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RE: Six Months on Steemit-- Status Update-- A Personal Journal Entry
I've been on steemit for almost a month now, and the experience was relatively positive, In my opinion the only bad thing about steemit is spammers, I just wish that they'll all be banned from steemit. I just wish that someday steemit could surpass reddit but that's getting harder and harder every day because of spammers.
I have only been on a week, but was wondering what you consider spam? I write original articles and use original pictures most of the time unless I can not find a specific species of plant that I might be writing about and them I site it. Is it the youtube stuff i see with no writing?
Spammers go to other people blogs or posts, and write the same things over and over again, Example: things like 'upvote me sir because i upvoted you' or 'Follow me i followed you'. They think steemit is just a fast way to earn cash while steemit is all about sharing ideas.
Thank you for that explanation . I really appreciate that information and will make sure to ignore them. I have not had any that I can think of, however I am new and have not had that many comments on my writing. All Good things to you and yours!
Melissa
I think it's definitely a case of "short term gains" vs. "long term building."
There are quite a lot of community members working on that, now... first giving newcomers a chance through education and explanations... and if they blatantly continue to spam and plagiarize, they do tend to get flagged into oblivion. Which is really what an effective system of "peer curation" should be able to do.