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RE: @the.masses account has been shut down :(
Aw, you didn't have to shut it down, I had that under control. :) I wrote a cute little script to publish a comment every 20 seconds so that the real spammer couldn't get a post in edgewise. Witness it in action here (you'll have to reveal it, since it was down voted to oblivion): https://steemit.com/spam/@the.masses/456123
The real spammer would have gotten bored after a while and gone away. :)
Oh, that part was you? lol. I thought the spammer was just trying to flood the network with garbage :)
I appreciate the effort to fix the account!
The comments were one of the main things that people liked to use the account for though. With it being blocked for the spammer, it would be blocked for the rest of the community too.. This also wasn't the only incident with it causing issues. (It was more the last nail in the coffin.)
I do think that this latest incident is a good indication that the account should be lay to rest.
Thanks a bunch for your support!
Haha, I just wanted to see if I could stop the actual spam. I couldn't think of a good way to do it other than to make unobtrusive spam. Still spam, but better spam. :)
Yeah, I think accounts with public posting keys are an interesting idea but will ultimately tend to being used for spam.
see my post in the other thread. there is a way to make it work.
https://steemit.com/@sigmajin/re-themasses-anybody-know-how-to-write-a-bot-to-delete-comments-by-this-account-20170127t134033986z
edit -- though im not sure if this would work at all with steemit.com to broadcast the one party signed transaction (or even to log in for that matter). That said, it would probably be really easy to make a web interface to broadcast the initial transaction no log in and the public posting key wif right in the function.
:)