One of the topics I've debated with other users in chat is the topic of 'Post Spam.' @steemcleaners recognizes full copy & paste texts and plagiarism as post spam. Since @steemcleaners is made up of several individuals with varying opinions on the subject we don't always agree on everything. One area we differ on occasionally is what is and isn't content moderation.
I firmly believe that with a few exceptions groups should avoid content moderation. I even find myself arguing with myself over what constitutes comment spam some days! To solve the debate with myself I finally decided that with the generic comment spam it is the intent, frequency, and interaction with the community that determine whether they are spam. The accounts interactions with the community often reveal the intent of the comments.
What do you think could qualify as 'Post Spam'?
This leads me to 'Post Spam' - are there other types of post spam besides what @steemcleaners recognizes? This is where I want the communities opinion.
I have to go back to intent and interaction with the community. I firmly believe that we should endeavor to be a community. What is social media without the social aspect of it? There accounts on Facebook & Twitter that follow the practice of what I call 'post & forget'. They are solely there to advertise but make no real effort to engage their users.
Here on steemit.com we add direct profit to the equation. Unlike the post & forget accounts on other social media sites that are trying to promote interest in a product or service users are directly rewarded through curation. The potential profit brings users to steemit.com who have no interest in being part of the community and interacting with others.
Account Observations
Case #1 @cryptomonitor
- Posts 150 - 220 memes a day in the last two weeks
- Self votes 93.5% of the time.
- Rarely comments outside of his own posts, when they do their comments often contain links to their own posts. Some are relevant and others are unsolicited self promotional comments.
- I think because of the number of posts (1353) in the last 7 days I couldn't get an accurate read from steem.supply on their potential payout. My SteemSQL query shows $579 SBD
Case #2 @izbing
- Posts 10 - 40 images a day
- Self votes 92.7% of the time.
- Does comment and engage the community on other posts even though they rarely upvote.
- Current post payout for the last 7 days according to steem.supply is $53 USD.
Case #3 @bookingteam.com
- Posts less than once a day on average. Total Posts:
- Self votes 70.6% of the time. Their remaining votes go to @suppoman 17.6%, @thecryptofiend 5.9%, @azfix 5.9%, 46 others 0.0%
- User engagement for the last 30 days is low. 18 comments & 27 posts.
- Current post payout for the last 7 days according to steem.supply is $1263 USD. The majority of the rewards coming from one voter. @hendrikdegrote
Voting information obtained from SteemReports.com
While not spam in the traditional sense. I see the posting of any content for the sole purpose of gaining a reward from the community without interacting with the community as spam. What do you think?
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