Anti-Spam in the Era of Bots and Automation
steemit·@anyx·
0.000 HBDAnti-Spam in the Era of Bots and Automation
<html> <h1>How do we fight fire? With fire of course.</h1> <p>Many of us have started to notice the influx of spam as bots start posting automated content, usually plagiarized, to our wonderful website. Right now, there is not much a single user can do to prevent these posts. Personally, I am sick of it, so I created my own bot to help fight the abuse: I have started gathering a Ban List, and am adding accounts to it that are notorious for spam. They will be automatically flagged (downvoted), and a reply will be posted.</p> <hr> <h1>How can YOU help?</h1> <p>You can help in three simple ways:</p> <ol> <li>Always flag posts that are spam, plagiarism, otherwise low quality, or clearly posted by bots.</li> <li>Find bots that are spamming: report them to us (so we can add them to our ban list).</li> <li>Upvote the good bots! The more power you give to our good bots, the more weight they have in their downvoting of spam.</li> </ol> <hr> <h1>Going forward.</h1> <p>I am hoping to partner up with other wonderful people, many of whom are active in the #steemitabuse channel on slack. I am going to continue working on my bot, to make it better at detecting bad content.</p> <p>If you are interesting in helping, there is a bounty available for plagiarism detection:</p> <p>https://steemit.com/steem/@cryptoctopus/usd500-bounty-we-need-this-now</p> <p>And you can always join us on slack! If you have concerns about the bot, feel free to chat with me there.</p> <p><br></p> <hr> <h1>My personal bot, @cheetah, is now on the prowl.</h1> <p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Cheetah_Kruger.jpg/1280px-Cheetah_Kruger.jpg" width="1280" height="839"/></p> <p>Photo by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mukul2u">User Mukul2u</a> , from wikipedia.</p> <hr> <p>Special thanks to the following people for being awesome in the spam fighting initiative:</p> <p>@xeroc (for Piston, an instrumental tool), @cryptoctopus, @pfunk, @ash, @neoxian, and all the others.</p> <hr> <hr> <h1>A quick edit, using some of this attention.</h1> <p> I personally really support this proposal: https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/176 Please have a look! I hope that this bot is only a band-aid, and that we can fix the real problem at the roots. </p> <p>Also, there is now a nice spot to help with flagging: #doyourpart</p> </html>
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