Hey Steemian's,
I don't know about you guys, but I have been seeing a ton of spam on Steemit lately, I mean seriously, A TON
I don't like it, not at all, not in my wonderful Steemit playground. I will not stand for it, in fact none of us should. Spammers have the same goal in mind as most people on Steemit:
to make money but the dedicated Steemian's I know, work their butts of for the pennies they make. I don't think we should have to deal with lazy spammers clogging up our work space. That is my opinion anyways.
Although some of us may see it as a secondary benefit to expressing ourselves uniquely on this amazing platform, we can all agree on this, Steemit needs an overhaul if it's to make it in the long run. There is only so much that can be done at the minnow level, we are all aware of this, but even still, we have the power to clean the place up through our voting power.
If you are anything like me, you glance at spam posts and think to yourself, "well, I want to flag this, but my voting power is precious to me, and I would rather utilize it to help my friends."
Yes I think this ALL THE TIME, and because of limited VP, I have passed over spam posts (I'm ashamed to say), but you probably have too, lets be honest, because if you didn't you would probably be at zero VP right now. That's just how flooded it has become.
(What if you can get paid a little crypto for that downvote ;))
If we flag these lazy bastards into the abyss, it will become clear to them, that their spamming BS will amount to nothing on our beloved platform.
So I have devised a way to help!
Some of you may remember my Daily Doge a while back, which slowly died away from lack of support, and a dwindling value in the market. I was much saddened, such depressed about the situation, but our beloved Doge is back on the rise!!
So this is how it will work:
- 250 Dogecoin will be paid in total
- 25 Doge per claim (Current rate makes this 0.11 cents USD)
- 1 claim per Steemit user
(If you decide to claim with multiple accounts, be smart enough to use different addresses, futuremind doesn't like greedy people...If I catch you, you'll get banned from participating)- For any non math calculating individuals, that equates to 10 paid seats.
Participation instructions:
- Find either a spam post, or a spam comment, and flag it. If you have the ability to adjust your vote weight, consider using enough weight to at least equal its value to your payment. (If you don't know what I am talking about with adjusting vote weight, you probably don't have the ability to.) In the case that you don't, just flag the spam.
- Take a screen shot of your downvote, and share it in the comments section of this post.
- Add your Dogecoin address in the comment with the screenshot.
(I will likely verify the downvote via Steemworld, or Steemd)- Upvote and resteem this post (The payouts of future giveaways will be dependent on the posts ability to generate revenue, this one's on futuremind ;)
- Don't even THINK about spamming this post...(Although there would be some hilarity in that...)
Use your judgement folks. Just because you don't like a comment, does not necessarily classify it as spam. Spam posts are generally comprised of posts advertising services that are obvious (or verified) scams, copies of messages that are copied and pasted over and over to fish for upvotes, but contain no relevance to the post they are commenting on, and a couple other things, but I think most of the spam comments are pretty obvious. Here is what Google says about spam. (by definition)
SPAM:
Irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients.
unwanted or intrusive advertising on the Internet.A canned meat product made mainly from ham.
send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet.
If you return with a screen shot of canned meat, I will not award you Dogecoin, lets get that right out in the open...
If you are flagging someone because you do not agree with their opinion, I will not award you Dogecoin. (Be sure to understand the difference between disagreeing with someone, and spam..This is important.)
I believe I have covered all of my bases here. If there is anything that you don't understand, please feel free to ask.
Once all 10 claims are made, I will edit the post with CLOSED in the title.
MINOR UPDATE: Please try to find fresh spam that has not been flagged yet, it's not a stated rule, but the idea is, we will spread our vote power out amongst all of the shit spam, and start working it down, collectively as a group. I hope this makes sense.
