I have a massive blacklist blocking users who post stolen content and spam, also banned dmania and steemshot from being rewarded. The SteemBotTracker ties my hand from doing anything like a whitelist. SmartSteem tried the whitelist approach and didn't work. Very few bots blacklist and even fewer do the research to find abuse.
The best I can do right now is to stop serving the people who plagiarize, spam, scam, and fraud.
Unfortunately, it is very time consuming and ends up with a lot of retaliation abuse. I still spend 10-40+ hours a week on it.
There is a system in place to discourage these types from participating in vote bots and voting circles, but it is not being used.
< sarcasm >Whatever though. Good luck with your post here. I hope that changes everything!</ sarcasm >
It actually did its job, it is being discussed heavily in private channels and may result in changes.
Some change would be nice to see. A lot of people are becoming discouraged. By the way, the shit post award is just a joke. I was bored.
I'm not offended :)
You did a great job with the post!
I'm sure you have a good reason -- but could I ask why SteepShot posts are blacklisted? I understand that a lot of stuff on there is super spammy -- but there's also a lot of quality photography content as well.
The amount of SteepShot content I have seen that has been low effort spam far outweighed the authentic content.
I'm trying to do my best in offering promotion service but reducing the amount of garbage being rewarded.
Thanks for the quickly response, dude.
Fair enough, and that's generally what I had assumed your thought process was. I imagine a lot of the 'general spam' posters that were just tossing up a single image and two word description probably migrated over to that interface -- which is unfortunate because I feel that SteepShot is a nice clean app for android phones.
Is there any way that a blacklist could be imposed on users below a certain reputation score, rather than on an entire app? I would reckon that's something you'd thought of previously though... Just brainstorming and spitballing...
Right now reputation isn't a factor as it is easily gamed up or down.