RE: What is spam & how it drains the reward pool little by little [ENG]-Also in Italian

[irikefee]

When the first time you open steemit you can read:
Steemit is a social media platform
In a social media platform you can post as much as you want. Why shall that be spam?
I can see a witness posting at the end of each post to vote for him as a witness. Isn't that a spam?

Comments

[patrice]

In a social media platform you can post as much as you want.
You also don't get paid for posting on normal social media platforms. Steemit is also a community. Unlike other social media platforms that have someone 'in charge' of making decisions on what is allowed to be posted on their site the community here decides what is and isn't acceptable. If we allowed spam and especially bot spam to go unchecked the community would soon be full of it. What do you think that would do to the value of STEEM/SBD. Who would want to invest in it?

I can see a witness posting at the end of each post to vote for him as a witness. Isn't that a spam?
Is their post original content, informative, and engaging? Then I don't consider it spam unless they are reposting over and over again.

[sebi99p]

He does have a point though. Sure, Steemit has no definite king, but this is mob rule, just as unwanted.

In my opinion, spam is just free speech, ignore it. It's shit speech, sure, but not illegal or in any way actually harmful. There are block buttons and all :)

I agree with flagging plagiarists, as that's stolen content, but spam?