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Maybe you wouldn't even have seen this reply if I had not raised it to the top. Isn't that the whole point of steem ?
BTW; Nobody answered anything yet.

There are only 5 comments on this post.
And, yes, the point of STEEMit is to make STEEM.
And, yes, there are some whales who upvote their own Articles to make money, but I believe they are providing original content. At least the ones I saw.

The expectation is for people to provide some sort of original content, instead of a direct copy and paste. And maybe upvoting other people's comments, instead of their own.

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But, you can do what you wish, until the powers that be do some sort of corrective action. I found this thread because I was reading another thread about someone abusing the hashtags and just accidentally clicked on this.