As more people join steemit every day, its interesting to see how spam accounts that comment on whale's posts are evolving. It is even more ironic to see how many of these accounts are going about the continuation of their spamming.
To be sure, the same one word comment spam accounts are still out there, but others are posting longer comments to attempt to get the same up votes that valid comments in response to the material would garner. What is even more ironic is how many of these more sophisticated spam accounts actually have a higher ranking than many users, myself included, that actually try and add to the community and have meaningful interactions where gainful knowledge is shared. These longer pointless comments, lately something about friendship, or repeating the same few words several times, undoubtedly makes it harder for steemcleaners to keep them out.
It appears that manually giving them negatives, something else that I have noticed being done, is the only current way to combat the new spam. In a way, its kind of cool being able to watch this new ecosystem develop before our eyes. I realize right now that I have a low delegation of SP, but I am fine with that. I do believe in earning position after all, and being rewarded for effort put in. It remains to be seen though what the final solution to these more sophisticated spam will be.
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