I am ready to fight abuse with my DV power. I already did it yesterday, after @stef1 brought us again to the attention of content thieves of art. That is so mean. Nobody wants to be robbed of their intellectual property. If these users also get rewards for it, art and texts become stolen goods. That must not be tolerated!
But I see a problem: The users you name are rather small. At the moment only @steemcurator01 with its high SP can do something against the really big abusers (see Trending-Page), if we don't form a well organized group (via delegations?). Alone, nobody has a chance against "the big ones", the fear of igniting a "Flag-War" prevails.
yeah i saw that one yesterday and was not impressed either, yes these smaller accounts are just spamming external links mainly, interestingly most of them have delegations from the Steem account
That's a signup issue i believe and am not sure how we could stop that, new accounts need a hand (sp) so they have some Resource credits to use for commenting/posting/voting etc..
Yes, of course. And it is very good, that Steemit provides it. As I've seen they start to take away the opening SP from users people like us uncover. That's a good step.
Maybe some kind of "posting fee" might avoid the spamming of small accounts. But I don't know how you can implement this without restricting honest newcomers in their actions.
Thank you. Trying to find solution acceptable to the whole community is difficult.
Any particular accounts you feel need bigger downvotes?
Oh yes, I believe that!
Well, what happens if I name them here?!
Okay, a very good way to discover abusers is the "Abuse Finder" by @steemchiller. This is a very mighty tool, but hardly anyone uses it.
Many accounts that are displayed with it use @upvu. Whether this is an abuse is often discussed. If this service is used excessively, it is abuse for me personally. I do not know exactly what your opinion is about this.On the one hand you ask the users in your announcements not to use this service, on the other hand you seem to tolerate it. On this point I really don't want to interfere and don't want to denounce anyone.
Then there is the "haejin-empire", which used to be strongly fought against in former times. Take a look at the account of goulash and who supports his daily multiple postings (especially ranchorelaxo who is owned by haejin, but there are many more). This is quite a big deal, isn't it?
Many thanks for your ear... :-)