πŸ™ŒπŸš― Dear Newbies Read & Learn ! STOP IT !!!!! 🚯 πŸ™Œ

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πŸ“£πŸš― Seriously ! If you want upvotes / follows /or resteems , read some helpful advice ! The garbage posts and crap that is littering steemit with no proper comments or replies is getting worse every day ! Even in my feed it takes 30 minutes or longer to find a decent post to upvote , or even a veteran member that's posting anything good these days ! Its like where did all the veterans go anyways !? Did they also get tired of the crap , mostly from all the hundreds of thousands of members that have recently flooded Steemit in droves ! ? We all know that your new , and learning the platform can be very challenging , but Seriously! Its time to address some issues that are currently plaguing Steemit by Newbies ! ! πŸ“£πŸš―

πŸ“£ (1) STOP SPAMMING !

Pretty self explanatory ! Im tired of getting tons of replies in my posts asking me to upvote your post by leaving me links that don't even have anything to do with my post itself !!! And now you guys have Bots doing your dirty work for you ! Not only that but your constantly asking for upvotes / follows / resteems , in private messaging , as well as on steemit chat post promotion over and over , its relentless really ! And makes me not want to upvote / resteem / or follow you ever !!! Please STOP begging everyone for upvotes , its getting you no where , in fact i'm more likely to mute you because i'm tired of being bothered about it all the time ! I'm sure that's why most veterans are not on here much anymore like they used to be !!

πŸ“£ (2) STEEMIT CHAT!

Read number 1 ! Also in case you didn't realise , by asking for Upvote for Upvote in postpromotion as well as in private messaging is totally wrong ! My upvote as well as many veteran steemers is worth much more then your upvote even at a 1 percent vote ! We only get 10 / 100% upvotes per day , do you really think we will trade with you !? As well as resteeming !? We have way more followers then you do ! When you resteemed my post no one sees it ! But tons see yours , so what your asking for is 99% in your favor !!! Of course at times we like to help out all new members ,but we will do it when we see something that deserves it and we like it !! STOP harrasing every one , everywhere ! ALSO STOP posting your links every 5 min. In post promotion , your hogging the feed and burrying everyone else's links that we are trying to promote ! ONLY POST THE SAME LINK ONCE EVERY 2 HOURS ! Spamming again !! Tsk Tsk !πŸ‘ŽπŸ‘ŽπŸ‘Ž

πŸ“£πŸ™Œ OK ! End of Rant ! Remember , patience and persistence along with dedication will pay off in the end , once you gain more QUALITY followers , Over Time ! It took me a year of working my but off , without spamming and begging , to get up to 1500 + followers ! Just relax , blog like you normally would anywhere else without expecting to get paid for it like you do here ! Have fun , comment , enter contests to win some money , and the followers and money will eventually take care of itself !! Best of luck to you all and WELCOME TO STEEMIT !! We are one big happy family here !! Steem On My Friends !πŸ‘


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Β 7 years agoΒ (edited)Β 

I know exactly what you mean about the garbage posts and fake comments. I don't have lots and lots and lots of posts because I've been trying to create original content or at least write about events in my own words rather than just copy and paste from online sources.

I have also noticed that some of the comments (not that I get a whole lot) on my posts are fake. Just generic comments that will on any post or at least into a topic.

Thanks for your awesome comment ! There's bots now that are just dropping generic comments on posts , some are hitting all the new posts that are being put up !! They have nothing to do with the post itself !!! Its really getting bad and im tired about it !! Thanks for posting and commenting properly , its much appreciated and welcome to steemit ! Im following you now ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

You're very welcome @karenmckersie ! I plan do my part to help Steemit be a place where we can all share genuine thoughts, ideas, editorials, opinions, news and anything else authentic which we like to write and read about.

yes for sure ! This is how it used to be months ago , before 200,000 people joined steemit ! LOL! Thanks for that @nanibear ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Can I ask...how do you know if it is a bot doing the generic post?

because its just some random GIF with a link to their post that has noting even to do with what your post is about !! or its a random link saying up vote this ! Or something like that , if you get it in your comments you can just tell its from a bot the GIF is totally different then what your posting about ! Like "mm mm yummy food "( as an example) When your post is about "the price of steem "say ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Good to know! I'm going to flag them ;-). Should I put a random gif on this reply? Just kidding...

