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RE: Heart To Heart With @yourhelper

in #steemit9 years ago

@yourhelper Not sure if you have noticed but a lot of people are trying to gain Followers on Steemit by using a well known shady practice. I want this to reach out to the Who's who of STEEM so that they can take action in curbing this menace. I recently started publishing reports which potentially identify the users using this technique.. Can you help spread this?

Link to Today's report - https://steemit.com/steemit/@gyanibilli/who-unfollowed-the-most-on-steemit-28th-june-2017-stats-2017630t103527679z

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In your own opinion, how can this issue be corrected? I want a sincere answer. You did not state how the culprits engage in the shady deal neither here nor in your article. It will be good if you can explain further.

Well, I have mentioned this in the report. It's a simple strategy

  1. People follow thousands of people in hope that they will follow them in return
  2. Some people do follow them back
  3. After a few days or weeks they simply unfollow all people whom they had followed
  4. This makes their followers numbers more than following and to a newbie user visiting the profile, it seems that these are really popular users

I think the numbers in the report are a clear indicator. No normal user can unfollow 15,000 people in 1 day

One solution is to curb the number of users we can unfollow or even follow in 1 day. 500px does that!

Your suggestion makes sense. I believe the witnesses are reading posts and some day this can be implemented in the steemit blockchain.

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