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RE: A post of very little value.
I went to the @spaminator blog. Looks to be useful. I followed some of the downvoted authors and it looks like you are hitting the ones that need it.
But how much frequency is too much? Today I posted welcome messages to 50 or more new people in introduceYourself. Is that spam?
Frequency is pretty high. You'd need to spend 8 hours a day creating a post every 5 minutes or run a comment bot with more than a few hundred comments a day. 90% of those being flagged are users that have multiple account operations.
I had a look at your welcome comments and because some are similar:
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Someone from the community may see it as spam and report you. @spaminator doesn't flag 'human' commenters normally. We do comment and warn them that they could be flagged by other members of the community.
The few exceptions for flagging human commenters is when they are committing some other type of abuse such as taking another users comments and using them as their own or rewriting them.
OK, Thanks this is very useful. I'm certainly not going to have that level of post. I do like to welcome people on-board though and I find it is a great way to get a conversation started and a new follower.
I just started this today. -- Let me know what you think.
I use a semi-automatic process. I run a query to identify authors with similar interests. Then I review each post briefly and if looks decent, I hit the post button and send the welcome message, but they are just welcomes and nothing more really. No buy this or do this for me and I'll do that for you trash.
If the person responds back, then I engage in a human to human conversation. I believe it is very beneficial to both of us.
So far, not a single person has ever had anything bad to say about the welcome to Steemit message.
What do you think about this type of welcome? Honesty is appreciated.
Personally I think your approach is great. There's too many 100% automated bots out that comment and their owners never even bother to engage the user.
I totally understand the semi-automation. @spaminator & @steemcleaners do much of the same thing with comment templates, reports from the community, and database queries.
I posted an article on tag spam. Let me know what you think about this please.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@bycoleman/naughty-tagger-s-list-tag-spammers-identified-now-the-balls-in-your-court
OK, Thanks. This helps me greatly to know I'm not unintentionally doing any kind of blockchain abuse.
Yes, It would be very easy to put it on full automatic and post every 20.5 seconds. (From multiple accounts for that matter) -- But I believe that is clearly an horrendous use of the platform and would provide very little in the way of useful results, as most of the messages would go to people that hold little in common with the bot's owner.
I followed you. I'll try to support you in these efforts. I'm going to be running a few discovery queries and posting the results each week including tag abuse.
Many blessings.