I hope that I am not offending anyone with this post. But we should REALLY take curating seriously for the sake of the platform’s future.
I am not complaining here about the make-up tutorial that received $20k+ in rewards or the introduceyourselfs that have made thousands of $. If that’s what the community values, I can live with it. But there are some posts that I find utterly immoral. Those are posts in which people pretend to be someone else.
I’ve been spending my day at Steemit to curate some good content, but found some fakers in the process.
Here are examples of some fakers' posts I have found that nauseates me. Yes, I use the word nauseating. I find it disgusting to lower your morals like this. I believe in the future of the platform and have invested close to $8,000 of my savings just to buy STEEM and to POWER UP. I don’t want anyone to jeopardize this project.
1. @juhi, "Challange <><><<<>>Today i have decided to take a challange ::living one month only on steemit::lets see i can survive or not :"
This person stole a picture from a model called Alyssah Ali and pretending that she is her. In general, the post doesn't look serious at all due to the many spelling mistakes and it seems like she just wrote it for some quick $.
2. @toplist, "Hai Steemit I am Rachel"
This post is written by someone named @toplist who pretends to be ‘Rachel’, a 14-year old girl in Hong Kong. If you go to the post, you can clearly see the bad retouching in the first image. He or she has shamelessly erased the words on her sign to write “Hi Steemit 19-07” there.
I would like to urge the community to take their curating responsibilities seriously and to downvote the fakers. I am not asking you to downvote posts that are unoriginal, posts you disagree with or posters you don't like.
What I would like everyone to do is to downvote posts that harm Steemit.
For good reasons why we should downvote, see this excellent post of @nenad-ristic
Well said, I've compared allowing scammers to slip through the cracks to get Steem Power to allowing barnacles to accumulate on the Steem ship. In this analogy though, the barnacles can't be scraped off of Steem!
Upvotes should not be thrown everywhere especially if you have a lot of Steem Power.
In the slack chat, there is a channel #steemitabuse for trying to deal with any scam/spam/etc abusive posts. You are welcome to join and help out!
Preach it brother pfunk! We shall convert the infidels one by one or they will be banished by the almighty downvote bots once and for all!
-lulz
That's the spirit!
As pfunk mentioned, come join the daily crusade in #steemitabuse on Slack! It's been a long hard fight and we need more willing to do this dastardly deed on a daily basis.
Keep it up @chhaylin @tuck-fheman @pfunk This community is being kept great by its own members and I am so proud to be a part of it!
I have only stumbled across a few questionable posts and read the comments before determining how to proceed. I am hesitant about the power of newbies downvoting because @groovy posted material that turned out to be true. Steemians seemed on edge after the heroin story was plagiarized and as the influx and evolution of material changes. @halo was also facing problems due to her similarities to many a whisker chinned aquatic critter. She didn't post content I wanted to upvote anyways but I would be wary of the double edge voting sword's power.
Truly,
H
I have had posts downvoted because members have mistakenly believed them to be spam. It still lists a downvote from @fyrstikken on my first vote, which was quite the bummer because I tried my best to create an intriguing article based on my own experiences and the local news coverage of a Black Lives Matter event in my town. I also have a downvote from a @dho that has only one reply and no blog entries. The up/downvote is a tool that should be wielded with care.
Go look in #moderating and check out my post on how to be more efficient in moderating the network and making money in the process. Also found #doyourpart today.
you are completely right with this it takes more than a short intuition to decide if a post is really good or same fake shit.
Yeah, I have to admit that sometimes I decide too quickly as well. One example, the post of the heroin addict that reaped in several 1000s of $. Next day, I realized that it was a stolen story. Fortunately, the person got downvoted eventually and received no rewards. :)
Agree!
I agree that we should downvote fakes like this, but there already some problems when some newbies downvote good posts.
I think there should be some threshold of minimal SP balance which allow to use downvote.
I don't know a good solution about newbies downvoting good posts or about the 'imbalances' in curating influence. Nonetheless, it should be discussed in public so that we can give some direction to Steemit's progressions. :)
spot on , it undermines us hard working folk and threatens the legitimacy of steemit.
Agree with u man i seen lot's of posts got stolen for earning some dollars
Fakers and Gamers are two plague's that will eventually get flushed out with flag downs. Faker are fakers. Their intent is clear.
Gamers are different , they are sly but still are working it for the same steemit rewards.
He's a Steemit Gamer Move...
.2 people deposit large sums of money into steem power...then they keep upvoting each others posts... many pennies making multiple dollars...... this emerging new social media platform will not reach it's true potential if influence is exchanged instead of received through content creation.
So you wrote a post about fakers...I'd like too include... fakers on steemit are also gamers who pollute the upvoting rules...just saying
Ah yes, I haven't thought about Gamers yet. :) Thank you for giving me that interesting insight. I didn't know it was so prevalent here, but I can understand why.
I think instead of the flag we need an actual down-vote button/arrow next to the up-vote arrow. Some of the newer users a don't no how to down-vote.
woops, slow ponied by calamus