All of us have experienced the large inflow of new steemians that have arrived lately. The growth of the platform started in February and hit a ramp-up in April, followed by further growth in May and June. These levels of adoption has put steemit.com into the top 3,000 websites, worldwide, for traffic.
With growth, comes new challenges and one of the greatest problems that we are all encountering is the influx of account holders that have no sense of decorum. That's not to say that there haven't been plenty of new accounts that seem to have a grasp of how the platform works and want to succeed by doing things the right way. That said, we need to do ourselves a favor and either reprimand or ignore those that offer nothing to steemit accept clutter and annoyance.
The four main categories that these spamming, useless comment, worthless posting account holders fall into a few categories and certainly, further subcategories:
F4F: Everyone has dealt with this one -> "I follow you, follow me back and upvote my posts. Why you no upvote my posts, I follow you!" -> Annoying clutter in your comment section and the only way to get rid of it is to flag it into obscurity.
The Useless Comment: "What you write is magical, it makes me think great amount on important subject" -> Obviously didn't read your post and just creates further clutter. Fishing for an upvote.
The Double Whammy (Useless comment paired with link to unrelated posts): "You have made great point and make me think much. Check out my post on 'Why Saltines are Better than Ritz Crackers'"
Copy Pasta: Account holders that make 25 posts per day that contains nothing but somebody else's work. Ripping a video off youtube, adding a title and tags and hitting post. Not that some of these videos may contain useful content, but the steemian doing the copying adds nothing to the post. They make zero analysis or even add their two cents. They just vomit all over the platform, all day long.
The only way to stop this bad behavior on steemit is to stop feeding this crowd. I know many of us make a point to not reward these people, but some steemians still blanket upvote any comment on their feed. That small reward only encourages this lot to continue to act in this fashion.
I make a point to reward anybody who lays a decent comment on my post with a 20% upvote, every time. I exclude the comments that meet any of the criteria listed above. If their behavior is truly abhorrent, I will respond directly to them and try to briefly educate them why their approach is flawed and will get them nowhere.
As a whole, let's focus on these derelict accounts, when they show up in our comments sections and ensure that they are rewarded with nothing until they change their behavior. Let's be diligent and make sure that we don't reward the wrong people, who bring zero value to the platform.
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