It's with a heavy heart that I start this post. I don't know where my words will lead me, or where my thoughts will follow. Or if my thoughts will come before my words. Who knows?
Yesterday, @endingplagiarism shared that @steemcurator04 was being abused.
Today, @saracampero has highlighted that @steemcurator05 is being abused.
@endingplagiarism was ignored when trying to highlight a scam involving a Crypto Academy Professor - somewhat ironically, the identical scam that @saracampero has highlighted today.
@endingplagiarism has previously found booming02 and booming03 being abused.
And this isn't even the worse abuse that I'm aware of since I signed up less than a year ago.
All the while, I'm working my tits off to create something good.
As you know, I've been working on a new front-end for a little while now. I decided that I'd introduce various "blacklists" to hide the unsavoury elements. The multitude of shit posted under krsuccess to gain $0.02. The highly voted shit via UpVu and Tipu. I was hiding away in the World of Xpilar community, but in starting this project, I reminded myself about how much shit there is on this platform.
So a blacklist clearly wouldn't work. The list would be so long, the processing required to filter it all out would make the site too slow to be usable. The increasing number of new accounts appearing every day with the sole aim of scamming the platform would need adding - a full time job in itself.
And then I remembered a comment I made to @starlord28 a few days ago related to coding:
Garbage In, Garbage Out.
For those unfamiliar with the phrase, if you put shit into a system, your output will also be shit. So what's the point in putting a nice, shiny new front-end on something which is ultimately going to produce shit no matter how sexy it looks. One of my favourite quotes:
You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.
I don't have that much glitter.
So I decided last week that I have little choice - The new front-end would contain a whitelist. Only showing content from users that aren't here to bullshit the platform. In time, this could become automated so that users could get nominated and the "VIP" community could vote on acceptance or refusal. It's clean. No nonsense and we can all live oblivious to the steaming pile of shit that isn't being shovelled.
I also implemented multi-tag selection.
