There's plenty of junk on Hive. I wondered what all the accounts were with random looking 5 letter names. Looks like they are part of Waivo and may just be used to store data for their system. Anyone can use Hive as a database and they don't even have to worry about downvotes really. I wonder if this will expand. I was actually thinking about some data I could store on the blockchain, but I know there are ways to do it without creating posts or comments.
There's a certain idiot who leaves loads of spammy comments on my posts, but we can't stop that. At least they are mostly hidden. You don't need that much HP to allow a bot to post all day.
Cheers for the interesting data.
There will be some more data to come!
The definition of spam varies from user to user. There is also a list of accounts that I'm curating to flag as "non human" in my data set.
Longer term, we might need to see "competition" for inclusion in blocks, perhaps based on resource credits.
There is a lot of spam, but the resource credits you get for HP are an absolute bargain compared to the amount of crap you can inject into the chain.