Spammers are inventive.
- Scrape pages for memes and images - 5 minutes to get a few thousand
- Upload them to a web hosting site - another 5 minutes
- Load up a spreadsheet of links to the meme's and photos. - 2 minutes
- Enter title & tag in spreadsheet
- Export to csv.
- 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...