant comments on my page, too
ok get those waronspam posts generating!
I started here (not promoting) but I guess my approach was too light.
By the way, I took your advice and have used #waronspam on a copy pasted post, I just found. If more than two people agree with me, then let me know, I too will flag it.
https://steemit.com/news/@nancie/here-s-how-the-bitcoin-price-reaches-usd100-000-by-2021
Hopefully, if everyone joins hands, maybe we can make a dent in spam posts.
I have just posted a reply to this post, but it is really far down. Since I would really like your opinion about a question I have, please do read it. And this goes for anyone who is actively trying to stop spam and is using flags to achieve their goal.
A lot of this spam is made to earn money from comments.. don't people realize that by commenting with "thanks, great post!" 30 sec after the post is made is making them a flag target rather than an upvote one since it is obvious they didn't even read the post..
Could you explain this a Bit more? Whats the probleme with early comments?
The problem is you can't read a long post in 20 sec.. or watch a 5 minute video in half a minute. So commenting before you even started or finished the post saying how great it is isn't really alright.
Can I be a spambassador? I've been fishing some of the blatant stuff by repeat offenders. With others I'll give them a chance to redeem themselves. We have to set the precedent that we won't put up with it
yes, Steve, let's be Spambassadors! I have a Steemicide Hotline episode brewing! Do you want to be in my video?
let us work on badges, uniforms and an official code of conduct......how about a white paper too?
Spam-Free Ambassadorship
I'd be honoured to be in your video. I can do all my own stunts ;)
I should know by now to check what my phone actually thought I typed. Just noticed this made no sense before
One of the best ideas I've read so far. Maybe a good reason to set up a Steemit Spambassasors Program (SPP)?
The war on spam really boils down to comments, IMHO.
If you think a person writes spam posts, don't follow them, and don't like their posts. They won't trend and they won't make any Steem, so eventually, they go away. This is the beauty of Steemit.
However, when a person comments just for the spam of it, that is a problem. Identifying those who do with the hashtag, #WarOnSpam, is a brilliant idea and I wholeheartedly support @stellabelle in her efforts.
I wonder what the spam solution is - between technological and human curation... It can be so overwhelming...
Here's a spam art I made over a decade ago :O
Thank you @stellabelle for the initiative. My suggestion, someone needs to put a check on the Introduce yourself tag to begin with. There are users or bots who will just spam on new joinees introduction posts with the soul purpose of gaining followers. "Welcome, enjoy your time here, I will follow you, you also follow me" you can see multiple posts like these by two users I have noticed ( @khunfarang & @khunpoom ), there are others too but these are legendary when it comes to spamming. I did mention these users on thecryptofiend post as well. If you want to experience this yourself, write a post, maybe with the war on spam gif and tag it as "introduceyourself" they will pop write up !! I'm a newbie but all in for this fight, would need support from veterans like you. Cheers.
A perfect example, posted 25 mins ago although the user selected the wrong tag but these spammers:
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@p3rspectivo/steps-to-earn-money-at-steemit
If the message in wallet was not enough, check this, they created a website http://resteem.com
Calling out all nautical hamsters?
#waronspam
Spam is a platform killer and should be eradicated here, you have actually motivated my next post on the subject. Thanks for sharing.
Agree totally!
As they say: 'Offense is always a strong Defense.'
Just made this meme of a picture of my dog.
A polite reply I think to let them know there're not welcome. Hope it works and stay away from future posts ...
Get it out of here!
Imagine a Steemit with hundreds of posts of value and no "I upvote you, you upvote me"
I like this idea...
It was like this once....
I hope we get back there soon!
It does get out of hand for sure. But I honestly doing think the wallet comments are the worst.
I think it is bad when there are 2 or 3 comments on my posts that are clear spam bots.
LOUDER!
I've been writing satirical posts lately about the blatant disregard for standards, and spam is my next topic. I'll definitely be using the #waronspam tag!
Today was my first day on steemit and before I made my first post i did a bit of research for it...... and everyone was like... "Steemit values quality content"..."The community doesn't tolerate the spammers" etc.... But my experience was a tad bit dissapointing..... People just post links for stuff on the site... stuff they didn't make in the first place.... and get 20~30 upvotes on it.... that is demeaning to the original creator of the content and to this community....
thank you for bringing this forward..... because being a minnow I think I never could in time.
brutal rhetoric I would say. Make good content not war :-)
just kidding.
i fully back this #waronspam and all things #spamichpileofshit.
shit is old and tired. it's amazing how people continue to find ways to perpetually suck.
