I’m not sure if there’s data comparing spam levels from the past to now, but it’s clear there’s been a big improvement.
A bit difficult to compare that, isn't it? The only way I can think of would be to compare the length of the posts, but a short post is not a synonym of bad quality either. Or I don't know if with AI today you could compare today's posts with those of 2017 for example in terms of correctness in the use of English.
Most of the short posts back then, before AI, were spams. But now, there are also long posts that are spams, as some are generated by AI. If you don’t read the content thoroughly, you might not even notice it's spam. However, I actually prefer short posts because I believe they’re more suitable for the forum and easier to read. I’ve also noticed a few members in the forum who’ve been around for a while making short posts but still gaining a lot of merits, which clearly shows those posts are not spam.
One of the things that I have come to realize about Spam is that, we do not have an analytical tool to rate posts to know which one is spam or not, that is why comments and posts are evaluated based on individual preferences, but a general spam post is a post that is generic and does not make any sense, just like the one shared in the ops, and from 2018 until this very moment with the merits system requirements for ranking up a lot is now demanded to put up with the forum standard which means a constant improvement to meet up with current technology such as AI and the rest of the writing bots, which the forum setting is not favorable for such tools since we are all humans here and making contributions based on human efforts and sharing real-time ideas and experience in our discussions around the forum, so a spammer can't keep up with such demands for long and that means limited space for spammers here in the forum with the current Bitcointalk system.
