Steemcleaners is supposed to help with plagiarism, spam, and abuse. It may work some of the time, and when it doesn't it just pisses off new users and chases them off the platform. We have 1,000,000 SP tied up in Steemcleaners that has the ability to completely destroy new users accounts when we could be helping them out.
Reading through some comments left in response to steemcleaner's spam posts we see a lot of users who are just trying to bring their content over from other social media platforms. These users probably have no idea who steemcleaners are or how to reach out to them. It can be very unmotivating, as I've seen my wife's account tagged for accidentally using the wrong tag on a post.
If a user has a problem with someone spamming comments their posts, why not leave it up to them to report it? Some new users may only get comments or upvotes from bots first starting out.
I think you guys need to take away some of the automation in your downvoting and at least review the account to see if it is a pattern. Fighting bots with more bots seems pretty redundant.
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