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RE: SCAM ALERT: SMS Phishing Hustle Redirects Users To False Coinbase Site
Oh joy... thanks for the heads-up! As cryptos become more and more mainstream, I guess we can expect things like this to become as commonplace as PayPal phishing scams...
Not sure what to think of dlike. Seems like an invitation to send massive amounts of spam to the blockchain... but reserving judgment.
Yeah, that's basically what the whole conversation was about in Discord. Here's part of my reply to the person who reached out to me about it:
That led to a really fun conversation with a number of minnow support mods. The funny thing is, during that conversation, I said if I shared a link and it took a bunch of rewards, I might flag it myself to bring the rewards down. In this particular case, I kind of think the information is really valuable though. My plan is just to decline rewards on my next post, so it's kind of the same thing, I guess.
I agree, we don't get to decide what social media is. There's a place in the world for things like Pinterest and social curation sites like Scoop.it and stumbleupon (now "mix"). There's a place in the world for memes, animated gifs and all manners of other things.
Dlink could totally add value, if used "responsibly."
Therein lies the rub... pretty much anything can be used responsibly... or compulsively, to try to extract every possible drop of rewards. It's like the old "spoons don't make you fat" dilemma. Of course they don't. Eating two pounds of pudding for desert every night is what makes you fat.
Obsessively posting 300 links a day in search of rewards is what creates spam. Or potentially creates spam. I'm not a slave to work=value, either... I'm more oriented towards the approach Google took back in 2011 when they rolled out the "Panda" initiative to put the lid on search spam: Maximize user enjoyment of the web experience.