0000000000001000 - Steemit Interface PoC - Too Much 💩 To Handle
It's with a heavy heart that I start this post. I don't know where my words will lead me, or where my thoughts will follow. Or if my thoughts will come before my words. Who knows?
Yesterday, @endingplagiarism shared that @steemcurator04 was being abused.
Today, @saracampero has highlighted that @steemcurator05 is being abused.
@endingplagiarism was ignored when trying to highlight a scam involving a Crypto Academy Professor - somewhat ironically, the identical scam that @saracampero has highlighted today.
@endingplagiarism has previously found booming02 and booming03 being abused.
And this isn't even the worse abuse that I'm aware of since I signed up less than a year ago.
All the while, I'm working my tits off to create something good.
As you know, I've been working on a new front-end for a little while now. I decided that I'd introduce various "blacklists" to hide the unsavoury elements. The multitude of shit posted under krsuccess to gain $0.02. The highly voted shit via UpVu and Tipu. I was hiding away in the World of Xpilar community, but in starting this project, I reminded myself about how much shit there is on this platform.
So a blacklist clearly wouldn't work. The list would be so long, the processing required to filter it all out would make the site too slow to be usable. The increasing number of new accounts appearing every day with the sole aim of scamming the platform would need adding - a full time job in itself.
And then I remembered a comment I made to @starlord28 a few days ago related to coding:
Garbage In, Garbage Out.
For those unfamiliar with the phrase, if you put shit into a system, your output will also be shit. So what's the point in putting a nice, shiny new front-end on something which is ultimately going to produce shit no matter how sexy it looks. One of my favourite quotes:
You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.
I don't have that much glitter.
So I decided last week that I have little choice - The new front-end would contain a whitelist. Only showing content from users that aren't here to bullshit the platform. In time, this could become automated so that users could get nominated and the "VIP" community could vote on acceptance or refusal. It's clean. No nonsense and we can all live oblivious to the steaming pile of shit that isn't being shovelled.
I also implemented multi-tag selection.
Hi @coding-gorilla, I can understand your frustration and it is true no matter how hard we will try to fight abusers they are there, nothing will stop them. Especially seeing that even our Communities Curators are cheating.
The idea of whitelist and displaying them is great! I absolutely support you. There are many interesting bloggers and creative people, if they will appear on front page then hopefully people will try to be better and to work a bit for getting on it.
Thank you for still having your patience and working through the task!
The idea seems very cool. I'd be waiting to see where it leads us
I think filtering out garbage from steemit could be a bery lengthy task for now but at least alot of people are working towards it. To be very honest, in my 10 month time period of steemit I have notice multiple types of abuse in which the most common one is the users in power, ie, CRs, admins, mods etc indulging in abuse. After that comes the bs bidbots who I'd say, are destroying the quality and the integrity of this platform.
If you get time would you mind telling me about this? You can get my discord on my profile as well as I'll mention it here:
I mentioned it to stef as well, that with the initiation of the community curators, we might be able to get hold of abusers if we stay vigilant. It's only a matter of time, we can collectively get rid of abusers in here.
Ps: huzaifa naveed#3023
I don't want to potentially throw cold water on your coping mechanism, but wasn't the point of a shinier frontend to be appealing to new users? Doesn't incorporating some kind of VIP status into it work at cross purposes to that?
😄 I've just finished writing my next update which I'll post imminently. I've spent the last 2 days solving that problem because my thought process went exactly where yours has!