Draining the Reward Pool - Even SPAM Comments Are Now Getting Huge Upvotes!

Many users might think lately that Steemit isn't fair for one reason or the other. Some Whales are clearly abusing their Steem Power for no reason, just because they have enough SP to do what they want. We need ways to improve this or it will just keep getting out of control.

If this hasn't impacted you personally, you may be fine to stop reading now and move on. But you will realize how serious are these problem, once you face them. If the ideas weren't right, I wouldn't hold on to them.

Lets have a look at the first problem. The misuse of Selfupvote
These are two examples, but there are many others.

I dont have problems with selfupvote if used in the right way, because people have the right to decide, where to put their money. But to upvote spam comments or even many comments in the same day doesnt make any sense. Instead of draining the reward pool, the reward could be used to upvote newcomers or good posts.

When you look at the trending posts, you will find that 25% of the comments are spam comments. One or two of them might be Phishing links. There are many projects out there working against these types of abuses, but they are still out of control. Scammers and spammers have no problems making thousands of accounts on a daily basis and upvoting each other. Flagging brings down reputation scores when the flagger has a higher score than the one being flagged. Thats why Whales and accounts with higher SP are always responsible in protecting this platform and making it a better place.

The most Spammers are not willing to change their behavior, no matter what new information they get or experience they gain. Even by putting their accounts to 0 to show them how pointless their efforts are, they are still active and spamming. I dont understand if they at all realize what is happening to their accounts or they just dont care. With a little bit of effort and time, we can usually move past this one pretty quickly.

I wanted to raise some awareness about this and ask Users with high SP to save their voting strength to flag these accounts down to a zero reputation or warn them. If whales really care about the rewards pool and how it is distributed, they must look into this and find solutions before it is too late. We have to do everything in our powers to make things at least bit better. Get rid of fraud, plagiarism, hate speech and spam.

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