Hi guys.
Last night while I was doing the usual I noticed an exploit of the @promoted bot. @hamo86 is spamming posts and promoting them by using the promote feature. He is making post's with a picture of graph and some generic heading to avoid detection.
The exact method that is being used is.
- Make a blog post, insert any random crap.
- Promote said post by 0.001 sbd
- Get the @promoted minimum vote which is $0.05
- repeat repeat repeat
I have brought this up with quite a few steemians but it appears that no one cares.
Am I insane for pointing out something that is potentially creating 10,000 spam post's a day?
I think this is an actual issue with an easy fix.
Just increase the minimum vote to 0.01 sbd for now and monitor the situation.
So guys am I bring ridiculous in thinking that this is a legitimate issue?
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Agree this is stupid and needs to be stopped. Do you know how this needs to be flagged to though. Surely the Steem devs have accounts here, but i don't know who they are.
I have left a message with the people who run @promoted and a couple well known steemians. No one seems to care though. We don't want to be like a government and name the laws after the fact. This can be prevented.
If no one cares then I will just exploit it myself until people care. Things like this need to be ironed out
Message Steemcleaners and also the Chetah bot.
Already sorted bud. Well that one account haha.. I was more worried about the fact that other accounts must be doing the same thing.
I did not know about either steemcleaner or cheetah at the time of writing.
Just annoys me that the owner of @promoted could fix it quite easily. It is my own fault for not contacting him directly(I did make an attempt but a memo would be more efficient. steemit notifications are sucky after all) . I was looking for other people to solve this problem when I can do as much as anyone else. I didnt get that then I guess..Only starting to get it now haha
EDIT: Admittedly I did presume that @promoted was directly connected to steemit at the time.
Yeah, check out Cheetah bot. It has a command where you can tell it to ban someone, and it will flag them for further review.
That is cool. I'm still new to steemit I guess. Still learning and making mistakes :)
I know haha. You have no fault in this of course :)
EDIT: It was my own inability to do something as simple as track you down that made this take so long. That's my bad.
It's still a thing, right? I recently just made a post and recognized all the Spam and Promotrion Bots under my post. 10 out of 20 Comments are Bots. What is this? How can I prevent this?