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Of course being a social money platform someone is playing silly buggers and - just don't check the created tag unless you like stupid pictures in your face.
So I'm just putting it out there an idea that I presented a long time ago - that especially whales find it amusing to exploit the network with some form of spam that they can cream an extra profit from - so, give them a way to get that return without having to do any work.
The solution is to make a second form of staking (blurt power) that doesn't give votes. We could even give it greebly name like 'blurt milk' to play on that side of it, but it would be the same.
It's cheap and easy to run spambots but it's even cheaper to just get paid.
In the meantime, I advise you log in and mute certain users who appear frequently on the 'new' post list that you can find on other than blurtter.com who have taken the wise step to disable that tab.
Much of the solution is user level at this point, the losses to the value of the token are hypothetical and it takes time to build and ensure a change is done correctly. I am of the opinion that it is not such a bad thing it just doesn't play nice with social network. App and site operators should want to filter the un-loggedin feeds and this is why Hive talks about sharing those blacklists, though I say it should be easy on the app to just import them, sorted by whatever criteria, you can do some nice social network analysis on the mute/follow chains between users to compute these values automatically.
If this solution is done instead, and the damage is mitigated rather than eliminated, I think it is a more sustainable solution anyway. We have some interesting possibilities for discovering how to crowdsource trustworthy information gathering. The problem of manipulating social media is hardly restricted to just these graphene chains...
Does that mean the 40 dicks is going away 🤣
I'm sure it will. It's not something you want your children to see or really to see it yourself unless you really are into that sort of thing. We will try to steer the best path towards the long term solution, my personal viewpoint is it is possible to do it with existing chain data and a more wary attitude towards user submitted content (which is usually about 50% malicious when you measure it across the whole internet).
We will be upgrading the basis of the platform in the future to be resistant to this kind of abuse. There's sad people in the world, sadly.
interested in seeing proposals with long term solutions.. in the mean time the "mute" button does wonders. Pretty simple to customize your feed, follow those you like, and mute those you dont. Beyond that a real solution will be needed to reduce the spam transactions from taking up block space..
It looks like we can fix the problem by using a plugin system, related to the updated resource allocation system (the budgets allowed per user account for bandwidth consumption). I think we will have some sort of solution up and running within a few days worst case scenario.