What the bleeding heck guvnor? Is @meesterboom advocating the spam now??
No, no. Don't worry. What I did notice today and even yesterday was a remarkable uptick in ridiculously barefaced scammy spammers.
But surely a spammer is a spammer I hear you merrily cry as if you were one of my merry band and I, a man in colourful tights with my foot astride a log in a forest clearing. (To all US citizens, tights = pantyhose. Incidentally, pantyhose? That's a strange strange word.)
So what particular event got me all pontificate'y on this subject?
There I am, in the aftermath of a blizzard, sledging in the snow with the little lady. She is squealing with delight and tearing down the slopes. I get my phone out to take some amazing footage of her haring down at breakneck speed.
As I am fiddling with the camera. A notification pops up from Discord.
Hello Sir, May you help me?
My initial instinct as ever is to immediately reply Bite ma banger which is a quaint Scottish term. If you need me to spell it out, the banger part implies a pork sausage. There, easy to work out now!
Instead, my kinder side comes out and I quickly flick open the chat.
Yes I can help you but I am busy, I will be back online in half an hour or so.
Look at me, the King of Kindness!! No peon is beneath me, I will help all with my fair hand. Whether it is a tickling they want or a punch in the happy place, they can count on me.
Sir can you give me tips for to improve my Steemit standing.
Was the response. Given that I was trying to take a photo I was surprised at my diplomacy.
Beat it arse-face, I told you it would be later.
I then put my phone into airplane mode and enjoyed the rest of the sledging.
By the time I had gotten home and engaged my full on chillax I had three seperate chats flashing away. I answered SpamFarmer1.
Me: Right fannybaws. How can I help you?
SpamFarmer1: I want to know how to make my posts better, can you look at one?
Me: No thank you. I do not judge peoples posts because quality is subjective and inevitably it is not an honest critique that people want. Instead, they want to know how to make as much money as they can for no fucking effort whatsoever.
Despite me saying no, SpamFarmer sends shitpost link. I look at it. Its three lines of text with a photo of what looks like a potato shaped like a vagina that has exploded. Apparently, it's a meatball.
Me: I said no, however as you ignored that. Your post is shit. You need to put more effort into them.
SpamFarmer1: OK, thank you. Can you upvote it please?
Me: FUCK OFF.
SpamFarmer1: OK, sorry. Can you give me 1 SBD
Me: What? Are you for real? Why? Why would I give random chat beggars SBD?
SpamFarmer1: Sir. I am NOT a BEGGAR.
I blocked him. That's not begging? What the feck is then? I was rather surprised though. No-one has ever just asked for SBD from me before. Is this a new thing?
Well, apparently it is. Twice more today I have been messaged by random people asking straight up for cash. Of course, they engaged in a bit of chit chat before asking me outright for the SBD. The last one hilariously told me that...
I would like to buy some new clothes. Could you send me 5 SBD?
I replied suavely that if they wanted new clothes they could wear a fucking sack.
Is this the done thing now? Is anyone else getting random chats asking straight out for cash? Or has word gotten out (wrongly) that I am a soft touch?
Perhaps I should change my profile pic to something more menacing? Whatcha think?
A more menacing profile pic? Could work, maybe a 'I downvote beggars' in your bio could work as well, I've noticed you have some room left there :)
Cheers!
Hahaha, I have lots of room there!! Perhaps I should update it!
It has been unreal in Steemit.chat. Sometimes when I go over there I have 50+ messages from Spam Farmers! Unbelievable. We don't even have to go to CoinMarketCap to check the price of Steem. We know when we get slammed with SPAM!
And guys, I've seen comments like "Please upvote my comment".
Taking this to the next level, i.e., comment level.
That is when I put this video from @happymoneyman below their comment.
Lol, that's funny. And nuts!
oh dear, yes I have been asked that too. It's like, what about the post!
You are so right there. When steem goes up, the spamfarmers come a knockin!! When it goes down the chats are eerily quiet!! lol!
Good post-not good situation! Unfortunately there's a lot of shame to go around these days
There is indeed and a lot of daftness!!
Hello nice post I vote you. You vote I post nice hello.
Happy day, yes? I will now require 5 SBD. You pay, yes.
I have followed this content.
Congratulations!
You have been awarded my vote today so vote me, yes.
Very good writing story about life. You seem busy.
I will go away for one donkey and two SBD. Yes.
How for I make good post?
You look my post now.
Wow! I like this so much good post.
10 SBD for me, yes?
I vote you. We make money together now, yes.
... okay I think I'm done.
And in that journey you covered every mail or message I have received in the last two months he. Lol!!
