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RE: New Personal Policy: Flagging all zero-value-add vote/follow begging comments.

in #steemit7 years ago

For those opposed to flagging, obviously use your judgement.

I have flagged bots that post immediately after you put up your post and they leave the f4f message. I then saw other new people upvote the same comment made on that new persons post. They do it because it works enough.

I also came across a post that appeared to be spam, but my gut made me check it out. Turned out to be a young man from Africa, English second language, so I educated him.

He thanked me, and when he'd made his first post asked me to look at it, of course he wanted a upvote and comment. Anyway I looked, gave a welcome comment and an upvote. Then he came back and thanked me for my comment, but asked me again for an upvote. I told him I already did and to stop harassing me. He did, but I think he thought my upvote would actually be worth something, lol.

Anyway, point is, use your judgement, we don't need the spam.

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ytes always discern use DISCERNMNT! u always gotta giv benfit of doubt, check the potential spammr, mak sure thyre not a bot, if theya re a bot flag, if they are a real person just help them out
I learned that the actual REASON these people do that whole follow for follow thing is they LEARN that behavior from interacting with bots their whole lives online, so many bots and spam out there asking for follow for follow that peopel start icking up the behaviour! very sad actually! Peopel end up believing thats just normal behaviour

anyway we can help the peopel in developing nations like I have been, encourage autnegtic ghenune posting of thir home town, ven if they arenot proud of it, tell em it will look exoctic and adventurous to us and we WILl enjoy seeing images of other countries! its a given! anyway good comment! i am startingto rach critical typo mass as my back hurets d im ben huncing ovr on my bed and about to fall asleep man lmaximum typo lvels reach must hit sub,it