Well said, I've compared allowing scammers to slip through the cracks to get Steem Power to allowing barnacles to accumulate on the Steem ship. In this analogy though, the barnacles can't be scraped off of Steem!
Upvotes should not be thrown everywhere especially if you have a lot of Steem Power.
In the slack chat, there is a channel #steemitabuse for trying to deal with any scam/spam/etc abusive posts. You are welcome to join and help out!
Preach it brother pfunk! We shall convert the infidels one by one or they will be banished by the almighty downvote bots once and for all!
-lulz
That's the spirit!
As pfunk mentioned, come join the daily crusade in #steemitabuse on Slack! It's been a long hard fight and we need more willing to do this dastardly deed on a daily basis.
Keep it up @chhaylin @tuck-fheman @pfunk This community is being kept great by its own members and I am so proud to be a part of it!
I have only stumbled across a few questionable posts and read the comments before determining how to proceed. I am hesitant about the power of newbies downvoting because @groovy posted material that turned out to be true. Steemians seemed on edge after the heroin story was plagiarized and as the influx and evolution of material changes. @halo was also facing problems due to her similarities to many a whisker chinned aquatic critter. She didn't post content I wanted to upvote anyways but I would be wary of the double edge voting sword's power.
Truly,
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I have had posts downvoted because members have mistakenly believed them to be spam. It still lists a downvote from @fyrstikken on my first vote, which was quite the bummer because I tried my best to create an intriguing article based on my own experiences and the local news coverage of a Black Lives Matter event in my town. I also have a downvote from a @dho that has only one reply and no blog entries. The up/downvote is a tool that should be wielded with care.