One of the changes made in the recent hard-fork was the removal of the 4 posts per day limit. Now, technically there never was this limit, but rewards were diminished after 4 posts in a 24 hours period, and this appeared enough of a deterrent. However, scrolling through the "bitcoin" tag today, I found myself looking at post after post of pointless, meaningless annoyance.
BITCOIN TAG ON STEEMIT TODAY
IS THIS A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME?
I clicked on the user and found that this account was posting about 4 times per hour, and being upvoted about 40 times each, for what appears to be nothing more than Spam. The rewards may not be much, but if this is scaled then it is feasible that decent rewards could be garnered for doing nothing but spamming the blockchain with nonsense.
IS THIS ADDING VALUE TO THE PLATFORM?
I think we will all agree that it is not, and this was the effect that one user had on a specific tag over the course of a day. What would happen if 100 users did the same thing, steemit would become almost unusable for browsing. I'm still not sure why the 4 post limit was removed. Other than users who like to post news, I can't see how you could ever create more than 4 quality posts in a day, for most of it takes enough time just to create one quality post with pictures and original content.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
I don't know...apart from one or two users calling out this steemer today, his behaviour went largely unpunished. Can the users really be expected to be Policing this type of behaviour? I don't think so... This particular account has made 30 meaningless posts so far today....ENOUGH !!!!