Human greed can always be used to reinforce good behavior, but same can be said for bad behavior in the terms that we see it as. Take today for instance. I dealt with a spammer who was begging for upvoters. I informed the guy that is not how Steemit works. One other person noticed my comment as well, and reply to it reinforcing in what I was saying. He also upvote my comment to indicated to others that this is expected behavior when we see spam we should call it out, and try and resolve it. The spammer in term swore at us in another langue and that was all I needed to know about him. He got my downvote. The spammer was rather an anger about it. I took a look at his wallet. He withdraws every liquid sbd he can get his hands on. He gets very short tempered with people who call him out, and all he has to do is anger one whale enough to be put into a pit of dispersing of a bad rep. This guy will self-destruct in time and be done with Steemit because no one will be I willing to help him expect other greedy people.
I try and always help out when I can. Even if someone has been here longer than me or not and they might not welcome it. Even in last 24 hours spent a few hours either helping or trying to contribute to helping minnows out. If the spammer would have been nicer; not only would I not have downvoted him, but I would be happy to help. Instead, he chooses greed and anger so all he gets in return are a few cents here or there from people who do not understand his disingenuine.
While some days I really wish there was more tools for dealing with comment spammers, beggers, and others alike. I also know over time they just won’t make it. Yes they will extract asome amount SBD and even STEEM out of the system. The only issue I can see in regards to this is those who create robots that spam and make money. Those sadly are here to stay. More needs to be done.
When these people get really greedy the community comes out and downvotes them into the ground. I found a guy the other week. Was making up to 7$ per spam comment. Took me hours to find people to downvote him but it happened. Three people downvote him to the point he lost money because he was buying his spam comments upvotes.
At the end of the day as long as we focus on building and working with those who want to see Steemit be successful 10 to 20 years and even beyond we have a fighting chance. The scammers and those who want to do us harm I hope for most part are just lone sheep who won’t get many friends. With our influence gained over time we help control witness ranking, the reward pool, and how others wish to interact with us.
At least that’s my thoughts at 3am! I hope it’s somehow understandable lol.