RE: True Colours 11: Conclusions - BOOMING03
Electricity... For about 20 years I didn't even know what power outages were, but because of the war, I've been dealing with them for 5 years now. In winter and during the summer heat, the Russians know exactly where and when to strike ((( Last winter we only had electricity for 3–4 hours a day. Winter is coming again, and I don't even want to think about having just a few hours of power once more.
Indeed, new users should be checked more thoroughly. Back when I was on various teams, we were told there were special curators for newcomers, so we skipped them. Still, I did upvote quite a few.
Recently, I saw a user with real photos of themselves—but their diary post text was generated by AI based on those photos. Too bad I forgot the username, maybe we should add such people to a blacklist? I might remember it later, because I was even considering that user for the post of the week. Things like that will be even harder to track
I understand what you're saying, and I agree with you: it is necessary to create a "blacklist," because if we don't address this problem, Steemit might well become overrun with this type of user in the not-too-distant future.
All curation teams maintain a Google Sheet. There’s a database where information about a user's country is pulled from, so we could add an 'info' column to flag it if a user is abusing something. Within a month or two, this database would fill up with data. And if someone accidentally misses a particular user, the sheet will warn about it, and the vote can be removed.
It's a good strategy. The important thing is to do something and not sit idly by.