Much as I like apps like @partiko and eSteem they do have some limitations. Both provide notifications, but those are open to abuse. Whenever someone tags me in a post my phone will buzz. There is a set of accounts that have been doing this for a eh, but in the last couple of days it has gotten ridiculous. Most of them are called followx where x is one of several letters and they all do the same thing saying you should upvote certain posts to optimise your curation rewards. They are obviously generated automatically and nobody is interacting with them. I see be extra votes when I get mentioned.
I am getting dozens of notifications each day and have taken to giving them some downvotes even though most such posts will earn nothing. Some do get votes and I see that they are all sending Steem to an account called @sliverwang that had never posted. That has been around since the start of last year, but has less than 2000 Steem.
I'm not sure this activity will stop even if many of us flag the posts as there is no significant cost to operating the accounts. What we really need is notification filtering. The simplest easy would be to not show them if we mute/block an account. It's that in the road map for any dapps?
Steem on!
