RE: Steemit suffers from spam messages
Hi, @zzan.witnesses,
It is not a new thing. People have already abused the faucet in the past by creating hundreds of accounts and using them to their voting rings or flag wars. So Steemit had to occasionally remove its delegation to thousands of them.
The 0.01 fee is too big of a change, especially for onboarding and games that rely on repeatedly broadcasting data to the chain. Without mentioning that 0.01 is too small to stop people who have serious malign intentions toward Steem.
As we have already suggested before, we should first start by removing the delegation to these accounts. Anything else that can be done on the UI level to filter spammer is really easy since no change will be needed on the Steem code.
All in all, we should always be careful when dealing with these things since the intention of people who are doing this is unknown, trying to push the Steem community to react in a specific way is one possible reason.
Regarding the backup witnesses, I am in support of any change that will give us a curve that will give more rewards to sub 20 witnesses.
Thank you,
I agree with you, @symbionts. Imposing posting fees may limit spam, but it may also limit the use of new dapps on steem. Removing delegations to fraudulent accounts or reducing delegation time can be a step.
Thank you for your opinion.
@symbionts Thank you for your opinion.
I also basically agree with your opinion. We're not the first to go through this, but as the overall number of posts declines, it's becoming more visible. We may have to fight the downvoting war once again. (Thank you for providing the downboating train.)
Also if the 0.01 fee is cheap, we can set the rule. For example, one post a day is free as it is now, but two and three times are paid by square.
Or we can increase the fee. The this value cannot be fixed at this time.
But I know it's not fundamental. I want to fundamentally solve this problem.
I would like to share this topic with many people. Maybe somebody has a better way.