well you don't need to flag them its up to you , I have not flagged anyone YET ! LOL! I just stop following or never follow to begin with if I know that's what they do , or you can mute them , and for sure DON'T UP VOTE Any of their stuff , maybe then they will learn ! Lo!! πŸ˜‚πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

https://steemit.com/steemit/@moniev/genuine-upvoting
BEING A NEWBIE MYSELF I WROTE THAT POST AND I TOTALLY SUPPORT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. IF GENUINE ORIGINAL WORK IS UPVOTED WE WOULD INSPIRE A LOT MORE ORIGINAL STUFF AND NOT GARBAGE

https://steemit.com/steemit/@moniev/genuine-upvoting
being a newbie myself l noticed that people create followers and not good original posts. how about upvoting a piece because of originality not some gibberish whch overload the platform

Haha, your gifs are great.πŸ˜„

haha thanks ! I get them giphy.com ! Its a lot of fun , and as they say sometime a picture is worth a thousand words ! LOL! πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ‘

This post received a 3.0% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @karenmckersie! For more information, click here!

thanks ! πŸ‘

At first i thought I would be nice and help out people with low reputation but then my inbox was blowing up asking me to upvote posts that I would end up getting .01 cent on mine. It takes me days to put together a post but yet I see some people posting multiple times a day, everyday. That makes me question the content.

@ptmikesteem I kinda know what you mean about it taking you some time (can be days) to put together good content. Some of this depends on how we are living. If some us have 9 - 5 (or any hours) jobs then it can be VERY difficult to get put together a good post. If some of us are more independent and have learned to make money on their own time, or have bought assets which makes us money, (no punching the clock and grinding away for the boss) we have much more free time and with that often more free creative energy in us to write.

Family is a factor too. Kids. Or taking care of elderly parents/grandparents. There are so many factors. So its really difficult to tell by just judging by the amount of content someone is publishing.

It could be that they have the free time and energy to do that or it could indicate that they are just pumping out garbage which took very little, if any, effort and brainpower to create.

I did the same and the same thing happened to me as well ! I mean sure sometimes I put up some quick posts like when im entering a contest ! Which I do a lot LOL! But the bots spamming my comments is driving me crazy !! Thanks for your awesome reply !!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

there is an inbox?

I think she means, when you send somone 0.001 SBD you can add a private message by starting with # and followed by message in the memo field.

I can usually find at least 1 quality or interesting post each hour from the three hundred and something people I follow. They are pretty great actually!
Maybe my standards are lower than yours or I don't know any better.

exactly , They are few and far between ! Im actually following like over 1,200 people but the counter up top is not working properly ! LOL! Thanks for your reply , much appreciated !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Thanks for this. I am new here and have not posted anything yet, but will do shortly. I wasn't going to ask anyone for anything, because that kind of behavior always annoyed me. But it seems that is par for the course on steemit?

If I were here in the comments begging others to like my stuff...I don't know...it smacks of desperation to me.

But thanks for this article. I don't want to be the newbie douche bag haha.

You are very welcome, and thanks for your awesome reply you are so right , nobody likes beggers! Im glad to help and wish you all the best on steemit! Im really thinking things are going to pick up in the New Year and BOOM!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ’

Excellent advice. In my first week on steemit I've found that I make the most money by putting 1-2 hours of work into a single post. My highest reward has been $46 worth in 12 hours and i poured my heart out about my wife, her birthday and our fun weekend together at a local state park with good and unique pics (yoga pictures at the waterfall and some racy pics of my wife in her swimsuit).

My very limited experience has taught me that quality >>>>>> quantity and one should leave the post there and not do the upvote / resteem bartering that you talked about. Thanks for confirming my take on quality posting. Sad to hear that spam is clogging veterans' feeds. I hope my posts are viewed as quality material as I put a lot of effort into them and I truly want to learn how to create quality content that contributes to the community in a positive way.

I'm definitely following you as you seem to know your stuff. Thanks again for the information. It is very useful to know.

Nice comment.

Thanks so much for the follow and great reply ! Followed back and keep up the quality posting !!!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Hello @karenmckersie, guess you remember me. Though i did not like the wise you talked to me i have to see you are right. Spamming is some incredible probleme and won't help anyone in the longterm, not the author, not the readers.
Just wanted to make clear your advice had some effect and we won't get similar problems in the future. Thanks for spending your time into this. I resteemed in hope to get some more audience ;) Have a nice day

That is awesome ! Thank you for taking the time to read my post , I really am just trying to help the new members as it can be very challenging to learn everything on here ! Im so glad it helped you to understand more what I wax getting at , thanks also for the resteem ! The more people can learn the better it will be for all of us to enjoy this awesome platform ! Steem on my friend ! I will follow you as a thank you !! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Great Post and so TRUE! Amazing to see how people can become when they are anonymous (more or less) and money is involved. It seems that common sense and rational is suddenly flushed down the toilet.

haha great comment !! Thanks so much , you are sooooo right !! LOL! All rationale is right out the window !!!! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Well said Karen! Just today i got like 4 comments of new people asking for upvotes and spamming my post with their own links. It's frustrating to see more and more every day. There should be like an etiquette when people sign up so they know what NOT to do....

