If your comment is "Hi" or "that is nice" or anything that is a kneejerk reaction instead of commenting on the content then it is probably best to not comment. Although to be fair the majority of comments are shit post marketing tricks since you only go say hi , not just you but we all have I think and many do, they only say hi on posts or make some crappy you look pretty generic comment so that person can then go visit their blog. If hive is social media then we have to tolerate that trash and since they feel they are in the same league as real social media then say Hi to your hearts content until they can enforce it in the code because managing community with people can never work. code is law.
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Daddy, can I stay up a little later? Daddy, can I hang out with my friend tonight? Daddy are you married to Mark Zuckerberg? Is spam an exception to the Free Speech Clause of the first amendment?
I don't live in Murica so don't care for their free speech. This is a platform and a blockchain so you need to take it on those merits. I don't care how you comment since it does not affect me. The platform however should have an opinion on it so you do not have entities like hivewatchers roaming enforcing whatever rules they feel like. This again just means that it should be enforced through a defacto ruleset maybe. Such as moderation in communities. If it is your idea of adding value by just saying hi for 50 consecutive comments then so be, free speech may be free but is not free of consequence. Since we are in a "community" governed environment. Just my 2 cents.
Should they go after bots who literally spam new people with the same exact messages, the same exact comments, to people who introduce themselves to Steem, Hive, etc, since at least 2017 or longer, the bots automatically comments on anybody who posts using those certain tags, the hashtags, #introduceyourself, #introducemyself, etc? I say if you are going to create a bot to target comments that might accidentally repeat itself sometimes absolutely or to an extent, then the bot should go after not just people who have repeated comments or whatever comments and posts but also bots too. Why should bots be untouchable? Why should bots be turned into corporations that get out of being required to pay taxes as many find loop-holes and ways to exempt themselves or wire money to offshore banks, etc. I would make the bot target every account that violates whatever you put in the code, the alleged rules, as opposed to selective enforcement which is what Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc, etc, have done, did, many times. Some bots can be like the artificial intelligence (AI), the algorithm, the coding, the programs, etc, found on the social ghetto networks of Facebook, etc.
Them not going after bots is the context I did not have and fair enough. I would say that if we agree hivewatchers is doing something on behalf of the community then both bots and users must be treated equal, this is actually trivial for them to do. If that is the case the criteria needs to be public and we can assume that all the big stake will back them so it is not a case of caring whether the community likes it so with public criteria at least people will know. Obviously, at that point it is another case of finding a new platform because this shit is wack lol.
As you mention though you have dealt with this for a few years now, and I wonder how this has not reinforced a different commenting pattern? To be clear I am not against you commenting hi, I don't care but it is fascinating to know how a person becomes a target so often.
Long story short, I've seen bots go after other bots on Steem. So, it has happened but it seems that it doesn't always happen. I guess it depends on the coding which will tell the bots what to do. Some people have said they have reduced some spam thanks to bots and that may be true to an extent. So, I'm not totally against having bots to the extent bots can discourage spam perhaps, well, until you're accused of being spam yourself kind of thing.
I'd rather get a few "thanks" or "nice post" comments than zero comments.
OMG you on hive finally. To be fair I have not exactly been present, mmm I rarely am but did check out the account a few weeks ago I think. Regardless I would be guilty of being silent until the mood strikes me which is not often since I tire myself with bullshit in DM and discord.
Yes fair enough thanks and nice post is fine, I am a little on the fence about whether that is from people I know or not. I think people I know would say more of substance. But ey you never know what effect those will have and maybe it makes the persons day. I see I have a nice comment to respond to above ;)
There's a proposal to make hive blacklists opt-in/opt-out.
Basically like a mute-list that any individual can create for themself and then others can choose to subscribe or unsubscribe to that user's mute-list (so they don't have to create/maintain their own mute list).
If this gets implemented, I might just abandon the old platform altogether!