It's no secret that I'm not a fan of how SteemIt's reward system works.
I feel that it has a number of massive problems including:
That's a lot to tackle, and I don't think I have nearly enough influence on the platform to really sway anyone on any of these points.
That said, I hate the way the SteemIt platform does a lot of things when it comes to the distribution of wealth, and I hate some of the blatant abuses of the platform that are taking place.
@SteemCleaners is a great community effort that is working on identifying spammy posts, and abusive accounts, and downvoting them. They're one of the few effective spam-fighting measures I've seen on the SteemIt platform.
Want to help? You can report content abuse (Plagiarism or copy/paste of articles from other authors) to SteemCleaners using this link. If you make a good report, they'll reward you with some Steam Dollars (SBD) for your contribution, plus you'll be helping to clean up the platform!
SteemSQL is another great community tool, allowing for anyone to easily query the blockchain without having to know about how the blockchain actually works. The average person with a bit of SQL knowledge can dig into SteemSQL and find a lot of useful data.
I'm working on developing a number of tools that I hope will be useful to the SteemCleaners team for identifying abuse of the system and hopefully making their cleanup efforts a little easier. The tools are going to use SteemSQL to query the blockchain for instances of abuse and present the findings to the SteemCleaners team for review.
Some of the abuses that I'll be looking for will include:
I hope that through this small contribution I can begin to change the SteemIt community based on my vision of how the platform should be operating, and hopefully it will spark some positive change in terms of making the platform better for everyone going forward.
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-Matt