I totally agree ! It should be the first thing they read on the welcome to steemit page , and introduction !!! Like a list of DONTS ! HAHA !πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ Thanks for your awesome reply !!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

You are welcome! Lol yes a list of Donts would be great! Haha

LOL! Yup!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

patience persistence and the big one like everything in life ... its who you know that will make the difference as there is a ton of writers trying to mine coins ... and few readers here for now .. join whale share and the communities and join the miners ... if it was a real fair social media platform everyones votes would be equal .... but they are not so until the day self voting and those who have money to invest will continue to make the lion share of the mined coins ...
but people will be people ...
https://steemit.com/science/@thelifeofbrian/people-deliberately-avoid-information-that-threatens-their-happiness

Well Said My fellow Steemian !!! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

I've only been on the platform for a month and I plan to stop using it because of how difficult it is to find a good article or poetry, this is filling up with garbage

Thanks for your great comment ! And that's exactly how many of us veterans feel , its Seriously getting ridiculous , and the bot comments as well are driving me crazy !! Steem on my friend and welcome to steemit ! Following you now , best of luck !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸš€

hi @leviatan I feel kinda sad after reading your comment about wanting to leave Steemit</strong) after a month of what seemed to mostly garbage posts here. I hope that you'll stick around a little longer and see if there's more here.

Yes ! IAgree !!! Don't let a few bad apples ruin the bunch !!!πŸ‘

All sort of great and original works here man
https://steemit.com/trending/poetry

I agree.

You think this is bad, wait until Steemit comes out with a private messenger function and people can start sending unsolicited dick pics.

OMG !! It will be Mute , Mute , Mute !!! Hopefully I can even do that !! LOL! πŸ‘πŸ˜‚

Karen, good job!! I hate the spamming by newbies. So far I have been ignoring them. I have a question for you, are you a fan of the NFL? Thanks, Steem on!!

thanks for your awesome comment ! As you can see I also hate all the spamming , now they have bots doing the dirty work for them !!! Sorry not an NFL fan but my son certainly is ! @mmckersie ! He just recently joined steemit ! Im a major Canadian Hockey fan !! LOL! Steem on my friend !πŸ‘πŸˆ

OK - good to hear your son is a fan. I will check out his posts, thanks Karen! Full Steem ahead!!

cool ! He's not on too much yet but I will let him know ! Thanks!πŸ‘

Well stated! Have you seen the recent people who's goal is to follow every single user on here? I dislike that too. I'm not sure what the point of following every person is. You'd never have time to go through your feed and read and thoughtfully respond to hardly anyone. I wish I could keep those kinds of people from following me!

haha ! I somehow have way more people im following then I should , im well over 1200 more like 1500 I haven't gone to the stats on that for while as my ticker on top is not working properly !! And im starting to delete a bunch now that I have to be blatant spammers and just don't post anything good , its all garbage ! You can mute people as well ! Then their stuff wont show up in your feed !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

That's good to know. I wondered what that was for! I mean I made an educated guess...but it's nice to know that's what it's really for!

glad to help!!πŸ‘

You gotta flag them, Karen. :-)

It is the only way to be sure they get the message.

Ooh I went through this months ago , once I flagged someone and it turned into a battle of flag wars again ! Some people don't take it as a simple down vote , which I wish we had a separate button for ! I just don't have time for a flagging argument with someone , nobody likes being flagged ! Im going to stop following a ton of people once I find time to go through my need over time , I will also be muting some! Thanks for your awesome reply ! And I totally understand where your coming from , Nuke Them All ! Hahaha !πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

that was a well said rant. I completely agree. I think there was a time I to begged for votes however I grew out of it and am now also frustrated by those people. You build your following the old fashioned way. I an not as high as you but I would not have gotten to a 50 by begging. I try to do quality posts today. However what may be quality to one may not be to another. What perplexes me is at about 385 followers I hear from VERY FEW of these people. Where are they???? I have about a dozen true followers. Don't know where the rest are. Do they see my blogs or are they too busy getting more upvotes from additional new followers? I follow about 70 people. You my friend are one of them. Thanks for your good posts. I try to as well however I learn from folks like you and hope that all may choose to truly follow. - Again thanks for sharing. - Troy