Yeah I also saw it this morning and I'm sort of disappointed from certain individuals who think it's okay to do this to other people , it's really not . It's sad that people can do this to one another , I thought this community was like family , family doesn't stab each other in the back . Who ever the person is , is decently a big hater and needs to get a life @stellabelle
To be clear I like Spam the food, but yeah I fully support this war!
Great to see @stellabelle policing the streets of steemit.
Bringing some order to this lawless site.
I also so @thecryptofiend's post and I totally agree with him that this spam has to end. It has happened to me multiple times when I get 0.001 SBD just so I can go over and check out someone's blog.
I understand it is hard to get exposure and be seen but there are so many other ways and you can see that by taking me or all the other minnows who are working their butts off and getting names out there.
It's sad to see so much spam all around. It's really going to be hard to deal with if more and more spammers come into this platfrom. Fuck those fuckers!
While I don't think aggression is the answer, and I generally don't like the "war on" anything, I also see that if we all sit around here, and just are passive, it will get shittier, and shittier.....and shittier. It could get really out of control, and also, this site will just be known as a spam site....The end result is quite horrible, and totally possible without some real efforts, letting people know that what they are doing is pointless.
Yes the more we wait the more out of control it's going to get. I hope that everyone will be concerned about this and work together to make the future of steemit much better!
It won't be an easy war, but hey!! Ready the spam Brigade badges for we will overcome spammers rebellion and save our community @stellabelle
I might design badges that say:
SPAM-FREE STEEMIAN!
And with each badge, they are rewarded...
I hope to get one lol
Recently I must use many flag option because too many spammer, they only using bot and copy paste comment. Sadly I ever saw one of witness vote this spammer comment, I think this spammer using this witness software application. And this witness not aware that his application is using for spamming:)
Any more info? There are very few witnesses that are also programmers providing for the network. As I am one of them I am curious as to your mentioned issue.
I think this witness does not aware about that and this inadvertent conduct by him. He intends to make software application to make easy for user to make post and comment from smartphone. I appreciate you, and at the final using, about software application is on user responsibility. It is kind like of blacksmith who makes a knife, he intends using that knife for cutting tree or etc but sometimes it uses by his user for other purposes. :)
Ok so from what I can gather, you are interested in asking @good-karma to add a specific user to the blacklist so they dont receive the bot votes from the @esteemapp.
You just need to reach out and help them make the problem known, or bring the user name and a link to https://steemit.chat and post it in #steemcleaners-linkdrop or #steemitabuse.
Nice, I will do it and save that username and post it in steemit.chat. Thank you for your advice :)
which user?
I am not surprised by this. Netuoso wrote a welcome bot script and publish it. I spoke out against it. Was made fun of for doing so. I decided to not further reply to it because he even edited his comment to try and make his point and then called in bots to prop up my comment with upvotes so everyone could see it…
It was 9 days ago if you like to see it you can find I here. If you wish for me to edit the link out please let me know and I will. @stellabelle
Yet again as I have said numerous damn times before, I write open source stuff to TEACH people. If you want to be ignorant and just copy paste it and use it without reading and learning that is your prerogative.
Bots are not bad or spam. Some bots can be, sure. But I would wager a bet that you have made more bytes of bullshit comments than my "spammy" introduction bot has ever made.
By writing simple scripts people learn how to interact with the blockchain in a more complex way. There are many services that requires automation, and learning how to write it by starting with a simple starter script is very helpful to them.
You are clearly not a programmer so I don't really care about your opinion when you say I wrote a spammy bot but I will respond to it for transparency especially since you are almost passive aggressively talking shit about me on this platform.
Nearly every tech firm you see in existence today utilized bots and automation to perform necessary tasks that help their business or their customers. You are ridiculous to think you can or should try to regulate the network by stopping people from coding things that interact with the blockchain in a programmatic way.
All you want to do is complaining but not offer any actionable solutions to the issue you seem to be so concerned about.
Let me see a post you make explaining how you plan to clean up the spam from the bad actors before I worry about the "spam" from the beneveolent programmers.
Kthx.
"Hey guys we have an entirely censorship proof system here and we are paying out of our own pockets (witnesses) to keep it running but @enjar with his 240 SP thinks we should change it all up. Scrap it all an start over boys"
Btw I didn't call in bots to prop up you comment for any reason other than to prove the worth of bots. To which you explained that you yourself use the bots you are calling spam or bad for the network.
