The thing is my friend, is that while the best method for getting rid of spam is to comment that "Your post or comment is spammy and I have muted you steeming on", this also hilights spam! It get's their attention if they come to respond. Provides them with the solution to not being muted by not spamming.

Sadly I realized only after writing my own post about spam, that such post where inadvertantly making things worse not better. It highlights the spam and makes such more visible in the steemit pool. More visible in the steemit pool means less value in the pool. Another way to see this is as if every person who sees such on other social media see post about how spammy it is here on steemit: are they likely to consider joining themselves?

Now before posting I ask myself is this going to create value, before posting?

This is why I mute people who write things that are not valuable to the pool. I also will attempt to help someone realize a better way. That is just me. I really don't mean to sound like a know it all. lol

Steeming on!