Some Steemians have been reporting spammers (and the growing problem of spam on Steemit) and asking others to downvote them.
@StellaBelle had a nice idea to reward people who fight spam with an upvote, but I think she got overwhelmed and can't upvote everyone.
So, what if we were to reward each other for using our Steem power for this task?
Here is how it could work:
1.) I'll leave a task of spam for you to fight.
2.) You downvote that person's posts as much as you want.
3.) Leave a comment here linking to your profile on Steemd.com so we can see your work. Like this: https://steemd.com/@iamgrateful
4.) Upvote (suggested, not required) and resteem (required) this post.
5.) Give an upvote or upvotes equal to one third of the power of your downvotes to another spam fighter by upvoting their comment on this page (if you downvoted a spammer $1 you should upvote a spam fighter $.33). If there are no other spam fighter comments on the page when you do this then come back later and give the upvote then (please). If you have to give a few upvotes to different people to match the one third that is fine (and probable).
Note: We are also hoping that lurkers who read this post but may not participate in downvoting will upvote those that do to help us to get the right reward level. I'll adjust things if this doesn't work.
6.) I will go to your comment and calculate how much steem power you used. For every dollar you downvoted, I will put $2 as your target reward. So, in my comment I will say, "This person used $1 of SP to fight spam. Please upvote this comment to the $2 level."
That's it! The idea is to fight spam and make sure people are motivated to do it via rewards.
OK? SOUND GOOD?
Let's give it a try....
This post talks about a jerk who is stealing big time using Whaleshares
He's literally about to make a few hundred bucks off of spam!!!
Here are the posts of his that need downvoting:
$52: https://steemit.com/travel/@lykendream/the-culture-is-in-me-not-on-me
$45: https://steemit.com/love/@lykendream/don-t-judge-a-story-you-haven-t-read
$42: https://steemit.com/comedy/@lykendream/lol-so-so-so-true
$49: https://steemit.com/travel/@lykendream/california
OK? Ready? GO! Let's downvote this thief into oblivion!
Thank you! And if you have any questions please let me know. This is my first-time setting up a post like this so maybe there are ways I should improve it as well.
follow me for more spam fighting posts like this one! :)