They are smaller, but support each other and the encouragement we get/give is helpful. I just discovered the OCD group about an hour ago and absolutely love their letter updates. I'm finding really cool stuff on here. I'm not really motivated by triple digit SBD action for posts. Upvotes and Reputation Score help me gauge whether anyone is reading what I post. It's the forest for the trees model, I guess.Thank you for the wisdom. I already setup on Discord and joined a local group, called #SoCalSteemit
I have a lot to share, but I also have even more to learn and want to help curtail the spammer/plagiarist/photo rippers, to make room on the blockchain for the good quality content I crave. Maybe that's a selfish goal, but this platform is DOA if the spam activity is allowed to continue. It takes the fun out of the entire experience for me.
thank you.
Spammers only bugged me occasionally and when I let myself be dragged into that discussion. I dealt with them when I encountered them through my own blogging or stumbled over one. Other than that I think its time and energy eating to fight them. They will be always there and everyone can handle that within his own activities. Like a virus. If one gets you, you take care of yourself by taking medicine or let the feaver kill it. Trending page is a really bad role model for all newcomers. I never go there and totally ignore it. The war is ridiculous in my eyes.
Mostly, humor helps and laughing the spammer to death:)) - not easy sometimes.
For plagiarism here in the steemit realm my very own dealing is: whenever someone wants to copy my message: feel free to do that. Actually, I take it as a compliment. ;-) LOL