How To Earn Yourself A Free Flag
For months, I neglected my flag, using it only in extreme cases. I apologise for this. @berniesanders was very generous with his at the time, so I didn't think there was much need for me to share my own.
However, I realise now that my actions were completely selfish. I am changing my ways for the good of this platform, and will be handing out free flags to a number of people from now on. I already gave out more than 10 yesterday!
If you would like a free flag, which is very likely, because everyone on this fucking thing is all of a sudden looking for something for free, then all you must do to qualify is;
Leave me a comment asking me to follow you.
Leave me a comment complimenting my post without actually touching on any of the subject matter.
Leave any of the aforementioned types of comments on a post that I am reading.
Randomly posting links to your active posts in my or any other post I am reading.
Randomly sending links to your steemit posts to my steemit.chat or discord.
Making a post about "How to Self-Vote More Efficiently and earn 50% More." (Really?)
Sucking up to whales or dolphins in my presence.
Made a post a couple of weeks ago about an idea for a bot to go after some of the things you are talking about. Particularly people who spam comments in hopes of getting a whale kiss.
I am still in the early stages of the early stages, namely research. I Figure one important thing to do is to get people to donate 1% of their voting power to flags to help clean up the system.
On phone so can't link but if you fancy reading the post you should be able to find it 5or6 posts back on my blog, and see if it hits on some of things you think needs dissuading let me know and or what else my bot could help with
I think it would be too difficult to write a bot like that. There would inevitably be a lot of mistakes, and innocent people getting flagged.
I thnk the best approach is just for us all to make an effort to show spammers that by spamming, they are making it harder for themselves to succeed here.
If you are curious about anything, as yoiusaid you are in the research stages, I have a pretty good understanding of how things work here at this point. So, if you have any curiosities, find me in https://discord.gg/v3GpU4N and you can ask me whatever you want.
But, heads up. I am as honest as they come, so if you want me to sell this place to you, ask someone else.
As i mentioned in the post I have some ideas to safe guard innocents at the expense of only catching the most extreme Spammers.
Sell this place to me? Not sure what you mean
I see, I will give it a read later. By sell this place, I meant, tell you only its qualities, whilst omitting its less than desirable aspects.
INDEED
Hahahahaha...um where do I start. Oh yes, follow me and nice photo, very detailed. Whales, I'm here!!! Still, you might want to take a look at my latest link post?! Nearly forgot, I am going to upvote this at precisely 6 minutes and 9 seconds from typing this as I have determined that is the optimal way of making precisely no extra money.
You should have written this post...
@onetree, that was brilliant! A tip in your... ermm... of the hat to you!
Lol... ROFL 😂😂😂
You have named yourself incorrectly. You are father of satire, "son of satire" is an understatement... :P
Before leaving, let me showcase my skills so that you start to follow me... 😜
Peace ✌️✌️
@vinyprop, in awe with the satirical sardonic post of yours, it's quite ironical
Thank you @vidyabanjan 😊😊
LOL!!!! Love it! Brilliantly done.
Thank you @coquiunlimited for the kind words. :)
No no, my friend. You have failed to comprehend that my name in itself is satirical, because I am actually the daddy of satire. Lol.
Just messing, obviously. Cheers for the compliment, and the poem, has earned you that follower, even if it was a tad spammy. Lol
How this is what I call "two birds with one arrow".. Not only I got to have a conversation with you but also got an esteemed follower. Humbled. Thanks mate..!
How about two paedophiles, or two politicans (is there a difference actually?) with one arrow, instead of those innocent birds?
Also, your words are completely insane. I am just a random dude, as you are. Please, don't humble yourself before me. Lol.
You are absolutely right mate.!! Killing anyone innocent isn't right...
i will not call my self even a small minnow, i will called my self a newly hatched fish. and yet i got those spammer comming to my post. it made me smile and sad at the same time.
but can you tell me what is the effect of the flag that you give? do you have any flag percantage? I tend to ignore them, and play safe. just in case that i will get in trouble for doing that. but still i want this site to be a good place, can you expalain to me please?
You can choose to flag with 1-100% if you have enough SP that it allows you the option. I was flagging at 1% for the last couple weeks, gently hinting at spammers to desist with the annoying shit. However, this seems to have literally no effect, as things are still escalating. So, now, I have been flagging at 100%, just as I vote, for the last few days.
When I flag someone, it negatively effects their rep if their rep is lower than mine, and just about every single spammer does have a far lower rep than me, so I am able to make their posts go invisible, UNLESS, someone with more SP than me has already upvoted it. Then my flag will simply remove some of their rewards.
well thank you for your explaination. because as you said in the other comment there might be one person hadling those account. because i see two exact user commenting on some of the other post almost at the same kind of time. and they are just doing it like tandem.
i might still need more time to see it again, but might flag them in the coming days if it is still the same.
