It's my blog page! How can I spam it?
I get complaints and questions about how posts can be spam? I thought I'd share my reasoning and logic behind treating high frequency automated posts spam.
Relevant definition: Spam is considered to be electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings.
Contributors are not posting to a single website or sub-site. They are posting to the block chain and the posts show up on the feed pages. I look at contributor blog pages are more along the lines of a feed showing your activity with profile information.
In my view, most of the posts in the created feed tag look like spam to me and, if I had the time, would be near useless when looking for interesting content. Automated bot postings every 5 minutes just floods the tags with more spam in my opinion and makes the UI even more useless.
Stats from the last 7 days:
20115 accounts created a post in the last 7 days.
104 accounts averaged more than 8 hours a day (96 per day) creating a post once every 6 minutes. They make up 22% of the number of posts in the last 7 days.
Stats from Sunday 12/10/2017
9952 accounts created posts.
30 accounts spent more than 8 hours a day creating a post once every 6 minutes. They make up 16.7% of the number of posts on Sunday.
Question for my readers
How valuable is automated news, meme & image posting to the community? Is this something we want to encourage? Will it increase the value of STEEM/SBD and attract investors? Am I wrong to flag these accounts to remove the incentive and prevent the creation of more accounts following the same pattern?
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My Delegations:
| Account | MVests |
|---|---|
| @msp-creativebot | 0.206 |
| @reveur | 0.211 |