This Happened Yesterday - From the Spam Frying Pot

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Not sure if many have had a chance to see @CommentWealth in action. Last month @geke and @jimitations launched @commentwealth. I really liked their initiative and felt that I would like to help out and plug the program where and when I can. I had a chance this weekend and hit the bullseye.

Bullseye

First a little bit more about their @commentwealth initiative. @commentwealth does not follow or upvote content and is not a bot.

Instead, CommentWealth will post comments and occasional project updates, upvote the quality comments of others, and occasionally flag comments that spam, bully, or pander. (As CommentWealth and its voting power grows, you can request its help in flagging or discouraging comment spam by contacting @geke on Discord.)

Click here to read the introductory post. I'm sure that you will agree with the premise.

A second chance

I was on a post and interacting with the post, in the comments. This is less about the post than the comments. In the comments I saw the typical plopped in SPAM comment. Now this is not my post, but the people on the post were getting at the spammer.

spam comments

I checked out his blog and comments and it seemed that it was a pattern. So, I flagged it. Later in the afternoon, and I don't know why, but I thought about why I flagged the comment as opposed to trying out a @commentwealth approach.

I went back in and unflagged the comment and then posted a reply that I grabbed from @commentwealth's scripts for spam response.

CommentWealth trolls for trolls and spams the spammers... please be aware @----- that consistent spam comments like yours might eventually result in flags, which hurt your reputation and earning potential. Linking to your own posts in another Steemian's comment thread is really bad form. Next time, try engaging with the author in a way that builds true community here on Steemit!

Holly Hell - Guess what happened!

spam reply

I received a response and it was positive. I had engaged in behavior change and it felt good. Here was a relatively new Steemian stepping out and trying stuff, inadvertently crossing the line, but looking for help. Now I was in it though. I could not just post my comment like that and run. @sanmi was looking for advice and I felt obligated to help.

advice for sanmi

I wish @sanmi the best of luck running his contest.

So, we can all run around and yell SPAMMER, SPAMMER, spammer until we are blue in the face, however, unless we step up and do something about it the problem will continue. If you have any SP to delegate, @commentwealth is a great recipiant for your generosity.

And now for something completely hilarious.