Nice post share. I thinks you are great photography. Thanks for sharing this post. Upvoted @tarazkp

There's nothing more disheartening then to spend a lot of time carefully writing your post, publishing it and seeing that more than half the comments are just some generic line of spam. 

I don't really mind if people leave short comments, as long as it adds something unique to the conversation. 
Flagging them seems fair, that's why the option is there.

Btw, as a newbie, I'd like to know how upvoting your own comments is perceived? Is it something that shouldn't be done or just in some cases?

Nice post sir.Upvote and resteem done.![IMG_3437.GIF](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaAFY3cYRvDZmJzXzZjPShphSdEyuxt8E8TCqj3HDgsRK/IMG_3437.GIF)

Sometimes I feel it is better to ignore these comments. Probably you will have the same person commenting on every single post of yours the same way. Once they realize that you ignored them, they will stop after a while.
But flagging is also a good option to get rid of spammers in this platform.

Does this count as reconstituted meat?

![spam.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcdvMnnQqXiUhRqaxjNJNygppAPDyKGdmWVqZKw4afYET/spam.jpeg)

At the very least it has a spicy twist :)

But, and I know a gal shouldn't start a sentence with this word, I agree with your article.

It must be frustrating when you have reached a certain level through solid grind to have folks ride on your back seeking attention with showy comments.

That said ~ I couldn't help myself or perhaps I should say;

*The devil made me do it!*

xox

I always just thought of those big graphic comments as obnoxious and cheap but never really considered them to be self-promoting, hijacking or guerrilla marketing techniques. However now that you say that, I completely see your point. That's interesting.

I have noticed that spamming comments have decreased somewhat in the past few months but maybe people are just adapting and finding new creative ways to spam that are less obvious. Thanks for pointing this out

I'd like to see a mechanism where the author sets a minumum rep required to comment. It would no doubt attract some big celebrities who are sick of low value trolls on other sites. It'd also incentivise people to safeguard their reputation score.

What I also noticed is that there are a bunch of people who will comment regularly on your post, not just in a spammy fashion, in the hope of getting upvotes on their comments but never upvote the post that they are commenting on. I monitor this behaviour on steemd or steemblockexplorer, stop rewarding them and they quickly disappear to go and pester someone else.

It's sad how some people think that advertising and spamming on someone else's comment section will get them votes and popularity. The mentality of "there is no such thing as negative publicity" needs to go away. People should learn what works and what doesn't. Ask themselves if they would respond the same way if someone else spammed.

Funny thing is that spammers won’t even read this post and you’ll be flagging comments on your post about how you are going to flag them lol!

Thanks for good post.👍

Don't understand the use of spamming in comments. Do they really get upvotes for "great post, follow me"? Doubt it can be enough to warrant the effort needed for this. 

Maybe what is needed is a I am human test every 5 comments or something along those lines to make sure software isn't making the same comment over and over. 

One I have noticed a lot lately is pulling one photo from the post and saying something like "I like this photo the best" or "great photo". 

Anyways please flag away and crush the spammers. Just maybe a few will surrender.

>If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like duck it is probably: Spam.

You reeled me in with that one. Never saw the "Spam" coming. It hit me in the face like a can of Spam. 

Yeah, there are a lot of ways to spam people on Steemit. You can post garbage in their comment section in the hope of getting noticed. You can send them 0.001 SBD to their wallet with a message (If you're not followers, follow Linkdin or Facebook's example and charge a higher fee for the privilege). You can post garbage and/or porn and hope that it catches someone's eye. However you look at it, it's a magician's trick, all an illusion and then it's gone. 

There's no substance. There's no real content, it's just a temporary attention-grab. It's someone asking for change outside the grocery store. They just want a handout, not a relationship. Eventually it gets annoying. I'm sorry to hear you've been pushed to the point where you're going to start flagging. Not that I blame you. Not that spam doesn't deserve it, but it's just sad to see people get abused like that.

sometimes I flag them, sometimes I mock them. But I always send them to steemcleaners for the sp freebies

https://steemcleaners.org/abuse-report/

I have received numerous of the comment spam which had a signature imbeded, a comment for my current post and several links to the commenters posts. On a current poem, two members tagged each other in greeting but left no comment on my post.  I agree that this is not proper behavior yet haven't ever flagged a comment yet. Thank you for addressing the issue again.

Very well written :)

Just check out my newest post [Here]() please

Haha sorry, I could not resist. I completely agree with you. I am still quite new around these parts and I am sure I do not get the same amount of spam comments as you do, but already I get quite annoyed by all the either default generic comments or the straight up not post relates comments asking for follow4follow vote for vote where it is clear that they did not even take the time to read the post.
Luckily I have not yet encountered any comments trying to take the shine away from others comments by using banners, so I got that going for me... which is nice.

Anyway, thank you for another good read