Hi, I also agree with you here. Crap posts being upvoted, nonsense anti-global warming posts also getting upvoted (for all we know global warming is happening right in front of our very eyes). After reading your whole post I came to realize that because of the rewards steemit is offering people flocked to steemit with the hope of earning. When a reward is offered expect that people will grab the opportunity including those who have little to offer that end up spamming, plagiarizing, and copy pasting articles from the internet. With that said, its negative effects will be the negative you see on steemit like spam, plagiarism, copy paste, hate, bullying, trolling, nonsense. These effects are the reflection of the society we live in. Let's admit it that every social media we see today have its negative and positive effects. 

To be honest I am struggling to find a rational person like you here in steemit that seem to care on the society we live in. Most steemit users I came to see are just posting to earn and be upvoted by a bot they pay to upvote their posts.

Hey @odd1, commenting here just to correct some misunderstandings. Actually, Steemit was having problems with posting, commenting and upvoting stuff and so many people were complaining about one post being published multiple times. So that could be the problm with the guy you have mentioned. 
I can't imagine someone with 61 reputation points would spam posting the same post as no one would want to lose their hard earned repo. :D 
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Welcome to steemit @odd1.

> Is steemit really as bad as I think?

Yes, it is (maybe even worse).

You already mentioned the global-warming deniers and anti-vaxxers, but have you found the flat-earthers on steemit? 

There are high amounts of steempower owned by and delegated to users promoting such nonsense. 

Be a bit careful with exposing and downvoting this BS, look for example what happened to the account of one of my followers after posting <a href="https://steemit.com/vaccines/@i-repost/how-to-make-a-decent-profit-off-of-anti-vaxx-retards-on-steemit"><em>this</em></a> or more recently to <a href="https://steemit.com/@kerriknox"><em>this account</em></a>.

As already remarked, some of the double postings these days are caused by the fact that steemit.com is not working properly and some operations are not getting displayed. When up/downvoting or posting something, it's advisable to look at steemd.com whether the operation has been processed. 

But what one can see at these repeated posts is that a high percentage of votes is automated and done by bots, and many users (including ones with very high steempower) don't read what they upvote. 

Maybe the steemstem tag is better when looking for science posts, the science tag is often spammed with pseudo-science. There is a community of people interested in science: https://steemit.chat/channel/steemSTEM

Please don't use the introduceyourself tag repeatedly, it should only be used once (I think you can edit tags apart from the first one).

That is really an important issue.  And there is option for the other users to down vote spam content.  They should practice it on such scammer.

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I understand the frustration about the quality of content (or lack thereof) that you express here. I like to think of this as a reflection of the world and societies that we form a part of. There is an insane amount of crap out there, and there is a willing audience that is ready to buy that crap as long as it confirms to their preexisting bias or prejudice. Or if it makes them money. We can expect to see the same in this website because it is just a smaller sample of the real world. 


Having said that, the world has managed to remain a little sane and rational (I know you can dispute that) and there are little rays of light scattered around here and there if you are really serious about looking. Well-intentioned people in the real world have been known to give up and stop trying, yes. And that can be expected to happen here too. So I am eager to see how this experiment involving a tussle of reason, silliness, and greed turns out in the end. It will at least tell us a little bit more about our world.