Steemit is a social platform built with so much integrity and known for originality in posts and articles amongst its users thereby making it one of the world's top most sites in terms of trust, quality and educative information, originally created by its users and first class article carrier. Steemit also happen to be the first social networks that rewards its users for quality and credible contents, shared on the community and based on these facts, some lazy users tends to misunderstand and misuse steemit ideologies, thereby trying to turn the platform into money spinner in dubious manners.
WHAT IS SPAM.
A spam can be referred to as an irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware or any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes. The term spam is gotten from "spiced ham", the first tinned meat product that needs not to be refrigerated. Its use spread as a result, becoming part of the communal meals of the United States and Russian armies during the Second World War. Spam is unsolicited email that is normally comes with an advertising content sent out as a mass mailing.
WHO IS A SPAMMER
A spammer is a person who creates electronic spam or someone who sends spam
CHARACTERISTICS OF SPAM
(1) Spam messages comes mostly in the form of address links with its sender unknown and in most cases spoofed.
(2) Eye catching subjects are usually used in order to get its target users to open them.
(3) Spam messages does not come with a reply address.
(4) Spam messages come with advertising contents, website advertisements, dubious ways to make money easily, miracle products, property offers, or simply lists of products on special offer.
WHY WE MUST FIGHT SPAM ON STEEMIT
Because spam comes with untraceable identities of the sender, no reply address and usually contains attachments and malware, dubious spammers tends to use spam links to inject virus into a system which enables them to hack into the system thereby taking absolute and total control of the whole system in other to steal, steal owners account and make away with everything monetarily useful and this is not what we want for our steemit community.
WHAT WE MUST DO TO PREVENT SPAM ON STEEMIT
The first thing you must do as a good steemian is to flag any posts, comments, replies that suggests spam content and report such users to the appropriate account review channels for verifications and action follow up.
STEEMIT ANTI SPAM CRUSADER
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