You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Fighting back against the spam accounts
Sadly a reality on most platforms @rahvin84 keep true to what you do and just report those who are clearly in the wrong. If you are following just stop following, enough people use the 'no follower' route in essence drop their numbers.
Perhaps some groups should put up an area for warning others like within TeamSouthAfrica and TeamAustralia to alert the whole team to do a "no follow'?
I only follow those whose work I find interesting @joanstewart. I won't follow someone just because they follow me. The only way I ran into the accounts mentioned above is because they are blindly just following people (75,000 odd in the Ramsay case). How do we encourage other people to not blindly follow when they're frustrated by low post returns and are only too happy to have more followers (even though these accounts hardly ever upvote any comments and hardly engage with followers)?
I sincerely hope the other "teams" are enforcing a no spam policy with their members but it still doesn't solve the problem of the spammers who don't belong to those groups.
I know it's like playing whack-a-mole. For every one we identify and report two more are likely to pop up but what else can we do?