Few weeks ago, Read.cash launched what I considered (and still do) a huge step forward for this platform to the future: The points system, which will be the second way possible here to earn some BCH alongside with tips. That system made me and many other original content makers happy because it's not that easy here to earn some tips, so being able to collect points through writing original articles and honest comments made most of the users here happy.
We all know that the system is still in test. But lately, there were many problems floating on the surface because of people trying to use the rules for their advantage: Many meaningless articles with no goal except for earning the 20 points, an incredible amount of copy-pasting for the same reason, a lot and I mean A LOT of spamming comments for the sake of getting the 4 points (I saw someone commenting the same comment with the same typos and mistakes on every article). As a result, there were many complaints from original content makers about spending hours writing and reviewing their content only to earn the same amount of points as any of those spammers and of course I agree with that complelty.
Many well known content makers on the platform expressed their anger toward this situation, and some even choosed to leave Read.cash denying any chance to return here in the future. Obviously, it became essential for the team of the platform to take actions trying to stop this continuing wave of spamming from spreading even more.
Basically, Read.cash team took 2 decision for that reason. The first one is to check regularly the articles and comments either using specific programs or even manually to ban and delete most of the spams like the spammer's case mentioned above who got banned. Not only that, they added the option of blocking the spammer in the comment without having to go to his profile page.
The second decision, which is as important as the first one, is to make some changes to the points system in a way that guarantees the right of the original content makers. In short, good high-quality original authors will receive better pay than others using criteria like the number of views, proper english, upvotes, a program called CopyScape, manually checking and alot more. (see the screenshot below for more details)
Personally,I find those decisions more than necessary to take, and it should be only the beginning to fight the spammers. Obviously, that means many people here will got banned and will not be able to use this platform and that's go a little against the goal of Read.Cash which is encouraging as many people as possible to use BCH, but we also have to keep in mind that this project is still relatively new with limited financial and even human resources, and keep giving those spammers what looks like free money to them, no matter how small the amount is, will just consume the fund without anything good in return. So that's just a financial burden. Worse, it will encourage more spammers to join the community and original content makers to leave since it won't be fair to them, making the website a huge pile of spam and copy paste articles with zero quality which will be the wrong turn for this platform because none will want to join or sponsor a website where there is only a huge amount of garbage articles.
In short, this update is very important and will help Read.cash become even better with less spammers, but we have to make sure that the spammers won't be able to trick the algorithm this time.
That was my openion about the last update, thank you for reading!
Link to the update details: https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/personalized-payouts-from-the-fund-f5d2f9c0
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