One of the areas where many of STEEMIANS fail to meet their obligation to the site is failure to consistently flag garbage posts.
STEEMIT for all its fun as a community and place to network is still competitive. As such "Making it" on STEEMIT can be tough, there is plenty of competition and even some of the more obscure niches are quickly becoming competitive as well.
I think we sometimes put so much effort into creating valuable unique content that we overlook the tremendous importance of flagging. The reality is that you need to work just as hard to clean up the trash and keep STEEMIT free of spam posters as you do creating your unique content.
Why? Pretty simple really, each spam posting takes up space in article listings that should rightfully belong to you; an actual content creator trying to make it.
For all of you STEEMIANS that consistently deliver engaging, creative, and well thought out postings you are most likely selling yourself short, by failing to provide even 1/10th of the effort to policing the ranks.
I know the frustration that comes with creating an excellent article, one you work hard to put it together, and post only to watch it slip into obscurity and vanish under a cascade of other posts, many of which are total garbage.
But if I can only get a following you say, I won't have this problem anymore. While that may be true to some extent, you still need to be noticed in order to gather said following to begin with. You will also need to continually add new followers with time, many of which will organically come across your articles. A process that becomes that much more difficult with the plethora of spam vomiting users that have no real interest in the site only the $$$ that can be made if they catch an upvote.
I would say it is almost epidemic in that some users have made repeatedly posting this garbage the entirety of the existence here on STEEMIT. Some go so far as to post STEEMIT related videos from Youtube created by other STEEMIANS. Essentially stealing the hard work of another STEEMIAN and trying to wrongfully appropriate it as their own.
Example:
This user posts nothing but Youtube videos from various Youtube Channels. That's it. If you look into his blog you will even see where he has taken another STEEMIANS Youtube video and attempted to rebrand it as his own. Aside from that just being a total dickhead move, it also takes up space. Perhaps anyone of these garbage posts pushed a deserving authors article into obscurity before it could be curated.
This is probably one of the most egregious offenders I have found today. I mean seriously, no content whatsoever and the entire blog consists of stolen Youtube videos; all of which dilute the gene pool around here allowing shit to linger at the waters surface for to long.
Let us unite, and begin to smash that little red flag in the upper right hand corner when we come across posts like these. Let's dump a big bottle of Chlorox right in the pool here and kill these parasitic organisms off.
There are so many hard working authors here, who's articles get washed down the list by this type of behavior..
Give them a read and a follow, these guys and gals bust their asses... 
