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in steemit-abuse •  8 years ago 

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OK, if you can't see it here, how about this picture?

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If you still can't see it, they made an introductory post and a my firts post after their post about having 400 followers.

I'm assuming the continued misspelling of firts is to avoid detection by bots?

I have reported this to @steemcleaners on Steemit Chat under the #steemcleaners-linkdrop channel.

I doubt if this is actually a 14 year old kid, but if it is, they're well on their way to a life of spamming & scamming.

I flagged the latest post with literally no effect.

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They're making a little bit with each post & when you post 9 introducemyself posts a day it starts to add up.

Then toss in the occasional "I need money for food" post and you've got yourself a nice little racket.

And the bot gets you after using that tag three times.
Not sure what the bot getting you does, other than a polite message for them to use another tag.

According to SteemData, you have now used #introduceyourself 17 times.

Goodbot gave up at 17 times

Wow!

I flagged them!
Those posts are irritating, and hopefully they will stop it.

I really don't wish them any harm but allowing that kind of behavior to just continue without any repercussions just opens the door for more and more. If someone can show me an example of someone getting away with something and then saying, "Whew, I learned my lesson there. That's probably the only thing I'll ever get away with so I'll stop now while I'm ahead." I'll reconsider my attitude towards it.

I can't show you what happens to me when I ride motorcycles, but that pretty much encapsulates my experience with dirt bikes.

Every time I get on one, I end up saying almost that exact thing to myself as I am inspecting all my limbs and searching for the motorcycle.

Sad to see but thankfully this kind of account doesn't stay around for long

I wonder why they leave?

is this so that they can make more money? jesus like how much can they actually make? you'd make more and faster by investing in ETH in 1 week. spammers suck.

I think this is rather genuine idiocy at play.

If it had only happened once or nine times, I may tend to agree, but if you look at the posts, it's an ongoing thing for a while.

They appear to have started out like anyone else, there are some actual posts that appear to be original content. I won't even fault them for posting the same stories in both English and Spanish.

But last month they became a 15 year old kid born in the US, 3 weeks ago the "introductory posts" started about a 14 year old in Argentina and I count no less than 25 "first" or "introductory" posts since then.

Oh...it gets better. Check this out in his replies.
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I found 15 instances

I know they are cracking down on kid accounts but I think 13 and younger is the cutoff. If they are an adult they are smart for saying they are 14 so they don't get the account shut down. If only people would put as much effort into creating good content as they do spamming and cheating for pennies. Shame people do stuff like this.

I'm not sure it's a kid.

Good job.

It wouldn't have been as easy to spot if they hadn't used the same picture for 3 weeks straight.

I need a "firts" type of post. I want another boob job maybe this will help. lol I kid

Somehow, a whole bunch of those "firts" posts have been flagged.

If you really wanted an unnecessary (just my opinion) boob job, you'd probably get a much better response just saying that's what you want it for. ;-)

It's ok I already paid for mine haha I came a couple years too late for a "firts" post.