So, today i posted my competition again. It’s a simple one - the first one to write a proper positive comment of four words or more gets a full upvote. It’s not much, but the competition is over very quickly and there are therefore not many comments. Those that give spam answers first are replied to saying that it wasn’t a proper comment.

# I received a comment threatening to flag me from @fiveboringgames:
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> fiveboringgames
>This is encouraging comment spam I am very tempted to flag it.
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>edit: lol I just noticed you say
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>All other comments will be ignored - I will not upvote them (well, they might get a 1% upvote).
>and in you sig
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>The Smallprint (I always try to upvote any reasonable comments (i.e. those with more than a few words) with between 5% >and 20% of voting power
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>davidnx
>Could you please explain further?
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>Why is it comment spam? It is simply adding some fun to Steemit - it is not as though I expect to get many comments as the competition is over very quickly - in a matter of minutes, in fact. There are other competitions which generate many many comments.
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>I don't understand if the "edit" part is supposed to be positive or negative.
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>fiveboringgames
>people are commenting on posts all over with vapid comments in the hope of a reward. The sole point of this post is for a person to post a banal pleastary as a comment.
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>There is nothing wrong with this I see flags as downvotes, nothing to get worked up about just me saying I don't like this form of post.
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>davidnx
>I also see that you have upvoted your own comment.
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Of course, flags affects reputation, so it is important.

I looked at his recent post:

"An idea for a bot to help combat the comment spam"

Where he details the problem of getting comment spam on one’s own post and that he is designing a bot to automatically flag comments.

One of the big problems we have on SteemIt is that those with a higher reputation can attack others with impunity. As I said in a reply to his post, it has already been suggested that tit-for-tat should be used again these types of strong arm tactics.

Why should such an innocuous post such as mine be attacked in such a way. Do they really want to create bad feelings in the SteemIt community?

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A new slogan for the SteemIt community:

# A free community where you have to conform!

(Hardly "free" anymore, is it?!)

Recently, we also had the BullyBot proposal to stop people upvoting their own comments (and, maybe later, their own posts), exactly what @fiveboringgames did.

# What next?
# No jokes? No youtube videos?

# What is "banal" to one person is not necessarily banal to another!

# Will he flag me for criticizing him? Who knows?
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<p>The Smallprint (I always try to upvote any reasonable comments (i.e. those with more than a few words) with between 5% and 20% of voting power - this presently equates to about 2 cents to 8 cents depending on my voting strength. Please be patient, it can sometimes take several days before I do my upvotes.</p>
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