Thanks for the awesome comment its much appreciated !! Im also a follower of yours ! And like you out of all the people I follow or that follow me there's like a handful I actually interact with and up vote on a regular basis , especially since the last hard fork and we only have 10 / 100% up votes per day , so im still trying to find the sweet spot , so I can up vote more per day !! Unless its an awesome post where I would give a 100% vote on , I usually give a 20 to 50% vote as I don't like my power to drop below 60% ! Anyways thanks again ! Best of luck to you !! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

I totally agree.
While I am a newbie, I have been trying to stick to the "steemit etiquette" as much as possible. It's pretty irritating when you spend a lot of time on a post and it instantly get's buried by a wave of random short-lived content and is only commented on by what are obviously bots. This is particularly true of the very popular tags such as photography or life, where people seem to use it as a dumping ground for any kind of vaguely related content.
I am hopeful though, as I believe steemit is only just coming out of its infancy and will develop solutions to those problems as it grows and improves.

yes for sure ! The future of steemit im sure will be much better , in the past year I have been on , a ton of stuff has all ready improved !! Thanks for your awesome reply !!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Β 7 years agoΒ (edited)Β 

Sometimes I don't even know where to go to find decent posts to read. I cant imagine the feeling of people who have been here for awhile feeling like theyre losing their platform to the spammers

Your so right ! And this is exactly how I feel . The spammers are taking over ! Thanks for your awesome reply ! Best of luck to you , all ready following you and will continue to do so my friend ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

I think, when people who are already established , if they spend some time to look at newbies posts and only support them who do not spam, or who write on their own, will change the trend.

Because when a new person is joining, he gets many such comments and its obvious to get trapped. So if the guys who already have gone to the top, spend some time, to filter out the good ones and promote only them, then only this will change.

Artificial Intelligence can never beat the Natural Intelligence. So I urge the people who are on top, set up trends to beat these bots.

Awesome comment ! And I couldn't agree more , I really hope new people do start trends to beat these bots !!! Its getting worse everyday im on here ! Thanks so much for your great comment !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ’•

Well said Karen, it is getting much harder to find good stuff in Steemit, I also blame the newly arrived in their rush to earn millions (not possible in a week/month/year).

I think the buy your upvote bots have a big influence on this behaviour too, many accounts just throw up a copy & paste or use undredited images then buy an upvote cha-ching free money while p!ssing off the majority of Steemit community with garbage.

If this goes on too long, Steemit will end up losing it's longer term members who will just up and take their STEEM & SBD and leave...this will leave Steemit with a platform full of trash mostly.

As it is Steemiit is slowliy filling with bots, upvote bots, comment bots, curation bots...what next bots that actually write the posts for the bots to vote on and drain the rewards pool.

You got an upvote & resteem from me, more need to see this.
Steem on beyond the moon, lets take it way further than that. Good luck to us all.

Thank you so much for your awesome reply, the resteem and upvote ! ! We need to get the word out to these newbies to stop all the spamming and begging!!! the bots really are taking over as well , its just very tiring some days! hopefully something happens soon , there should definitly be a list of DONTS when they first sign up ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Such a great rant - It bothers me that some steemians who dedicate very little time to their posts, seem to do much better than my posts. I still enjoy putting the time and effort into my blogs, and do get frustrated with my feed, but its easy to scroll past the rubbish and unfollow the worst offenders.... I think the urge for Steem means its always tempting to look for a quick fix........ xxx

yes for sure ! Im starting to un follow the worst offenders , and as soon as I get a chance I will be going through my feed and either muting or um following them as well ! Also when they start spamming my comments I unfollow or write it down to never follow !! Thanks for your great reply!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

The garbage posts are infuriating. How can a human come on this platform and aspire with all their might to be a spambot? It boggles the mind.

Fortunately, Steemit's incentivization structures are so robust and encompassing that such people will run out of (haha) steam sooner or later. They won't get what they want. They literally can't.

haha that's awesome ! I agree Hopefully they run out of steem soon !!!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Copy/paste is obnoxious...

