Messy!
That is my first thought when I think of all the bot, spintax and auto-generated comments on Steemit.
So what can be done to improve it?
I think a monthly flag by a panel of witnesses would be excellent in cases such as the one linked below and also the ability to prevent "user notifications" by abusers:
https://steemit.com/health/@luiza/myths-about-coffee
The comments are completely ruining posts made by authors putting in effort and most importantly their time! It would also be super demoralizing thinking your post was popular but turned out to be a bot malfunctioning..
So what else?
When an author decides to use multiple upvoting services a thread gets messy very quickly.. It pretty much hinders commenting..
I know the services want to attract users but this is not the way to do it.
I suggest any of these options:
Having known upvoting service comments moved to the bottom of a post if they contain the usual comment/regex.
Upvoting services giving the author the ability to not post a comment after upvoting e.g. with sending SBD with a memo flag like:
"https://steemit.com/health/@luiza/myths-about-coffee -nocomment"
Or even only allowing the first upvoting service comment to show in a sort of "the author decided this bot was the most beneficial" to his post and therefore used this service first.
If you liked this post please see the following others:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@wux/steemit-improvements-user-profile
https://steemit.com/steemit/@wux/steemit-improvements-or-flagging-downvoting-comments
https://steemit.com/steemit/@wux/steemit-improvements-or-pay-to-remove-your-own-post
https://steemit.com/steemit/@winstonwolfe/the-bots-are-getting-out-of-control-and-it-s-kind-of-tainting-steemit-for-me
Thanks for reading!
