<h3> I agree with this sentiment 120% I'm getting sick of reading an entire blog post than formulating a nice, information-backed opinionated reply that doesn't even get read when the jerkoff above me writes "GJ nice post!" and has $3.80 in upvotes. I don't do this for the money. I could care less about that; I do it to share & learn new ideas / things from people. But when you have bots/money grubbers who are only in it for the money, than that's just spam for all the great authors / commentators who deserve exposure & curation. *SMH* </h3>

The real reason you posted this is because you are jealous you cannot do it yourself but I will explain myself however. 

1. I do not have time to make 10x quality posts everyday.
2. I do not have the time to manually curate nor do I want a trail having access to my power.
3. I will NOT delegate  or sell my vote. Why you ask? Why would I? Doing that only profits the bot owners.

Edit 1:
P.S  - I have a script running that upvotes everything I post so I do not actually vote by myself.

Edit 2 -  Also you could have just contacted me Instead of writing up this bullshit post.
 
Edit 3 - You say my comments are spam (Which they are not, I will admit the comments I made yesterday were) but you you are also doing the same thing, you just do not have the SP to upvote them. ![Screen Shot 2018-05-09 at 00.57.01.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeZuDE9mHe3GdxE9LXaDxZdXSxbA5JvjPZQ1GCityw2zy/Screen%20Shot%202018-05-09%20at%2000.57.01.png)

@henen! I fully agree with you. I think we should not pay attention to them to stop spam comments.

The self  voting of comments is getting much worse on here. I really hate it when people who have a good sized upvote come to my blog and leave a thoughtless comment which they upvote but then dont upvote my post. Its just greedy and rude

High reputation people won't stop abusing self upvote and pay bots to upvote their post.

I saw many post from low reputation people never get upvote or comments because they don't use bots.

This upvote system need to be change, otherwise steemit future is dark.

That one is already in focus of sc

it is very good content
i am with you brother @hanen

>Most spammers are not willing to change their behavior, no matter what new information they get or what experience they get. Even when you set your accounts to 0 to show them how useless your efforts are, they are still active and sending spam. I don't understand if they realize what's going on in their accounts or just don't care. With a little effort and time, we can usually get through this pretty quickly.

I like to read and comment on the publications that I like, sometimes the spam comments exceed 25%, or I find myself with comments that have absolutely nothing to do with the publication, in short, we find everything, how can we eliminate this practice? I don't really know, what I can say is that many times ignorance plays a very important role, when I started on this platform I didn't know anything, with time I have grown in basic knowledge, maybe all those people are like me at the beginning, even so I see many rewards in this kind of commentary and that if it is worrying, the only way to end a bad practice is with a good education! Happy afternoon, I hope that steemit always gets the best way for everyone, excuse my mistakes in English, use translator

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'm still a plankton, but want the best for us all here as well, and finding ways to drain the reward pool is wrong. I usually don't upvote my own comments (but do upvote my own posts). We all can do a better job of supporting each other and working to take the power away from bad whales...since it looks like there's no complete solution to this problem coming anytime soon.

<p>Congratulations!  This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by Hanen from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows.  Please find us at the <a href="https://discord.gg/HYj4yvw"> Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel</a>.  It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.</p> <p>If you would like to delegate to the Minnow Support Project you can do so by clicking on the following links: <a href="https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&amp;delegatee=minnowsupport&amp;vesting_shares=102530.639667%20VESTS">50SP</a>, <a href="https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&amp;delegatee=minnowsupport&amp;vesting_shares=205303.639667%20VESTS">100SP</a>, <a href="https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&amp;delegatee=minnowsupport&amp;vesting_shares=514303.639667%20VESTS">250SP</a>, <a href="https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&amp;delegatee=minnowsupport&amp;vesting_shares=1025303.639667%20VESTS">500SP</a>, <a href="https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&amp;delegatee=minnowsupport&amp;vesting_shares=2053030.639667%20VESTS">1000SP</a>, <a href="https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&amp;delegatee=minnowsupport&amp;vesting_shares=10253030.639667%20VESTS">5000SP</a>. <br><strong>Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account.</strong></p>

@hanen - Unfortunatley, like anywhere else, there are loads of people on Steemit who don't care about the over-all health of the platform or the future of Steemit. They just want to take as much as they can as fast as they can.

As far as spam goes, most of it is deliberate / malicious, but some is just inexperience.

 For example, I am still quite new to the platform and still learning. In my first month here I experimented with different types of posts to see what worked and what didn't. I look back on some of those posts now, and some might call them 'spam-like'. But they were not spam, just the result of a newbie trying to figure out Steemit. Besides, I don't have enough Steem or voting power to be able to spam myself into money haha.

Anyway, good post, thanks for the insight.

the blue whale

Hey @hanen steemit front and backend platform re changing at the time i'm writing this comment The developer team of steemit inc re working hard to improve lots of functionalities and it is normal to see lots of bugs or things caused by whale since steemit is the first CMS app created on the steem blockchain even with a 2 years of existence. All those problems will be solved in the next few months even the upvoting system will change and we will see lots of new tokens and businesses based on the steem Blockchain in addition to D-tube D-live and Busy.org with the SMT : Smart Media Token :)

There should be a limit on how many times an account can self vote, such as 5 times in a 24 hour period.  Abuse would be cut down significantly without taking away the privilege of being able to self vote from everyone.

It is getting out of control, I am fairly new to Steemit but it is super difficult to compete.. I see tons of a picture and minimal content at the top.. but tons of way more in depth content being passed over simply because it is hard to find.

I am not 100% educated on the pool reward at this point.. but it is sad to hear that possible rewards for original content writers is being taken by people/bots doing what you illustrated.

Meanwhile, @abusereports is flagging bots that only answer when people call them (the exact **opposite** definition of spam)...

https://steemit.com/abuse/@trincowski/re-abusereports-flag-report-2018-05-08-20180508t172419991z#@abusereports/re-trincowski-re-abusereports-flag-report-2018-05-08-20180508t173936660z

... and flagging users that leave short comments for the sole reason they don't speak English well:

https://steemit.com/abuse/@trincowski/re-abusereports-flag-report-2018-05-08-20180508t172419991z#@palmerjm1/re-trincowski-re-abusereports-flag-report-2018-05-08-20180509t033949948z


Kind of ridiculous, in my opinion.

I support you in your content friend you are very right, excellent post.