RE: UserAuthority (UA): explanations, applications and implications

[vimukthi]

Personally I'd like to see The amount of steem power of the followers to be factored in. I've seen serial spammers with 200+ followers as they tend to follow each other. From my experience, Average comment length and reply length is also a very good indicator of a productive steemian. I'm not a professional programmer. So I don't know how implementation would work.

There are multiple ways steemians produce quality on the platform. So personally I think the follower count, comment and reply length, average post value, Average comments per page and steem power are all good indicators. So it's wise to incorporate them all.

He/she is fighting the good fight for steemit. I have no affiliation with him/her. I just came across the account and it's really something I've wanted to see after my almost effect-less attempts to flag serial spammers with my minnow account.Also I'd like you to check out @miti's effort to combat spam. You can read it here: https://steemit.com/steemit/@miti/my-commitment-to-making-steemit-a-place-free-from-spammers

Please go check it out.

Comments

[scipio]

@vimukthi :

• the amount of SP an account holds, is strongly correlated to UA, because users naturally follow wealthy accounts (they might receive rewards via commenting on high-UA users), yet people also follow "interesting accounts", let's call them "gems" (I personally right now have 246 followers including some Whales, my account is still 0 months old, yet I only have 71 Steem, but I have published 4 high-upvotes articles)
• UA is not to be seen as a stand-alone metric, nor as an anti-SPAM metric by itself. I've explained multiple times that it can me extended with other metrics. E.g.: low-UA && many posts (articles) during a longer timespan (> 30 days in a row posting) ~= spammer
• @miti might want to let the above metric serve as his "guide" to manually detect and hand-flag spammers, if he wants to combat spammers

[vimukthi]

Thanks for the input. Good luck with your work!

[scipio]

Thx!