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RE: Fighting back against the spam accounts
If what you say is true then I foresee small groups of genuine contributors that pretty much keep to themselves and upvote each other surrounded by a sea of spam. Groups like @teamsouthafrica or the Aussies that set up their own territory within Steemit and police their members while fending off spam within the group but not being able to stop what happens outside of it.
How sustainable would that be? Wouldn't Steemit just fall apart? Perhaps this is just the first iteration and if Steemit folds then the next platform will hopefully learn from the mistakes.
I still think we should fight back though. There are people like @sherlockholmes and @stellabelle and many others that are fighting back. We should too, in whatever way we can.
I've seen people use this strategy myself. They agree to strategically upvote each other's content regardless of quality, and play by a strict set of upvoting rules within the group.
I'm quite new to Steemit so I'm not one to make any judgment, but I see these initiatives as something that may quickly lead to Steemit dying off in the not so distant future.
I agree that there are dangers to initiatives like this especially if there is an automatic upvote. The trick is for the group to self police itself and discourage its members from posting spam.
Team South Africa for example has something set up where a post automatically triggers a set number of votes but I'm certain that if I were to start posting spam the others would quickly "have a word" with me and if I refuse to stop I would be quickly kicked off the curation trail.
It all comes down to the community, specific groups or the whole Steemit community to discourage spam and encourage quality, even if there is money to be made in just circle voting each other's spam. I guess it comes down to integrity in the end and realizing that quality in the long run will be much more rewarding than just making a quick few bucks with spammy posts.
I'm afraid you may be right... Spam might be the death of Steemit if we don't do something about it.
I am a newbie (only posting 3 weeks), so still learning my way around, and the dynamics of everything.
I'm working on the possibilities. lol
Thanks for the links to the others who see potential issues
Cheers
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?