Much SBD for you!!
I make good comment for SBD, yes. You have purchased my friendship good on this day. Yes.
Please sir, upvote for upvote?
I get so many inboxes every day, I literally sigh and roll my eyes every time I receive one. And unless they say hi my name is SpamFamer1, and I would like to cordially try to be your friend, I just totally ignore them
I think they see the high SP, and automatically think, hhmmm, let me ask them for money, not realising how much work goes into getting to a high SP.
Funny little anecdote :)
It took me one month and around 350 comments to earn around about 10 steem. It was a lot of hardwork. Sometimes i felt why don't i just buy them from bloctrades, then i realised it is more fun seeing drops fill a bucket. Requires patience but it is worth it.
Begging can earn up for time being but it is not healthy to build followers and grow a steady income.
Yep. It absolutely doesn't help a long term plan. In fact only hinders it
They do, they dont think anything beyond * how can I work this system for cash!*
I do get to practice my swearing which is rather good. Maybe I should pay them for that :OD
your swearing is rather good!
Lol, I am rather proud of it :O)
how about me chico?
will you give me $5k? hahahah
for a beggar this one's not cheap :D
thick faced
I often see that kind of post
one pic and an obvious blab
sometimes I want to upvote out of pity
but I'd be doing those who work hard injustice wouldn't I?
You would be doing those who work hard an injustice!
For you lass I would give you 5K no bother because you are worth it!! :OD
I just witnessed the lowest of the low spammers. I won't mention names to protect the innocent, but a person's friend died quite suddenly and she made a post about it to share her feelings and donate the proceeds to the person's favourite charity.
The spammer says Very nic ,I liked it very much!
Second spammer says writing is always challenging i like writing i appricate to you thanks for sharing
When does this crap end?
Oh man, I know exactly who and what post you mean. I am off to do some flagging. Shameful, shameful.
I don't imagine this to be a persistent problem if the number of new users declines.
Putting effort into a post or comment that actually contributes to and develops ideas will earn you a lot more per hour than spamming every possible post and annoying dolphins/whales, it will probably take some new users a while to realize that.
The spam farmers who don't change will hopefully notice that they're putting hours of work in to make a couple of pennies and start begging elsewhere - it's up to us as a community to make sure spamfarmers don't succeed.
Quality over quantity.
That's what I hope. I hope it becomes quickly apparent that this 'strategy' is far less effective than actually putting a bit of effort in.
Just hopefully it's not actually working well for them!
Noticed loads of this as well haha, shameless.
Oh man that is bad!
@meesterboom 😎 Hahaha I love your style "no bulshit" great post!!! #But can you send me 1 SBD 😂😂😂 NO NO just joking, Have a great evening. I wait for your next post 😎😎🤗🤗
Greetings 😜 resteemed, upvoted 😁
Lol, and there was me with my finger on the SBD trigger ;O)
Cheers lass!
It's never ending story,and this post will not stop them. 😂😂 You need secretary 👍😁😁😁🤓 hahaha
Hahah, I couldn't have a secretary. I would spend all my time inappropriately ogling at them!
You could use her for another stuff like bringing coffe, some lunch or neck massage when you are busy with does spamfarmers 😂😂 I wish you a lot of patience 😜
Yes, I could use her for that. But where would the fun in that be! hahhaha
Ow just use your imagination 😁
Fun can go always very far hi hi hi 🙈🙈🙈🙊🙊🙊🙊
Everybody is in for EASY money... 😎
Great that you speak your mind and tell them to Fuck off😂😂 RESTEEMED UPVOTED 💪🏻 Keep up the hard work👍
Thanks man, you have to tell them after all :O)
Yes we must stand our ground😂
It was only a matter of time that spammers evolve .. or maybe it can't be really considered evolution, let's say mutate as it's moving into a terrible direction lol
the things one has to cope with on steemit...
It's weird watching them evolve and change to suit whats happening. I wonder if there is some hive mind guiding them hehe
I don't use steemit chat but I'm getting lots of lame Replies to my recent posts like "beautyfull photography" or "interesting thankyou greetings" "upvote please"
But for you, a new menacing profile lion could work. Maybe give it a go.
Damn, I will have to fire up the old fashioned machine in the attic to get to photoshop... and thats not a euphemism!! :OD
The comment spam is quite ridiculous. No attempt to read a post just random comments to garner votes, grrr
(Click to enlarge)
It's gone all demonic,!! :0)
Vagina meatball, how is that not quality content? I feel like I want to follow them now.
HAhahah, oh you should have seen it!
