Definitely sounds feasible to me if there is demand to use it and develop it.  I wouldn't be looking to Steemit for that though.  Maybe more like a SteemVoter type of service but for auto-flagging?

## Did I just find a Facebook full of people with interesting things to say? 

I am going to have to poke around on github. Y'all have got me quite curious how this reward system works exactly. I get that there is steem and staked steem that becomes steem power giving you more clout (plus the POS) but I did not realize or think about the effects of factors such as frequency, history and observed future; how that can effect ever up or down vote ahead. I am just going to have to dig as I have too many question to not be a pest. Really I have not even gave the FAQ a good look yet. Thanks for sparking my curiosity guys.

People already have the ability to find spammers by analyzing the data. Such [Spam Comments]( https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@abh12345/utopian-io-analysing-spam-comments-nice-post-good-post-follow-me)  like that post a couple of months back. Not to mention there accounts out there that do go after largescale spam that are using upvote circles to profit.  Spaminator is one account that comes to mind. 

If just downvoting the spammers were good enough they be taken care of already.  People in the past have made daily hit lists to go after people spamming. They can just make hundreds of new accounts at no cost to them and that is the issue.  It’s a flood gate and while it remains open its just an annoying mess to deal with any.


Last week I had 132 comments with 63,766 characters total. Some users can do 300 to 600 comments in a week just enjoying steemit without running a spam bot. Someone could easily go oh 600 open comments must be a bot spamming and nuke them. 

Now can I 600 comments in a many in a week? Heck no but I also take much longer to write comments and I write blogs. There are some legit users who only leave comments and never blog.

An interesting idea with the downvote button  I do not know. It would have to be tried.  I tend to ignore all the spam.  Thanks for thinking outside the box and you continued efforts to fight this spam @mattclarke

Chips and tomato sauce...So good.

So much brainstorming. I hope a workable solution comes up. The main problem I see with solutions that make it easier to downvote spam is that it also makes it easier for malicious downvoting, which seems to be getting more and more common. Complain about my huge money making bidbot? Goodbye post... Point out my hypocrisy? Goodbye post... Grumpy animals admitting to censorship... You get the picture, I'm sure. The ones with the most money = power in the governance.

Can anarchy ever exist with the drive people have for power? If you remove the ability for any one man to have so much power that they have control over others, then is it still within the realms of anarchy? Now I'm just digressing though.

I enjoyed your vid on the voting types. BTW it loaded and played fine on DLive.  Well. done.

I've never had trouble finding and/or identifying spammers. The big rings of them have thousands of accounts. Automating it at an account level wouldn't be enough - I'd need something I could put a *long* list into. (Of course I'd also need the SP to make my vote able to nuke 7000 spam accounts, but you get the idea). 

I'm also with other commenters such as @tarazkp in voicing a note of caution on the potential for this to be abused. Having taken a few flags this week over ideological disagreements about bidbots and what constitutes spam etc., I'd be cautious about making it too easy to zero an account. Maybe run this idea past @freezepeach *et al* for their perspective.

Thank you for your continued support of SteemSilverGold

This I think would save hours in @berniesanders' day :)

I think that this would make it easy when nuking a spammer but, also easy for people to abuse in regards to complaints about rewards. Will they read the content or even scroll through the account to see what is really there or, just nuke? If you or I are going to nuke, we are likely to d a little due diligence first but many may not, and they will use it for their vendettas.

I've run into a few situations where my software would make too many calls to update (such as the invalidate procedure in the windows api which would cause flickering on the display if the drawing was shown in real time).  This spamming of the OnUpdate method pointer I used to handle by drawing on a hidden TImage object.

The takeaway from this is that if a routine starts to become a problem, if you want to discourage the behavior, you should minimize thread use.  A damping algorithm can be used for successive iterations that reduces the profitability beyond a certain number of posts in a given period.  Short spam posts are easy to spot and long spam posts can be handled similar to the way @cheetah works.

I'm not sure how many posts per day a typical legitimate user does, but I've been on here since late last summer and still haven't cleared the 1200 post mark.  At 1170 posts in 218 days, that's about 5.37 posts per day.  I'm probably on the low end of posting usage on Steemit, but I imagine that a damping algorithm can start coming into play at about 50 posts or more in a given 24 hour period that gets progressively onerous as you exceed that number of post effectively eliminating payouts at thresholds that spam bots use.