Steemit Comment Spam Honeypot Concept
I have an idea for a way to help hoover up the low-effort spam jerks on Steemit.
A comment spam honeypot.
Ok so the definition of honeypot would seem to exclude this idea (checks Wikipedia) ...
... but stay with me.
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Wouldn't Steemit comment areas be nicer without this kind of rubbish?
It's not like our posts get rewarded by bot-engagement.
All it would take is to post an article that says "Please do not comment, I am hunting spammers", then anyone who comments would be added to a list of potential flag targets.
What do you think?
Image credit for the hard of thinking is Wikipedia as mentioned and in the screenshot and Disney. Oh and Spam is a registered trademark yada yada
It's a good idea, but if I made a bot and this idea is implemented, I would program the bot to avoid comment the posts which content the phrase "not comment" or the sub-string "spam". To solve this i think the spammers honeypot should include the "please don't comment" in images with some "noise" to avoid the image character recognition techniques (OCR).
Good idea!
Haha...interesting
I'm new to Steemit, but I noticed many users commeting on posts of beginners with links to their guides on how to use Steemit and link to follow them. Not sure if it counts also as honeypot, but it's definitely something I don't like.
Technically you can do that with any post ^^ it's fairly obvious what's spam and what's not.
Easier to automate when the post clearly states don't comment on this :)
You could have a weekly automated post yeah.
It could by easier, we can just start analysing the Blockchain for duplicate content and the Frontends can then remove those comments from the list automatically.
Good idea :)
What you mentioned is indeed real, This looks as a big rubbish.
People do not read in the sake of knowledge unfortunately.
You made me laugh at the end anyways
Thanks for this great post bro. Scamming need to be checked greatly.
can you realy get all the bots with this ?
Not all of them, no, but maybe make a dent?
I am not a whale so I wouldn't be able to flag all the spammers anyway :)
Good idea! Only in this way we can stop spammers.
This is really great idea, but my concern is that it'd become a cat-and-mouse game in which the botmakers figure out how to identify honeypots.
Imagine how much worse it'd be with instant account creation, though... shudder
Ugggh yeah that would not be a fun future :/