I will keep in mind that you don't like upvotes and will ensure you don't get them from me. No problem there.
I will try to search it, I forgot to save that link yesterday. I have seen twice this incident happened and I think this witness only try to promote his working (software application) by upvote the user comment or posting.
Spamming is so annoying! Maybe we can have a solution for multiple spam comments...If someone will post more than twice the same comment their commenting time to grow to 1 minute and so on.
But I can't find a solution for wallet memos, Maybe the only solution is to make that person to understand he is acting wrong. But let's see maybe someone will come with a great idea!
I second that, I am really afraid to have this space becoming a huge spamming pool, that would defo ruin the concept.
We should be always strict against spammers
Amen. But how do you propose to stop it exactly? Not sure a GIF is gonna stop people, but you got my vote.
i was hoping someone smarter than me would create a solution
Nice piece, I pray this will help make a change
do you think this spam you speak of could find it's way to that not safe for work list ? I find that helps with things I don't wan't to see or read :) I got nosy once that was enough for me :P spam in any form food post mail it's all bad and not good for ya :( thanks for the heads up :)
The pissboilers who post spammy comments really get on my norks. Frankly, i believe that if something isn't done to stop it, it could be the death of this platform. Steemit is about communication and interaction and it's getting to the point where you can't communicate effectively without some moronic spambot asking for upvotes or follows. Same goes for people who are blatently just copying and pasting articles, or trying to pass off images as their own. Those are a bit easier to handle with the likes of @cheetah and @steemcleaners. Next thing you know, we will be inundated with cat videos.
It's us or them... Death to spammers! Shit is about to get real!
great work... i have upvoted you for this post a little quantity of usd because it is my beginning on steemit.. following you now and please dnt foget to upvote back and also follow.. :)
This has my freaking 10000% unconditional, swear on the bible, cross my heart and hope to die, guaranteed on my mamas life support. Im ready to spam snipe. #yunk approved
Is it about time we had human moderators?? And possibly with the power to ban someone for a few hours??
The ROOT CAUSE of the SPAM is the BOTS that are having people sign up, just to give control of the votes to the BOTS.
The BOT rules are that you can't vote! And just post something 1 - 3 times a day and get numerous upvotes from the BOTS' community.
Sounds like BS to me - BOTS BS . . .
These new users are just posting some stupid pic and the BOTS do the rest. This behavior is NOT good for the STEEM community.
HOW can a picture have 100 upvotes with only 1 view ? It's BOTS BS!
We can call out a few SPAMMERS, but the ROOT CAUSE must be addressed.
Take Away the SPAMMERS ability to gain from their BOTS
@goldkey will be posting a "NOT a BOT" revolutionary post soon... keep a human eye out and look for it. Thanks.
Some people love spam thooo haha jk ... Yeah, I've been getting tons of it lately... especially in my wallet lol
I see the Steemit spam is spicier than I realized. @thecryptofiend
#WarOnSpam
I'm in! I hate spam, unless we're talking about the canned meat product, which is DELICIOUS...But anytime I see spam I try to do the right thing, and let them know to try something different, than I keep an eye out if they continue with the bad habit I will either flag, even tho I hate wasting VP that I could use to reward someone else, or drop a link to steemcleaners.
100000000% agree. I've been put off by SPAM AND TROLLS ever since my inception here about 9 weeks ago! #waronspam is awesome! This is a, large part of why I started my Facebook group Steemit Dreamit. Because dreams are original, therefore so must be your steemit postings and blogs! Also working on helping Steemians gain organic followings! Resteemed!
What about a spamer pillory database where all the spamers are listed?
i'm here from a week now and, yep, i really saw a lot spam and i hope this will be cut off from the root, so like that it will not grow and we gonna have a clean community, i mean , as much as it's possible because, hey it's internet...
I don't have enough power to flag others, but I'll try to help how I can. Just earlier I found a post that had already been visited by the cheetah bot, so I left a comment explaining about copy/paste. It was a new user.
Thanks for sparing memes. I've just discovered how to make one, wasn't even successful, but who knows?
I've been wishing for a way to remove/delete the spam comments I have gotten. Would love to see the developers solve this issue somehow. Thank, @Stellebelle!
Yes!!! Really good initiative. I LOVED Steemit not only for all the amazing things it has as a platform but also for the fact that it was spam free and had on average a very good quality content. We need to keep it that way!
Eh, yeah I get it, because a bunch of posts about spam are better than spam... ah?? What?