There are a few cleaning bots that are looking for this very thing. I imagine as Steemit continues to grow, there will be even more bots and tighter control over content. While this trend may be disturbing, it won't be the end to your frustration here on Steemit! Haha.
Soon you will become privy to last minute voting tricks, Whales putting out just garbage and upvoting their own posts and cashing out, people posting movie trailers and making a ton, the list is pretty much endless. So long as there exists a way to make a quick buck, people will take advantage of it.
My way of combating it is to try to focus as much as possible on those with undervalued content. I want my time on Steemit to be as meaningful as possible, and I feel like it's the best use of it. If you see flagrant abuse of Steemit however you can call a few of the cleaning bots to the post in question, or you can flag it as well.
Hope you are enjoying the better, higher quality parts of Steemit at least! 46 is a great start for having only been here a week! :)
I really appreciate the response @bethwheatcraft . The whole reason I am so pro-Steemit is that the other social media sites turned into garbage. There is no intellectual communication anymore. There is no substance anymore. It is like everything has been "dumbed" down.
So much "information" yet zero knowledge. I really don't want this to go down same path.
I totally get it! I write about this all the time! I don't think this will happen here though, even with some of the posts getting paid stupid amounts for being terrible. Too many people are invested and want this to work, and want this to grow as an intellectual community! As I said, flag posts that you see are abusing the system, but more importantly, really support those that are putting out good content. If we use all of our energy policing the shit posts, and the good posts are going unnoticed, then those authors will get discouraged and eventually leave. Whereas the people who are using the system will just keep popping up no matter how many times they have been warned/flagged.