Do you propose to flag EVERY thank you, nice post and other similar comments, or do you propose to flag only comments with self upvotes?
There is a deal, the platform has a lot of not English users, which post their "Thank you" and "Nice post" just because they don't know English and would like to get some attention from others. It's not their fault that Steemit doesn't have a translation feature and they cannot comment with their native language. Flagging these guys would just kill their accounts and Steemit as an idea.
On the other side of that coin - if i would downvote any big guy, as a reply from his side i would expect that he just downvote all my posts and kill my reputation and my account
Steemit, as a platform should be more smart and just deduct all selfvotes from paychecks.
Proposing to perform our "civil duty" would only implement "hate each other" policy and would lead to creating Steemit police and Steemit government with taxes and others required attributes
just my 5 cents
No, no, no! Not at all. It's cool to post with the shortest comment in the world, I think that it becomes problematic when you're just writing nice, cool, etc, etc, etc and upvoting it yourself 100%. That's the issue.
Thanks for the input!
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Way big excellent point. I use Google translate often just to enjoy as many posts on Steemit as I can, and I imagine others do the same. I am sure this is not the majority at all, but if someone is just wanting to leave basic comment of "Nice post", and I look at their profile and they leave this comment a lot on almost all posts, is it still not possible this is a real human who enjoys the posts they are calling out nice? I don't have to upvote them, but it feels really really odd to take that initiative to flag them as though I know 100% who or what is behind that user name as well as their motivations. It is just too much to think about rather than muddy up the system by doing false flags and scaring users away.
Good point about non English speakers @allfabeta! Although I feel like if someone can't speak English and doesn't use the Google Translate or whatever they shouldn't be just saying nice post if they don't understand what is being said just to get some attention, not all attention is good and perhaps it wouldn't hurt to auto translate some posts they are interested in instead of throwing random words out there. That's just my opinion.
However whenever I do get comments like that and/or people asking me to check their posts out, I always do and make sure I find something I like and upvote it just to be nice and spread the wealth as far as I can.
I always check out blogs of all strangers who dropped Thank you and Nices under my posts.
Why? Because I afraid to miss something interesting. Who knows what might be hidden behind "Thank you" or "Welcome" comment.
I'd rather flag bots with their "welcome-read_my_post" and Follow_4_follow from people with 40+ reputation
For sure, automated content kills me too . . .