Yup, happens quite a bit.
Also I noticed some of this kinds of comments get upvoted quite a bit - makes me wonder if there is a trail of other steemians that group and follow each other upvoting each others' comments... My hope is they will eventually get weeded out. Though after my experience with flagging for plagiarism and consequential mass-downvote by the trail of spammers I suggest do reporting these comments to the cleaners.
But I hear ya - happened in my neck of the woods too.
The cleaners is definitely a good idea for the serial ones. I have reported the ones where when you visit their profile is just a sea of copy paste spam comments.
That is the annoying thing, that it pays off for them because they get occasional upvotes
Agree!
There's always going to be a percentage of people that freeload. I guess if we all just do our job by curating (and reporting when necessary) this will keep them to the minimum.
Absolutely!! The majority are actually good bunch!