ln replying to @creatr 's post on a feature request for a threshold for memo notifications
it occurred to me that you can't try to manually solve an automation abuse. Maybe a solution is an exponential cost for posting?
I would like to see this implemented for posts actually. But an exponentially growing cost for posting. The first of the day maybe .001, second 0.01 third 0.1 sbd 4th costs 1 whole SBD 5th post 10 SBD 6th 100 SBD and so forth.
Or maybe a fairer system would be the equivalent measured against % upvote value.
This way spamming becomes prohibitively expensive but it would not overly penalise quality posters who post 4 good posts a day.
Money could go to the @null account like promotion.
Why exponential cost ? When spammers can harvest a few dozen SBD per post with autovoting bots 0,01 SBD is laughable and won't stop anything. Posting should have an exponential cost so that a human won't be penalized but a spam bot posting hundreds of posts a day to game the rewards System gets severely punished without human intervention.
Trying to manually flag spam accounts, that's like swatting mosquitos and it costs voting power which is unfair. You can't solve manually the automated abuses.
There needs to be a systemic built-in circuit breaker on abusive bot behaviour or they will suck this platform dry .