Is there potential incentives for bot spam in the stacker.news model?
25 sats \ 4 comments \ @Risky 17 Jul 2022 bitcoin freebie
I understand one of the many benefits of this model is to cut down on potential bot spam by making it cost sats to post and comment and unless they're quality posts or comments, you're netting a loss. Bots are becoming more and more sophisticated by the day, and if stacker.news grows to even a fraction of reddit I would imagine someone can do quite well by managing a few bots here. I'm interested to read some discussion points on this!
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141 sats \ 1 reply \ @KingZing 18 Jul 2022
definitely needs a features to block or report spam. Maybe SN can have a separate system which reward users for reporting spam correctly.
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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @Risky OP 18 Jul 2022
Perhaps some sort of amount of time between posts scales with amount of sats required to post. So if you want to post 10 things in one minute, you’re going to be met with a higher and higher sat cost each time. Seems to only be an issue for a bot far. Maybe @koob can shed some light here
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 17 Jul 2022
True
Someone could fund a not with a fee dollars worth of satoahis & the could post 10 000 times.
If they get tipped it would be more.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @EnormousPony 18 Jul 2022
Bots are extremely good at mimic human interactions but you can still spot them especially if you have a bit of experience managing communities. SN can try to automate it but it must be something that you can train in order to polish the detection and decrease the amount of false positives to zero, or close to it. Also a neat feature could be some sort of "flood alert": When SN is under a spam attack it could automatically raise all costs to post/comment to an absurd amount and reward people that "fight" during the attack (with reports and such)
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