In many cases they send you a message like this:
Warning! This user is on my black list, likely as a known plagiarist, spammer or ID thief. Please be cautious with this post!
To get off this list, please chat with us in the channel in steemit.chat. :
You must use STEEMIT CHAT
Steemit Chat is a chat website specifically for steemit users where you can communicate with other staimain. You can also get help, and list links to your steemit posts. Steemit Chat can be accessed via your dropdown menu on Steemit (top right). Note: don't use your Steemit password to access Steemit Chat.In June 2017, whilesteem token were valuating quickly attracting a flood of new stemainss, the service went down for a couple of days. At that time they were processing 45 Gigabytes of messages per day for about 12k users. When they migrated to the server it was around 500 Megabytes a day for around 4k users. One of the Steemit Chat founders, @jacklin1996 , declared: "While we've tripled in size since then I suspect the real growth is in the active users versus those that have made accounts and never came back".[1]