I don't disagree. I wonder if we could do some things on the tech side and monetary side though to help dissuade it, all the while encouraging more positive engagement and pulling in more curators (butts in seats and eyeballs on content).
Just thinking out loud really, but worth maybe crowdsourcing for some thoughts from smarter folks than I.
how exactly would you be able to discern that someone has engaged a ghostwriter? When the whole purpose of ghostwriting is to have content prepared and published under the person's name. The ghostwriter is not even supposed to comment who their client is.
Spam and plagiarism can be and does get caught even though some people get very unhappy that there are people on Hive who dedicate themselves to finding and exposing it.
Between their efforts and people in the community willing to downvote bad behaviour Hive doesn't do too badly when it comes to keeping some level of control on the problem of spam and plagiarism.
I've been reading some over on Loop (formerly Trybe) and am seeing a growing issue of spammy posts and comments. It reminds me of what I saw on Uptrennd which no longer exists because it died, literally.
Tech can only go so far. Ultimately it takes fair minded people seeing and reacting to bad behaviour.
I don't care if they do as long as the work they produce is not spammy or plagiarizes the content of others.
I am glad there are people willing to. I think the approach some use may be what the rub could be.
Either way, I'm not getting caught up in the drama of it all. Still recovering from my strokes and this place ain't worth my health😊