AGREED !! THANK YOU !!πŸ‘πŸ™

I have been seeing quite a few vet's of steenit posting about this issue. I have only been on steemit for about a month or so and I can see that doing what you have described is no way to go about doing this! I personally will never ask or beg for someone to up vote me in anyway, it is just ridiculous in my mind. I want to earn every follower I get, I will put in the work that is necessary to gain a strong follower-ship. I want people to follow me because they agree with, or at least respect my point of view. I want them to interact with me so that I can become better at creating content, I am doing this for them not me. Of course I get something out of it, and its not just money. I get life experience, and joy when I have impacted a persons life! I love the fact that so many vet's are posting about this issue, and I deeply respect all of your efforts to stem the tide of this spam disaster! Thank You!

Love your reply ! You are so right about earning the followers like I did over time as well as you ! And when you work at it you gain a strong following ! And that your doing this for them not you !! I feel the same way , and im glad to hear that more people are posting about this , I have not even had time to check my feed lately ! LOL! , maybe after im done replying to all my comments ! Haha thanks a bunch for your support , and im glad to be following you ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Thank you as well for this wonderful reply, and it is a honor to support your work. I believe in the end the people that put in work for there followers will win the day. I as well am glad to be following you!

Awe thanks ! It much appreciated !!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

I've actually refreshed my 'following' list and stopped following a lot of users who were just posting nonsense on the platform! It's time consuming to check on everyone, but really worth it to get a decent home feed!
Cheers
@progressivechef

Awesomeness ! I will be doing the same as soon as I get a chance ! Its driving me crazy !!! Thanks for your great reply , its good to hear !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Damn! i agree with you @karenmckersie - actually last week i made a post. angry post. And i havent been here for more than since June.... And getting so pissed actually by the people writing: upvoted - fantastic follow me - (example) and they haven't even read the post or upvoted. super annoying when you are actually trying to make some valuble content. I do this for me and the things i like. if people dont read it or upvote. and comment like that. i am not interested in answering them either! because if i did. i would propably get mad instead. so thank you as a more Veteran than me for postin this ! :) got my little attention and vote ;) <3 kind regards @camelx Norway :) this was the post. haha - propably many spelling wrongs and yeah.. i wrote fast and was furious :P
https://steemit.com/norway/@camelx/follow-me-amazing-post-you-haven-t-even-read-it-get-a-grip

I cant blame you at all ! Its getting ridiculous !! There really should be a list of DONTS As soon as people join along with the welcome post ! Im getting tired about !! Thanks for checking it out and the up vote ! I will check out your link πŸ‘

Good advice

thanks !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Yeah it has gotten pretty crazy and there are some users that seem to be pretty engaged but I can never tell if their content is original or not. Like I feel like they stole a bunch of artwork from someone else. But I really don't know.

I think some of the vetrans got slightly burnt out a little bit. I know for me that if I can make $100 / day on Steemit across 4 posts then I feel good about it. If I'm putting up posts that are earning $2 it makes it tougher for me to keep focusing on it because my expenses are so high and I spend too much time on here already.

Also it is really tough to keep up with my feed and try to look at all my friends posts on here. Then I feel like a rat bastards if I don't upvote. Right now my Steem voter isn't the premium service so I can only upvote 10 people and the rest I'm doing manually.

Agreed my friend ! Us veterans should be at least making over 5.00 dollars a post more like 10.00 but most of us are not , so many people are not up voting usually they are out of power like me ! Even with 1600 plus followers we are lucky to gey 50 up votes ! I t didn't used to be like this , we work our asses off to get this far after a year , and I feel like it was all for nothing sometimes ! LOL! πŸ‘

This is a fair post, though a bit angry, but I guess that can be understandable since it's always the same thing over and over again...

yes Hahaha ! Its very hard to try and put a point across to some spammers without hurting their feelings !! That's why at the end I said what I said , to be nice and explain that we are a big family , and once you have been here a long time and work your ass off , you too will feel the same the way ! Its starting to take over steemit in a bad way . Thanks so much for your great comment ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

https://steemit.com/steemit/@moniev/genuine-upvoting
i noticed the same thing as a newbie ans was failing to get some inspiration to post good stuff because of the garbage overloading the platform. it is really disturbing how genuine authorship is being confused on this platform with gibberish found

Exactly ! Its all getting barried in crap! ! πŸ‘

Thanks for the great info. As a newb, I'm still learning how to navigate and discern. It's been less than a week since I joined and I'm trying to stay on a decent track. Upvoted and resteemed!

