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RE: So I just flagged a spammer with ~3400 accounts voting numbered comments..

in #spam8 years ago



I can't do anything. 3000+ upvotes and $7 needs whale involvementSeriously! This type of garbage is what the account @steemit should be used for and @cheetah bot. Why hasn't @cheetah been summoned on this spam?

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Cheetah is mostly an alert bot, check out the FAQ if you haven't yet!I (and thus @cheetah) don't have anywhere near enough influence to combat this stuff alone. I'm just a normal community member like any other, there are no special privileges on the blockchain.

Interesting side note -- cheetah only performs 1% votes, yet she sits at less than 50% voting power constantly. Nuts!

I'd bet we could get a lot of volunteers to manually hunt down and downvote abuses of the system. Is there a way we could be set up anonymously as a proxy 1 day per week? Just set up anonymous accounts and delegate enough SP to do downvote damage. I would help out with that. I use my own account now to flag, but a separate proxy account (setup by steemit?) would help. I could max downvote for one day, and let the account build back up the rest of the week. If you get a hundred people willing to downvote abuses for one day per week with delegated SP, we might make a dent.

That is quite interesting, but honestly, i'm not too shocked.
Scrolling the "New" tab would reveal the massive amount of spam-

@cheetah doesn't really handle spam. It's mainly for plagiarism alerts.

Well then @steemit sounds like a good option. The developers account should be utilized for this. The spam is what will destroy this platform and this should warrant its use.

we need a spambot :)