It's very possible that they are controlled by the same person. But, I would do a little more investigating to ensure you're right before taking action.
If you're unaware, steemdb.com is a great site to explore past transactions on the block chain.
In fact, if you ever just go to the top of the address bar and change the "it" in steemit to "db" for database, it will take you to a page that will give you a lot of information on that blog/post/comment.
Nicely done. I do love a good laugh in the morning. I wouldn't be entirely in favour of flagging, I'd just tend to ignore spammers, but I do understand your frustration.
I ignored for long enough, and I condemned @berniesanders for all his flagging. But if you are too lenient, people start to take liberties, and my first comment received on this post is testimony to how relevant the post, and the need for flags is becoming.
The only way to stop the spam is to show spammers that it does not work, and at the moment, it is clearly working for them..
I'd suggest you use them, as I'm sure spam was one of the reasons the flag was implemented in the first place..
I read a lot of the articles here on the rights and wrongs of flagging, I know you're likely correct and still, I can't bring myself to do it. I guess I'll just have to toughen up and maybe have a '3 strikes and you're out' system.
I understand. I tried to use mine as little as possible for months. Probably only used it like 3 times in my first 4 or 5 months, that I can remember at least. But I have watched this place slowly become more and more about self-service, and less and less about community support and succeeding together. I need to make some sort of effort to counter this shit, because it's hard to watch a place I once loved become... this.
I was really not expecting that to be the first comment on this post. it's good to see people who have been through thick and thin of steemit evolution coming forward to make the steemit paltform more enriching. I'm sure this kind of sanity check will make spammers think twice before deteriorating the quality of this platform.
Has to be done, man. I really hope you will join me in this war-on-spam. Lol
#war-on-spam :D
Hopefully will have more success than all the other war-on-stuffs.
Too fucking right.
Sounds like it could be a trending tag. I'ma have to edit the tags on this one. Thanks :D
These kind of things will never go away, regardless of how hard you try, for example the two biggest players on the internet, Facebook and Google are unable to get rid of the hateful things available on their platforms, spamming is here to stay for a very long time @son-of-satire
I disagree. Facebook is centralized. We are not. We have the power to stand up together and say, no more of this shit. All we have to do, i smake it very clear, that it will not be tolerated.
I used my first flag yesterday :(. I've been getting more comment spam lately. I find a majority of the comments I receive appear genuine, but this "chick" was talking about photos of me on one of my posts, and I don't have photos of me in any of my posts.
Lol. Yes. After close examination, I have noticed that some of these spam accounts are completely automated. They cycle through templates when they use comments, and their content is sourced straight from trending sites.
Crazy man. I bet there is probably one singular entity behind a large portion of them too.
Really enjoyed your post on whatever it was about, can't remember. Please read my posts now HERE because I read yours, now you read mine. You can find out how to earn more $$$$$ by changing your vote strategy (hint: self vote). Big shout out to @berniesanders
Plz follow, follow for follow, vote for vote, eye for eye
Love this, only I am sure they aren't reading the posts at all. Lol
i just had a flea ask me to upvote and he didn't even upvote mine - i unfollowed him - but i should learn to use flagging -thanks for your humor
Yeah, I think this last hardfork has really changed things. I have over 900 followers, and my posts recently will be lucky to get 30 votes. They are more powerful though.
But, someone the other day, commented on a post of mine saying they loved it, it made them laugh etc.. But, still didn't upvote it. And, that was after 20minutes and it was on like 15 views and 0 upvotes. Lol.
People are becoming too stingy. I still vote 100% all the time. Yes, it depletes your power quickly, but it's not like you can actually run out.
My full upvote is 4c an when i use too many it drops lower, i have people who upvote and it is worth 0, but i still appreciate it as like a like on facebook. A lot of people are only chasing money here, so they get involved in curation trails and don't upvote anyone personally. Others are not upvoting cause they have so few to give each day. I appreciate your replay and it is good to start to get to know you-David
I am hoping that they will amend the voting power, so that you can get at least 12 100% votes a day without it depleting
As long as it goes down this quickly people will continue to withhold their votes even on posts that they thoroughly enjoyed.
I appreciate the comment too. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Yup, ive been meaning to start doing the same.
But my conditions are a like this.
If you post that garbage comment on my post without upvoting my post atleast at 1% just for the fcking sake of upvoting my shit because you decided to come by and ask me to upvote your shit!!
Wtf is that!!
That pisses me off more than anything..
Anyone who has been here more than 1month knows better.
So i agree with handing out flags.
Trust me, start doing it too, or things will only get much worse as newcomers take their cue from those who are spamming on every post. Try to think of it as doing them a favour, because you are. They will have a much better time here if they actually take the time to engage properly.