I asked few questions from you in my Mana - What Has Changed? post. Obviously I didn't get as much answers as @themarkymark did in his post, but every single answer is important to me. Thank you for answering!
Go and leave a comment to How do you feel about Hard Fork 20? post too if you have important things to say. Your comment on @themarkymark's post might have a bit wider audience and bigger influence, especially if you have some ideas about what could be different here in Steemit.
I wanted answers and I got answers! Now let's look at those one by one.
Is there spam in your posts as much as there was about a month ago?
- No spam @bluerobo
- Almost Zero spam. Before the fork it was a nightmare. @trincowski
- I don't really post that much, but I do get more attention these days. Not much spam, though that might be changing? @eccles
- Holy crap! Where did all those spammers come from?! There I was hoping to read a few responses and there's 6 inane comments!! Did you trigger them by writing 'spam' or something? @minismallholding
- Whats up with this spammers XD. Are you creating all of these accounts? @cave-man
(If I missed anyone's answer, please inform me.)
I swear, I didn't do this. I mean, these are not my accounts and I don't control them. I may have triggered those with one or two of my tags, and if so, I may get some spammers to this post too because I want to use the correct tags. Let's see what happens.
Although I don't believe in flagging that much, I had to go and flag them at day 6 because this is one of those occasions when a flag or two is really handy and a good reason to flag someone. To get rid of spam comments. Abuse and harassing is the second and even a better reason than spam.
My answer and opinion
I didn't have that much spam in my posts before HF20 and I don't have it now. Except this one freak occasion. I have never been that popular so I'm not that attractive to spammers I guess. But now that I'm looking at the accounts that are popular and now that time has passed, are the spammers coming back? I think they are. Little by little.
If creating the account is as easy as it was before (or maybe even easier?) and pumping money to the account to get more SP ans RC, how is that exactly reducing other than those spammers who don't want / can't invest money to Steemit?
I'm not exactly sure what the one or two liner comment spammers hope to achieve on their comments, but nevertheless those are in the way of real comments and real people. I can only guess what would happen if more people would be fooled by those kind of comments, answer to them and the accounts start to gain more rep and of course profit from curating and maybe invest some money too.
Those accounts could also be here to find week spots. Or it might be that in the future, at some convenient time, the comments wouldn't be this nice as they are now. Those comments could also be hate speech. Those accounts could be dormant weapons. Agitators. I don't know. But you have to admit it is possible. As a matter a fact very likely too. You never know.
Do you have any wild guesses or elaborate schemes on the origins and purpose of these accounts?