While it may not be a scam in your opinion, it could be considered spam. Spam is not appreciated by the community and could be flagged or may result in action from the cheetah bot..
Some things that can be considered spam:
- Banner ads of any kind
- Referral links/codes
- Repeating the same post
- Links to known scams, phishing sites, and other dangerous links
That's silly. They are referral links to faucets that get people small amounts of free cryptocurrency. I could see if I was directing people to some sort of ponzi scheme or something that took money from them, but it's the exact opposite. This is why in one of my other post I stated that bots on steemit are killing it. It's no longer about content it's about how many bots do you have coming and up voting your post which is quite silly.