With other scams I mean people that are kind of cheating. Some are very obvious. Like I saw a guy that wrote 6 days in a row an identical comment below his own post. That were the only 6 comments and he gave them all his own upvote. He repeated this with more of his posts. So he probably earned a nice amount of real money.
I think there are more of these kind of things. Which were not mentioned in a white paper. And in the this could be a very valid reason to scare off new users.
Well, yes they are some of this around ...
There is so much not mentioned in the WP my friend, sooo much! ;) People should not be scare about it but they should learn that as a community we can do something about it. Steem is still 2 years old only, look what happens with BTC still after more than 5 years ;)
I think we need to give a bit of time and of course, a lot of education and learning.
You are right that it will probably take some time. And scammers can be found every where.
Question is if it will ever work near perfect? If not steemit will probably die in the end and get replaced by a similar platform that works even better.
For now I think this is one of the best and most fun ways to learn something about crypto.
You got the point! ;)