A while ago I had a similar experience. A person asked me to donate the amount of my steem power, because I had a lot in comparison to what he had and the distribution was not fair, can you believe?
They are really shameful, they have no shame at all.
Thank you very much dear friend @meesterboom for sharing this information
I wish you a wonderful week
I really don't like it when new people cove on and compassion about the distribution of steem power. They don't really think it is unfair, they just want a slice of the pie as easily as they can get it. Gits
Hasn’t happened to me. But I avoid chat like the plague and have so far not installed the Discord app.
Being borderline antisocial has some advantages. 😅
Don't install it!! You will be bombarded!!!
Those spamfarmers have a conformist mindset, instead of asking you 1SBD they should ask you for some 1000SBD hehehehe
At least I'm poor, so they won't ask me for money any day ;)
Haha, you are right!! They should up their game!! :0)
I've stopped responding to chats in steemit.chat and discord because I've been spam somewhat. I've been asked to join FB group but I'm afraid it may be more spam. Some people I've also blocked in steemit.chat and more I've muted on steemit. What do I think?
I think you don't know there is this emoji:
https://emojipedia.org/reversed-hand-with-middle-finger-extended/
Doesn't work for Windows 7 though :-)
I hadn't seen that one!
I am considering coming off any of the chats. I stayed off for so long and then gave in. It is just a madhouse. It must be the SP, they see it and go berserk thinking they can get some by annoying you
Perhaps you're right.
Who asks straight for SBD with out doing any effort. Its outright begging.
I know we are all here to get paid for posting, To earn some money. But it is not free money, it is not walk in the park. Efforts have to be put in . There are a lot of things one can do. You can curate, you can post blogs, you can make comments on people post & more. If you cannot do all of these things then at-least participate in photo contests, they are easiest a lot.
You are right, so many ways to get going. When I first started and was earning nothing I ferment I did a lot of contests. It was good for getting noticed.
There are just so many ways but they choose to do the least. Smh
Ridiculous!
Begging for cash, follow or upvote on shit stuff is a common thing now a days. I don't know why people always try to find shortcuts for permanent success. I have received a lot messages asking upvote for upvote or follow for follow. I always try to guide people that success never come from begging or walking the easy path. If you want success hard work is the only key.
Steemit community is so generous and pure and spammers, scammers or beggars does not deserve to be here.
They don't care, they are not very clever. I'd they were they would realise there are better ways to do things but they are just in it for the easy ride
Lol...
I can imagine how much messages you get daily. Spammers on the rise.
Steemit should be about creating relationship and then growing but hell no, one buddy from God knows where just wanna get rich quick.
I do get a bit. I am quite mean to them so am always surprised
I've been away too long. Riotous as always! The gluten free bit is pure gold. Online panhandling... amazing. O, ye of little shame. Ha!
Hehe, good to see ya!! Oh yes, can't be having all that nasty gluten lol!
People never seize to amaze me and when their is money involved they totally go crazy.... guess that is why I prefer animals over most humans. As always enjoyed reading and I will also swear at them
It's definitely the money. It reduces people to their basest components!
Haha this made me LOL. So many one liners in your post here. It's amazing how different some of the english terms you use. I have ever used in my life, but they are still hilarious. I guess they just didnt make it across the pond.
Bite ma banger has gotta be my favorite
Bite ma banger does have a certain flair. Hehe, I am one liner city say times, Cheers!
spam tastes delicious.... :D well, atleast your spam farmers have the courtesy to do chit-chat... all i get is straight up links.
Yuk. I never liked the little fatty bits. It was something that puzzled me as a lad when I was force fed it!
i haven't had it often. but we basically convert it into spam curry here :D and it's delish...
I am a sucker for anything curried right enough!
Even I get these solicitations on Didscord and they ask me to vote for them, my vote is currently worth .01 cent (I couldn't even put a 's' on the end of that because it isn't even two cents!). Why in the world would you even ask me to vote for you! You know, the problem is the spammers aren't doing their research ;)
They are definitely poorly organised! Myself and @jedau were considering opening a school for them. Teaching them how to do a proper job! :O)
Hey sir, I need a new pair of edible thongs. Can you either send me 5000 SBD or if you have any used edible thongs, I can take them too?
Thank you.
Why dont I send you the 5000 wrapped in edible thongs! :OD
Even if I'll be sent edible thongs, I'll eat them and post it.
I would love the face of a wine merchant when I'd ask what is his wine recommendation for edible thongs.
"Something cheap and strong"
Something cheap and strong hahahah, definitely!
