[Read part 1](https://steemit.com/steemit/@ropaga/the-rise-of-the-steemit-bots)
I recommend you reading  [💙😱 What Has Happened To My Beloved Steemit !?💙😱](https://steemit.com/steemit/@karenmckersie/what-has-happened-to-my-beloved-steemit) by @karenmckersie as it describes very well the way I think the rise of some Steemit bots is hurting the community.

In the last two days I have met a new bot spam type: the tip bot.

The tip bot works by sending a lot of 0.001 SBD transactions with an advertising memo. Unlike comment spam, tip spam is not free, but it has two big advantages: it is more visible because receiving transactions is less common that receiving comments, and the tip cannot be hidden by downvotes.

In two days I have received two of this transactions:

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYR8Pkc7WMTgEcotnV8MXhsETUM9b75aS57DmQwvodaHY/imagen.png)

@curator-whale resteemed [this post  introducing the tip tool](https://steemit.com/steem/@yuriks2000/tip-all-you-active-followers-on-steemit-for-free-with-tipper) The original code of the tool was created by @msg768 , here is the [complaint article](https://steemit.com/steemit/@msg768/plagiarism-alert-someone-is-stealing-my-work-tools). [ And here is the tipper tool by @msg768](https://rawgit.com/msg768/mysteemit/master/tipper.html)

Although the tool can be quite useful for informing your followers or giving them an small giveaway, it is also quite useful for spamming. @msg768 has received this transactions in the last days:

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWGrwHc6Y57qYacwdoouMqUBzfePQ9LoidU13zSFQi7Bw/imagen.png)

So that means that @joanaltres used the @msg768 tool for the spam. As the fee of the service  is 0.001SBD, the message was sent to 4729 people. Let´s see what message sent the other users of this tool.

@bereginja-steem
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmasQYrBbxiDYm9K2QWN62QUqLrLjx6CvsitLCZqsmMi8R/imagen.png)

@vominhquoc
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmadaExBb8UqfrgBT8tjUNkDHq9imrgamgy9QTbttY2X9t/imagen.png)

So 3 of the 3 users applied for the minimum fee and used the tool for promoting their articles or services. The best part of Tipper is that opt-out is quite easy, by just unfollow the user that sends the tips in case you find them annoying.

Please let me know in the comments what do you think about this. If you do not like this use of the tool, politely ask @msg768 for increasing the minimum amount of the tip.

On the long term, in my opinion the way to ban this type of uses would be  the same I proposed in part 1:

A dynamic system based on reputation that limits the submit of articles, comments and transactions. When a limit of comments is reached in a certain period of time, a cooling time that can be dismissed by completing a captcha would be triggered. The higher the reputation the less restrictive is that limit. Replies to mentions and exchanges are not affected by that rule.

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I would like to know your suggestions about how to deal with this behaviours on Steemit.