Depressing but not surprising in my opinion @paulag.
I agree with @abh12345. It would be interesting to see the figures if all the bots were removed (or as many as possible) including those that leave messages in our wallets for resteems.
Then I'd like to see all the comments made by people in yours and Asher's commenting Leagues and then see what we're left with. 😊
ah the gold ol message in a wallets. they are soooooo annoying......
I actually don't mind those @paulag. At least I get paid for them. 😁
What really annoys me is all the spam accounts that automatically follow me every time I make a post. I'd love to be able to stop them!
do you get a lot of them? I dont get to much, do it need a name and shame post?
I don't think a name and shame it post would work @paulag as they're either automated or the accounts don't care anyway.
Until today I was getting 4 or 5 follows with every post I made. All of them were spam accounts with a stolen video from youtube and no text. They also looked like they were related to each in that the accounts were created very close together and they seemed to get upvotes from the same accounts.
One day last week I got so fed up with it I reported about 20 of them to Steemcleaners but they contacted me on Discord to tell me they don't deal with videos.
At that point I just gritted my teeth and tried to ignore it.
So far today it hasn't happened. Maybe they've moved onto someone else.
When it happens it happens immediately a post is made.
Ha, ha, ha. Well that didn't last long @paulag.
These four accounts just followed me immediately I made my most recent post. Look at the number of accounts they are following.
The number of followers they have concerns me too. Since they are blatantly spam accounts then who are these followers? More spam accounts in the same ring?
lol...the rank and the follow/followers are waaaaaay askew!....lol...
Thanks to both you and paulag for raising the awareness on interactions...lol...I agree it's a small few in reply mode...
Now, let Steem/SBD increase, and the replies will do the same.
Btw, this explains with great clarity why the rank isn't keeping up with the followers. No voting power results in "dust" up votes which have zero affect in reality. Let's hope they are people who really appreciate our work...lol...
Eh, as with life, it is what it is. Make the best of it all always.
Peace.
Have you heard of dust sweeper @spiritualmatters?
It's a joint project by @davemccoy and @danielsaori and it's supported and operated by witness @danielsaori.
The goal behind it is to help newbies and minnows get paid on the votes they already have, not to make a profit.
I've been signed up a few weeks now and I love watching all the votes in GINA that I now get paid for instead of turning to dust.
You can find out more at @dustsweeper if you're interested. 😁
i get these too!! probably 500 of my followers are these types of immediate follow accounts- i wonder who they are!!??
I do't know who they are @mountainjewel but they're a pain in the preverbials!
My followers tally is slowing creeping towards 1000 but it's pretty meaningless. I have no idea how many of those are people.
Of the ones who've followed in the last couple of months I would guess about one in ten.
This, for me, is the down side of decentralisation.
It's blatant spam but it appears that there's nothing we can do about it. 😢
It would be great if there was a spam button that we could hit and then the code could check certain things like number of followers, length of comments etc. before flagging it.
At the moment these accounts are really easy to detect. they follow very obvious patterns.
right. i wonder where they're coming from?! our followers number is totally misleading, too! i suppose yes, it's just an unfortunate side effect of the nature of the platform. at least they don't seem to cause much harm besides "following"