I could imagine the word spreading that you're a nice and honest guy... But that doesn't mean you're a Robin Hood or an extreme communist 😜 If that spammer would update an image of him wearing a sack, he will defenetly get an 100% upvote from me (for sure when he is wearing some "tights" too)!
Hahah, that would probably get him a full upvote from me too! lol!
Can you pls sir vote my posts too. I will be grate full. or can you give me some SBD to use bot to vote?
Thanks. I appreciate it in advance.
@seyiodus.
The second ne who asked asked for 1 SBD and they said it was so that they could use a vote bot to get on trending, oh how I laughed!
hahaha I am on the right track. Thank you for the advance sir.
You post is very refreshing. You are one of these guys with this humor, I would compare it: imagine you are outside in 120 degree heat and you just drink your cold beer.
I’m not going to ask you for SBD’s, I don’t want to give you a reason to block me. Instead I would like to put an effort to help you by resteem, upvote and if I could like, retweet, resend....
Well thank you for your honeyed words!! :O)
Thanks for sharing :) Gluten free and spammers free is exellent start for Sunday.
Yeah, who needs that gluteny spam!
Thanks to spam all of us have something that we can hate together.
Spam unites the souls and makes us smile!
it does, hurrah for SPAM! Oh, that does sound wrong though hehe
I haven't gotten any requests because I'm a nobody, not of steemit nobility like the good @meesterboom, but I sure have seen a disgusting amount of it. I didn't really connect it to begging like you run across on every other street corner in major cities in the US, but I guess it works there. Why wouldn't it work here?
I mean, it's a numbers game. Statistically somebody is going to give in. The major problems with it working out the same way it does in the real world are the lack of visceral reaction and the tilt towards money-mindedness of the steemit inhabitants, but maybe it will. It would be interesting to see data on that.
It would be interesting. I can never quite understand the idea behind it if they are also trying to get a steemit profile off the ground. It hardly endears the people they probably want to endear themselves to when they annoy the feck out of them!
The instant I became a curie curation I have behest by beggy spammers wanting the curie vote for their exploding vagines.
I'm pretty much never in steemit.chat now and would never even consider putting Discord on my phone.
For this comment, give me $50 SBD. I need to be rich.... for, ah, reasons...
Also... I was excited to read a post about spiced ham... dagnammit.
One day, I shall post about such things! ;O)
All of my SBDs are now yours! I currently have... ZERO! lol
I remember when it first started happening. It was amusing. I used to tell people I didnt use discord for exactly that reason. Then I gave in. Its relentless!
This is a new method indeed! I haven't been asked outright for cash before, just upvotes! xD Oh they are in for a treat once you get a hold of them lol
Hehe, I was quite astonished. On the one hand I admired their pluck, so to speak and on the other I was outraged! lol
Now that is the best laugh I've had all week, thanks very much.
I see you have already made $92.05 on this post! only 1 Hour old.
Won't you please upvote my pathetic attempt at the written word? 😎
You see I quit school at 14 to pursue a life of wine, women and song. Now that I need the missed education for blogging as an old man and have a Great Vocabulary but can't even spell it without the help of Grammarly I'm feeling a little downtrodden 😕 The wine, women and song have taught me plenty but not very much about how to make a living, only 1000 ways to spend it. LOL 😜
Yours SINcerely @codypanama
Now I'm going Drinking and dancing all night!
I Drink for votes 😎
Cheers 🍻
Lol, grammarly is a fine fine tool to use!
Wine women and song. Thats what my dad used to always say, ah, takes me back!
40 Years later I'm still at it :-) don't have much coin, but ohhhh the memories hehe.
Cheers
Memories are priceless :0)
Want to stir up some old times through music? try this challenge
Day 8 for me coming up, after I sober up. Going to spend the afternoon at the river first.
Cheers
Haha, this post was spammalicious. I like spam, but only the kind you eat. Damned beggers. Do you wear a kilt with them pantyhose? Hehehe.
Oh and please sir, please upvote me and send me ALL your sbd. Ugh, such highway robbery. And just kidding about the begging for upvote, well and sbd. Hope little Boom had fun in the snow.
HAhah, can you imagine, a kilt with pantyhose? How very peculiar that would be, then it really would be like a skirt. You know of course that under kilts nothing is worn! lol
Yeah lol, but I had to ask. Just don't ever wear it around El Jefe, lol
That might be a bad idea! Lol
Lol @meesterboom. Some people have lost their self respect along with their mind. Ignore chats like these, they are a waste of valuable steem time. They can find tutorials(it's everywhere) to help themselves but they are too lazy to learn.
You have it exactly right. I have pointed out the may tutorials, which are easy to find just by searching. But yeah. they want it all and they want it easy!
