Help Fight Spam

Hive account@patrice is fighting day-in and day-out to reduce the amount of spam in our community. She needs our help.

Why is spam bad?

Spam takes rewards from the reward pool, which could have otherwise gone to Steemians who are making positive contributions to the community.
Spam uses up space in the blocks, which can reduce the amount of available bandwidth for non-spamming Steemians.
Spam causes the blockchain size to grow, which increases the costs for everyone running blockchain nodes (witnesses, developers, exchanges, etc.)
Spam makes it harder for curators to find quality content.
Spammers are trying to exploit the system by taking rewards without making positive contributions to the community.
Spam is annoying.

What is Hive account@patrice doing to reduce spam?

Hive account@patrice is hunting down spam and downvoting it with her bots Hive account@mack-bot and Hive account@spaminator, to take away rewards from accounts that are spamming.

What do Hive account@mack-bot and Hive account@spaminator do?

Hive account@mack-bot

Flags account immediately after posting for tracking with minimal vote weight.
Flags “High Freqency Posters” with a flag heavy enough to hide their posts.

Hive account@spaminator

Follow up flags to remove payouts on posts/comments 6.5 days after Hive account@mack-bot
Flags new accounts found within 12 hours of payout to remove rewards.

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What can we do to help?

Hive account@mack-bot and Hive account@spaminator need SP delegations so that they have enough SP to counter the upvotes being received by spammers. Based on the current amount of rewards going to known spammers, Hive account@mack-bot needs 20,000 SP in delegations and Hive account@spaminator needs 200,000 SP in delegations.

If this seems like a lot of SP - it is. Think about that though - that is how much SP is needed to counter the upvotes that are currently rewarding spammers! That is a lot of money being paid to spammers, which could otherwise be going to members of the community who are actually adding value.

How to help

You can delegate a portion of your SP to Hive account@spaminator or Hive account@mack-bot, which will help Hive account@patrice counter the abuse.

Here is a post explaining how to delegate using SteemConnect:
How to Delegate SP to another user using the SteemConnect tool from Busy.org

If you don't want to mess with the details in that post, you can just copy and paste these pre-made URLs to delegate specific amounts. To donate to Hive account@mack-bot instead of Hive account@spaminator, just replace spaminator with mack-bot in the URL.

Note - the amounts may be off by very small amounts (0.001-0.1).