Today when surfing the new Beta busy.org (FYI, its sweet!!) I totally saw a few blatantly botted articles when reading through posts sorted by new. They aren't coherent, literally are pieces of different articles mashed together and often times don't make a lick of sense. An example:
Yesterday's top post on Trending was about DLive, or rather the concept of DLive as the team @Dlive didn't share much proof of a working concept. But they did generate a shitload of hype resulting in a lot of "news/journalist" steemians to write about it, though there is little to no information.
This lead to one pretty hilarious post and kind of terrifying realization for me:
"These posts are going to destroy steemit if our community cant get together to flag these low effort steem fiends.
It clogs up the steemit blockchain, it spreads misinformation bringing Steemit's credibility 1 step below tumblr and worst of all these posts are getting more votes than most new users.
An visual aid in breaking down this specific post;
and a snip from the article:
Dlive is the most popular and easily accessible video-sharing website in the world today. YouTube is not only a website, but its iOS and Android apps are also available. YouTube's popularity grew when the user got the offline storage feature in 2014. With the YouTube Offline Feature, users can download videos to the YouTube app on their device.
what in the fresh hell is going on guys. 40 upvotes?
Why does my post get flagged and hidden from the public but this clutter hangs around. I understand ESL users being one thing but this post has me convinced it was written by a bot or a guy grabbing twitter quotes at random.
Anyways sorry for the rant and PS: @busy.org your site is gorgeous!