Take it as a token of your obvious success, your Bill Gates is showing through. Leave the farmers for Uncle Boom.
He does have a way with them!
You can try changing your profile pic to something more menacing for entertainment value if nothing else XD
Haven't been asked for cash yet but I've suddenly been getting people dropping links to me, occasionally with a "hi" and/or "upvote please". I'm not entirely certain
a) why they think a random person on the internet is going to upvote their post just because they dropped a link and asked and
b) why they're asking me
Every now and then I get this fancy that I should at least let them know that at best they are going to get blocked with possibly a snarky comment beforehand or get a downvote at worst, but I generally just block them instead because I'm lazy like that.
I should learn from you and block them instead of getting all hoity toity and being wordy and downvotey with them. lol!
My way is the coward's way out, they may actually learn something from your wordiferous hoity toity downvotey ways...maybe...if they actually read and process your replies XD
That's the worst bit, knowing that most of them don't even bother with replies!!!
You are a clever coward..I do the same. Just ignore and block them. If they really are interested they can comment on my posts.
That actually made me hungry lol.
I won't ask what it made you hungry for... ;0)
Dear Sir Meesterboom,
I am so sorry to be reading about your troubles. I am sure it is hard to have all those spammers at your feet. But I am so happy they bring us such great stories. As always: I love your content.
Love
Tatjana aka @sumsum :)
Sumsum!! For a minute I was baffled. Have you switched accounts? I hope your other one is ok?
all is well! I just started my second account. For my blogging and lifecoach buisness. :)
Smashing. What a lovely name you have indeed! :O)
And as a newbie, I was hoping the Steemit community was perhaps less spammy. But I guess those a-holes can find us anywhere!
There is genuinely no escape :O)
You can keep your profile as it is, just add a little bit of spice in there.
Resteemed!
Thank you!
Thanks for posting this meesterboom I will look out for that stuff. Its horrible people using this platform to beg for votes and money. Sorry you had to go through that and THANK YOU for sharing it, so I can be more careful not to fall into that trap.
You will see plenty of it. It's no great hassle though :O)
sorry I am a resident
new in steam
Hehehe..
I think the way can be very easy SBD, very very difficult to get SBD ..
UPVOTE FOLLOW
Excellent! I think.
I'm sorry if I made a wrong comment on your blog ..
because I do not know who in the name it
SBD's
thank you
Thats ok, relax :O)
do not forget to visit my blog yes, upvote and FOLLOW
Oh you are funny. That made me laugh :0)
Some steemians are really funny... Some don't have manners at all they have they mindset that Steemit is all about making money instead of concentrating on sharing ideas with one another on Steemit.. Some just come and spam your inbox with links.. Pathetic though..
It is, also some of them comment on your posts and don't even vote for it. Those are the killers for me...
Honestly, I do not understand, I am not on steem chat or discord. So I do not get spammers. Maybe cause my rep is still low.
Enjoy not getting it for as long as you can :O)
Lol
I read the word pantyhose and when I scrolled down I immediately saw an image of a banger. Add to that, an urging to bit on it quickly followed. If that wasn't a masterful arrangement of words, I don't know what is!
Spam, spam, spam. Spammity spammity spam. Oh how you're pervasive and invasive. I really don't get how asking for SBD doesn't equate to begging? Are we too old to decipher the inner workings of kids nowadays? Are we even speaking the same language as those SpamFarmers? All I know is that I'm thankful to those cretins, because if not for them, we wouldn't have this introspective post from Uncle Boom. So this is what happens when he checks the pooter machine! Such wow!
My wallet shall await patiently for the promised SBD. Thank you,
sir.
Bangers and biting. Its all a delicious mix!
Pantyhose is such a strange word. When I was young and I would hear an american say it on tv I would get all, ooo he/she said a rude word. It turns out it's not rude. Still gives me a tingle in the nethers when I hear it spoken lol!
SBD en route
It's not a rude word!? Then why do I get slapped every time I shout it in public!? I feel like I need to give a stern talking to to a few people.
Thank you, sir. Now if you could just upvote, follow, resteem and exalt my very existence,
that would be great. Much appreciated XOXO
Well I do like an exaltation!!
I meant me. As in, you exalt my existence. But, I have no problem exalting yours, as I normally do ha!
Not sure what they classify as begging then? Were the people asking for money from developing nations?
I just created an article on one way to increase the quality of posts and hopefully decrease spam on Steemit. Here is the link if interested https://steemit.com/spam/@healthbasics/my-solution-to-fight-spam-and-increase-quality-content-on-steemit-just-one-cultural-change-to-residual-steemit-income