This is definitely an issue that needs more awareness and needs to be addressed ASAP. As I have mentioned in another thread, I believe that #introduceyourself posts should be exempt from receiving rewards. While it's nice to see the faces of people of the platform, it's the quickest money grabber there is on Steem, it's the most abused, and where I believe most of the fraud is happening. Add on to that that #introduceyourself post add no valuable content. People are getting paid to explain their either horrible circumstances or their awesome life.

Personally, I bet most of the female posts are fake. I've never seen a platform built on such nerdy technology (I mean this in a good way) attract this many good looking women. I'm willing to bet many of the posts are models paid to send a picture with "Steemit" with the date and time.

The astronaut post was upvoted really quickly earlier today before a commenters called the image out for being photoshopped. I mean, it was obviously too good to be true, especially because it as a very high caliber individual. Imagine how easy it is to act as someone else with the millions of images available on the internet. A little bit of photoshop and creative writing and you can score big on here. It's pretty sad, honestly.

Thanks for your post and bringing more light to the issue. We need to get moving fast as we can on this. I appreciate the effort you put in to get your bots working as well. Any help is good for the platform's growth.