Steemit is an awesome platform where you can get paid to post blogs, while this is great, there are many gaming the system. Example: @bogartgaming, there are many many many more examples but for this post we'll just be using that account.
Everyday this guy churns out tons of content, and some of it gets upvotes, now I know that currently he isn't making money because there are bots dedicated to down-voting plagiarized content, but he should still not be able to pollute the steemit ecosystem and have the possibility to make money.
People who are consistently downvoted should lose steem power. That steem can go to content creators like me who give genuine insights and ideas.
There should be steem power brackets. The more steem power you have, the more you can post.
If you have less than 10 steem power you can post twice a day
if you have more than 10 steem power, you can post three times a day.
If you have more than 1000 steem power you can post four times a day
There should also be commenting limits per day based on how new you are.
If you have less than 10 steem power you can comment 5 times a day
if you have more than 10 steem power, you can comment 10 times a day.
If you have more than 1000 steem power you can comment 15 times a day
The new accounts would no longer be able to spam. It would also make the people who would like to spam spend a few thousand dollars supporting the ecosystem before they were allowed to pollute it.
Also having the limit on a low amount of posts makes sure people want to create quality content.
I posted an awesome, motivational video of my adventures in the San Bernadino Mountains and I received a whopping 3 cents, and what bothered me the most was that I saw plagiarized news articles replace my article in the new section. No wonder my content didn't get traction, there was so much spam preventing others from seeing what I had to say.
Also I'm not claiming that my posting limit proposal is perfect - in fact it is far from it, it is just a start, but we need an open conversation about spam when it is always in our faces, in the comment section, in the new section. We can all agree that something has to be done.
I know bots also spam comments but I wouldn't limit comments. Comments are necessary to make this a community and you can easily post more than 5 comments if you get into a back and forth conversation with someone.
I know spam is a problem and limiting submissions is a nice solution but please don't consider limiting comments.
I'm not saying it's perfect, I'm saying it's a start. We need to stop this blockchain pollution as a community
Maybe a way to remove posting privileges if too many comment get flagged?
that could possibly create an army of downvoting bots that could blackmail content creators.
There's nothing stopping that from happening now. I'm sure there's an algorithm for determining if those flags are from contributing members or not.
There's now a soft limit of 4 top-level posts per day.
Of course, the first comment is a spambot
Great Idea too many spammers for sure.
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it does not have any sense. through some time everyone will up only good content)