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Yes it is best for the entire community and oneself to adhere to the rules as much as possible. This will give credibility to the network rather than if people try to game the system by having multiple steem accounts or plagiarizing or using bots in a manner against the good will and spirit of the Steemit network and the crypto community in general.
I believe that SMT tokens that are coming soon will help address some of these issues.