The whole spam accounts thing seems to be getting out of hand @steevc. A friend of mine joined Steemit a couple of weeks ago and was really excited because they got over sixty followers in the first ten days.
When I checked for her, every single one was spam of some sort.
I've only been here since last December and that's a big change since then. 😢
It will change again when it really starts to grow. I fear the spam will be a real problem unless we get the tools to deal with it.
I'm just amazed at how much it's changed, and keeps chaning for the worse, in the short time I've been here.
The latest seems to be people just posting comments on posts so they can self-upvote. I just had someone do that with three consecutive replies to the tune of more than $1. I've muted them and reported them to Steemcleaners but I'm not sure they are actually doing something that's not allowed #sad;
Anything is 'allowed', but it's a case of what will be tolerated by the community
And "quite a lot" is the answer I feel. 😁
Have a lovely Bank Holiday Monday!