The ones that get me are the ones that say "hey great post! amazing.. so talented blah blah.. check out my post here is the link please upvote/resteem" yet they have not upvoted/resteemed or even read my post. I think that's just rude, or am I being petty?
Also, that was an accidental post?? I thought you were just leaving it to my imagination! The ultimate tease. oops! ;)
I face the same issues
annoying isn't it?
Very
Well, if that is being petty then let us be petty together!
sounds like a plan! :)
Yes. Even worse, they do not upvote your post but upvote their own comment to your post. Ran across this just today. In fact I found a pair of accounts where one was randomly commenting on other posts, upvoting their own comment, then their "friend" account was voting only their comment using delegated SP no less. No value in the comments or the posts; they are simply gaming the system to take author and curation rewards...
yeah that is pretty low. I saw one extreme case from about a year ago where a guy would post one word comments, like 20 of them, and make $7 from each comment from about 2000 upvotes from bot/fake accounts upvoting each of his comments. it was insane. The person got flagged into negative rep though
Not being petty at all, Steemit should have like a instant delete for any comment that begs for upvotes like a knob. 90% of what I get on my posts is just upvote and follow which bugs me cos I like writing decent responses to people who have invested time to write a decent comment on my blog article. I enjoy reading interesting content and practicing my typing with a more lengthy response than what most people write. When I tried starting on Youtube it was all about "Oh yeah great video blah blah... now LIKE, COMMENT and SUB me!!!!" which completely turned me off the whole platform. I thought Steemit was meant to be more than than but I guess that comes with time as followers grow yeah?
Well for people like that they will either learn that such strategies don't work on here or they fail and end up quitting. sometimes I just ignore them, sometime i fag them.. mostly i will ignore them because i hate flagging.
I think it will get better in time. What amazes me is how many people come on here and plagiarise so blatantly, and then seem genuinely perplexed when people say its a bad thing. but then these are the people that do the same on facebook and instagram and never get punished for it so they think its ok. im really glad this platform takes it so seriously.