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u are totally right broher or sister

Yes.
Also, @wang needs to get slapped with the ban hammer.

Policing spam is a very challenging task in a world where we wish to avoid censorship and protect freedom of expression.  

We have some ideas on how to flag accounts that are prone to abuse.

Some of these spammers are hoping to get a few casual or accidental votes, which they often do. Instead of making a fake post, spammers, please use that time to write two good paragraphs on a subject that interests you. In the same amount of time, you can make some legitimate money and your account will not get flagged for spam.

The reason these copy cats exist is because every stupid "introduce yourself" was getting a ton of upvotes.  I personally believe a very small percentage of them represent actual people introducing themselves truthfully. Some interesting creative writting, sure, and maybe I'm just cynical, but most of the content seems to be built to get upvotes rather than people actually upvoting interesting content.  As soon as someone does make a post in some random topic that gets a bunch of upvotes you can be sure there will be a billion copies of that as well.  The solution is to pay more attention to the content we are individually supporting instead of trying to bandwagon onto popular ideas for the rewards.

Yes, good ideas!

I love this beautiful ideal that animates the community Steemit. But freedom has a price. There will always be someone who will abuse. This is the dark side.

im fine with you.help vote me..

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Perhaps users could be given the ability to pay for a button or flair that goes onto another user that everyone can see (the flair or button could appear everywhere near the username). The funds for these tags go back into the communal pool / new user faucet or something.

Yes. This is needed quickly. Adding these 3 features would help

* An Account block list in preferences (each user can decide to block annoying users posts completely)
* A Tag block list in preferences (each user can block tags they don't want to see) 
* A language setting in account preferences (so each user can choose to see only posts in languages they can read)

This would allow users to block annoying users,  allow users to block entire subjects, and allow users to only see posts they can read. Users can tag posts with spam or scam or nsfw, to make policing a community effort instead of a position, then each user decides to block or unblock those tags.  If it is setup this way, each user would be responsible for their own comfort, and no moderators would be needed yet.