Every day we can read the stats that amount of Steemit users is growing, amount of posts and comments is growing but no one cares about the quality.
These questions become actual last days, and it's great that there are people who ask them. If we want to move forward, add value to our platform and currency, if we want to overtake and surpass Reddit or Facebook by popularity, such issues should be discussed, not ignored.
And it would be interesting to see the analysis on the actual amount of plagiarism (copy / paste) and the reaction of Steemcleaners and Cheetahs on it. (Yes, I know, it's technically impossible). For some reason, it seems to me that the % of downvotes would be about the same, 1.5-2%. Because when you look at all our new posts and you see that about 1/3 of them are copy / paste or post / farm, and then you read the report of Steemcleaners, where there are about 200 links and only 5-10% of them received flags, you see a clear discrepancy between the data and reality.
You can see that many accounts are created specially for a post/comment farming. They milk Busy, Dmania and Minnowsupport with a copy / pasted images and articles. Unfortunately, we have high level of tolerance, and the creation and identification of quality content, as it is written in the Steem White Paper, has long ceased to be the goal of our community.
Thanks for taking the time to write this comment @erikaflynn
I think some do care, but clearly others don't.
@steemcleaners and the other anti-spam accounts have a very tough job, they have been overwhelmed for the past two months. I was told you can send accounts to @steemcleaners and receive a bounty for reporting them, I guess we should all try to do this more.
Steem inc. has recently delegated to @steemcleaners and @spaminator and so you can see they are aware of the issue - hopefully we can see an improvement in future.