That's great ! thanks so much for the upvote and resteemed ! We all had to learn when we started , I learned the hard way a year ago , LOL !! So if I can help even one person it makes me happy , and steemit a better place for all of us ! Best of luck to you , and welcome to steemit ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Great post Karen! I'm here to enjoy and have fun, trying to be original and creative.
I know... I'm just a mannequin, and I will never beg for followers, upvotes, resteems, etc.
Thanks again!
Big hug!
Steemitri, The Mannequin

Hahaha thanks for that , but I get at least 50 bot replies in comments every day and on steemit chat !! At least your a mannequin that can talk !! Will check out your latest post !πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ‘

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awesome thanks !! Will check it out !πŸ‘πŸ’™

This may sound weird, but before the Community Challenge I was highly annoyed with the comment spam f4f. During the challenge, I don't recall getting the comment spam. As soon as the challenge was over, bam, right back to the spam, only this time maybe they're bots.

Did this seem to happen for you too?

Im not sure ! LOL! Didn't really think about it , but maybe !?!? But I do know there is now a lot of bots doing the dirty work for them ! Thanks for your reply ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘following you now !

Yeah, I didn't either, it wasn't until my mom-challenge posts would go up and get hit by a bit that I looked back. Could just be coincidence

Amen sister, amen! L

Thank you ! Yes for sure Amen my friend !πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™

Can you visit my blog, upvote and resteem every post and clean my house?

Just kidding..... πŸ‘πŸ˜ƒ

Hahaha ! What a perfect example of what im constantly dealing with !! LOL! I Will Be Right Over ! Not !!! Hehehe , thanks for the laugh , love your comment !πŸ˜‚πŸ‘πŸ’™

INDEED GREAT POST I Appreciate

Thank you !πŸ‘

Great insight. That's what I'm doing. Although I'm new here, I never ask anyone one upvote or even follow me. I appreciate my follower much more that way. But it's so hard that I put so much time for in writing the post and only got couple of upvotes. I got discouraged and haven't past in couple days. You reminded me that I need to keep at it and everything will work out. Thanks.

Awesome thank you !! Don't let the few bad apples ruin the bunch !! Keep at it and never give up , it took me a year to get this far and I started with 0 ! I never even blogged before ! Im trying to ignore the spammers , but some days there's more then usual and it drives me crazy !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

great , thank you for sharing , Upvoted & Followed

awesome ! Thanks a bunch !! Will check out your page !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

So, I'm Steemit newbie (convinced by a friend despite my deep reservations). However, part of my fears have just been confirmed by this post. Not sure I have the patience to stick it out but we'll see. Totally agree with @sgnsteems, there should be an etiquette guide.

welcome to steemit ! Just don't spam peoples posts giving them links all the time in their comments that have nothing even to do with their post , or beg all the time for up votes and resteems ! LOL so many new people per day do this to me , they assume because I have been here a long time my up votes worth a lot ! LOL! When in fact its not because I had to power down a lot of money so I have hardly any steem power now !! So even a 100% up vote assuming I have 100% voting power is only worth maybe 9 cents !! So spamming and begging is getting them no where ! Just have fun and blog !! Don't plagerize and in time once you build up a following you will eventually get more up votes and make more money ! It took me a year of full time blogging !!! Rome wasn't built in a day, this is not a get rich quick venture !! Relax and the money and followers will come in time ! Good luck !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘βœŒπŸ‘ŒπŸ’™

So difficult to catch up on the feeds already and we still have to deal with this spamming comments and spamming link drops in the chat. I fear going chat to promo now because it's like telling people you are are and available for more spamming

I totally agree my friend ! Maybe a whale will come along and stomp them down to zero !! Something needs to be done soon , its getting worse everyday , the bot spam is driving me crazy doing the dirty work for them , on top of everything else ! Thanks for replying ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Check out my latest post. CSI report on last 24 hours.

will do thanks!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Sad but true @karenmckersie, preach it!

You know it my friend !!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

πŸ˜‚ I feel ya

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Awesome thanks for the boost !πŸš€πŸš€πŸš€

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awesome thanks !πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

I first thought this page is spam free as I picture is as the place for someone who wants to share their genuine ideas. Thanks anyway for sharing this. It makes me more determine to create a good posts.

thanks for your kind reply ! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Why do accounts have to spam anyway....is it pure greed. Is it to (hopefully) boost eyes on their posts...

Take note that doesn't work most of Steemit hates it and will end up hating those doing it. Spamming = no upvotes, no follows, no resteems, very soon no reputation either.
upvote & resteem

Upvoted via steemchat from Emma

Thanks ! Me too LOL! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ˜‚