I hope that I am not offending anyone with this post. But we should REALLY take curating seriously for the sake of the platform’s future.
I am not complaining here about the make-up tutorial that received $20k+ in rewards or the introduceyourselfs that have made thousands of $. If that’s what the community values, I can live with it. But there are some posts that I find utterly immoral. Those are posts in which people pretend to be someone else.
I’ve been spending my day at Steemit to curate some good content, but found some fakers in the process.
Here are examples of some fakers' posts I have found that nauseates me. Yes, I use the word nauseating. I find it disgusting to lower your morals like this. I believe in the future of the platform and have invested close to $8,000 of my savings just to buy STEEM and to POWER UP. I don’t want anyone to jeopardize this project.
1. 
, "Challange <><><<<>>Today i have decided to take a challange ::living one month only on steemit::lets see i can survive or not :"
This person stole a picture from a model called Alyssah Ali and pretending that she is her. In general, the post doesn't look serious at all due to the many spelling mistakes and it seems like she just wrote it for some quick $.
2. 
, "Hai Steemit I am Rachel"
This post is written by someone named
I would like to urge the community to take their curating responsibilities seriously and to downvote the fakers. I am not asking you to downvote posts that are unoriginal, posts you disagree with or posters you don't like.
What I would like everyone to do is to downvote posts that harm Steemit.
For good reasons why we should downvote, see this excellent post of
