Hello @thatgermandude, first of all I would like to thank you, in order to to use the steemit-police and steemit-abuse exactly the way it should be used. 

Since I sing up in steemit, I've been learning every day about the purpose of it, how it works, and what is the better and right way to use it. 
there are some specific rules such as copy steal a post from another person, and post like it was you the one behind that Idea. I would say Everyone agreed with that.

but due to the decentralized nature of steemit there are others things people are still not in agreed if it is right or not.

For instance I have read post saying that Users such as @randowhale, @booster, and @belly should not exist. using the argument that they reward those who pay then instead of quality content. at the same time there are a big group of steemians (mainly new users) who see in the this accounts an opportunity to make their post more visible having then a better chance to be noticed.

I bring up this couse I like to bring up the diference between what is wrong by steemit definition and what is considered wrong by a group of people.
this is a really complex talking and I think a healthy discussion to steemit community.

I'm not saying my behavior sending those welcome messages to hundred of people, which in fact I did, is right. but that despite of look like a spamming message my intention was offer help and support to new users who might be feeling lost and lack of information. 

since the very first day I came here I have noticed that are bot accounts who send the same message to all posts using the introduceyourself tag, such as @bottymcbotface and @welcomebot. again, I'm not saying they are right or wrong on doing it. 

In your post you linked the [Drif souls](thttps://steemit.com/funny/@andyluy/drift-souls) post as an example of a plagiarism post, but I sincerely see as a distorted even a little dishonest  argument since you have omitted the fact that this was my very first autoral post here on steemit when my account was fresh new and didn't really know what steemit really was about and you made it looks like this is the kind of things I use to post. I invite you all to have a look in my [profile](https://steemit.com/@andyluy) to see with your own eyes.

So as you could see, despite of having started with a poorly post due to the lack of experience and information about steemit, after my 3rd post I start investing my time to not only study by myself and learn about steemit, but to producing quality autoral posts and especially posts about the things I've spend hours studying how it works in order to help others not having to pass through the hard time searching about it. 

so when I already have about 4 posts like that I decided I will do like those who spam useless "welcome" or "nice post follow me and I follow back" But I'll be posting recommendation of links that I think it might be useful to them and which I would have loved to receive in my first posts, and also offering help with any question or issues they might been facing to starting know steemit.

I have no bot for that, in fact don't even know how to build or run one, it is some of the thing that is on my learning lists couse I believe it is a Knowledge that can be useful in ones life. so I did send each one of that messages by myself individually, which tokes hours of my day, for weeks.  and I was getting something like 98% of positive feedback. lots of people who have seen my posts and liked have become followers, which is the main reason of I managed to have more than 1000 followers in 2 months, if they think I'm just a useless spammer I don't believe their reaction wold be keep following me.

yesterday in fact had the Idea of using the @randowhale to upvotes my welcome posts, and it end being not well received and leading us to this post.

well I sincerely don't see that as a crime or a playing against the rules, but I've realized it bothered a lot of people and despite of what I think, now That I have a better understanding the meaning of steemit. and it is all about respect, so in respect of all of those who were bothered of my welcoming posts I truly apologize, and say that I'll manage to change some of my habits that was badly received.

about my voting habits, well yesterday right before I made this welcome frenzy motivated by the new change of the randowhale it was under 50% of selfvotes, as far as I know selfvote is not a crime, in fact if it was steemit platform would simple remove this action. I fully understand that one who come here buying tons of SP and only vote himself (which is something I've seen) can be considered a harm to steemit community, which definitely is not my case 

1° couse I have less than 800 SP and my vote worth about 13 cents,

2° the +5200 Sp that I have (wich means something about 70 cents vote) I  lease from @minnowbooster paying from my own poket 120 SBD for it for 4 weeks selfupvoting is the way to have this investiment back and it even was on the @minnowbooster  advertisement and you can see [for yourself here](https://steemit.com/minnowbooster/@minnowbooster/minnowbooster-has-a-gift-for-you). Despite of all of this I don't really think I owe you @thatgermandude any explanation about my voting habits, only did in respect of those who might trusted me and might get themself fooled by your once more out of context and, in my opinion dishonest, argument.

Summarizing despite of some things I've already pointed before Your post is greatly constructed I'm truly glad to see #steemit-police which was [a tag I created](https://steemit.com/steemit-police/@andyluy/steemit-police) in order to help steemit community growing healthy being used to expose ones having a behavior that are bothering people, especially If I'm this one, so I can read and understand why my habits have bothered then, make my intentions and point of view listened too, and properly say I'm sorry for every one who I've bothered. 

Thank you for hosting this opportunity to let things clear.

I have reviewed your post and anduluy answer and honestly I do not see you have a CLEAR case here for abuse. There are currently much worse cases for abuse, like the top whale authors. Let's target them. I upvoted your post in the beginning, but now wondering whether it was correct or not.  I find good bots useful and do not see anything bad in them.  (Upvoted for this comment for visibility and yes, upvoting yourself is NOT A BAD THING.)

Good information. Thanks for support me back @maulanailham

So we could use @Cheetah to check comments as well!

thanks was really helpful..... Upvoted!! please kindly folow back

This is an absolutely excellent post, even if I personally would have opted to leave the identity of the potentially offending user anonymous at this stage. :c) This could have been a powerful warning without drawing unwanted attention. Still - a very good example of detectivework (Thank you kindly for the steemreports.com link - its a nice tool. Also my compliments on refraining from self-upvoting ^_^).

From that which you say, I do believe that @andyluy is what, in gamer terms, we call a 'power gamer'. A power gamer of the worse kind will do absolutely anything and everything that s/he feels that s/he is able to get away with on the game table (plenty of power gamers refrain from the worst behaviors).

This we could lay entirely at his or her feet - but it would be fair to consider the climate of 'the game table' (Steemit).

<b>The platform permits payout-affecting self-upvotes</b>

It does. 

I can upvote any of my posts and any of my comments. 

Any user can. 

Never mind that its a hollow practice that means little in determining the true quality of one's content.

This contributes toward the, at best, pretentious helping of oneself to the steemit reward pool.

<b>The platform promotes quantity over quality</b>

Sure - quality content is more likely to gain a decent amount of attention...

However any have figured out and chosen to act upon the information that they can get greater overall payouts by courting sensationalism, intrigue and simple interest in bite-sized chunks - a convincing image from a 3rd party source, 2-3 paragraphs that they banged together themselves, and they're gold.

How else does one consistently rattle out the suggested 4+ posts daily over the long term? ;c)

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I see that I've turned yet another comment into a mini-post. ¬_¬

One last thing. I also spent a period visiting a lot of user's introduction posts (it was the only way for a person with my kind of comments to tally 500 comments over 10 days for a contest). While these comments certainly had a fair bit in common with each other, they benefited each user (or at least the majority of them).

My point being that I can see some value to these comments. ^_~

While @andyluy isn't using a bot - the content is repetitive. It could be argued they provide a service.  If you don't like it - flag it. If they retaliate then let someone me or someone else from @spaminator or @steemcleaners know in [steemit.chat.](https://steemit.chat)

@patrice

The Spaminators

And here I am trying to make consistent posts and up votes and follows, resteems and comments... lol I also ran into this person on my feed.  :(

I think you have a case to do as you please. Having said that, have a look at @personz and @smackdownkitty to see if they can add to their list. 

Three are a few others and a quick line to @personz in chat may help you get a better path than going it alone. At least he is deep enough in knowledge to point you in a direction.