The Ten Commandments State that "Thou shall not steal" And the world has a general guideline that doesn't tolerate stealing. So what makes it okay on steemit? We are being raped and robbed by spammers and spammers who make spam bots. Steemit is such a great platform, but are we really going to let spammers take this platform down? I don't think so pal.
I don't know if you know or not, but on my post I did a while ago, I was talking about how 1700+ accounts were being made to rip off the steemit rewards pool and the number of these spam accounts have been growing.
According to 
, his accusation is:
"Randomly scanning the blockchain for suspicious activities, a chain of votes on a seemingly innocent spam comment caught my eye. 19 votes from accounts with random-syllable usernames on a days old comment on a month old post.
Someone's clearly spamming for profit. I really did not expect this to lead to such an extend as it did, though!"
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So with that being said, now we know that there are over 1700 accounts used to drain the rewards pool, if you want further information on that, go to his article listed above. But anyways, that is just one way Steemit is being raped and robbed.
Solo spammers/groupies
What I call a solo spammer is someone who just spams without using a bunch of accounts, I also refer to solo spammers who work together as groupies. There have been more and more of these types of spammers on steemit. That's why whenever you make a post, you always see that comment "Please upvote my post and I'll do the same for yours" or something along that line. I'm getting sick and tired of it, especially when you write about a serious topic and someone just spams you with a meaningless comment when they haven't even read your post.
My personal conflict with spammers
A few weeks back, when our dog Jake suffered from a life threatening perineal hernia and needed to get an emergency surgery, I did a post on it and guess what? I got a spammer, actually no...spammers who commented relentlessly on the few serious posts I did about his surgery. What i've been doing is I have been flagging all of the spam I get on my posts.
Also one time, a spammer was spamming me relentlessly, so I gave him a flag. And I made the dude mad and he flagged all of my comments or posts and told me to "Piss off" or something along those lines. First of all, Dude, you have the nerve to spam in the first place, which is pretty aggravating, but even with that, this dude decides to start a flag war and tell me to "Piss off" or whatever he said.
Steemit, 
, y'all need to do something, for god's sake!
I really think that spam overall cannot be completely gotten rid of, but at the same time, I don't think just flagging will do much either, unless all of the whales/dolphins jump in. I think a good way to weed out spammers would be to stop making it free to join steemit or to make steemit invite only. That would weed out a lot of spammers, but still, spammers would still be a problem, but a smaller one. But it would be easier to control.
That's just my proposal or thoughts on the subject, but really, something needs to be done.
