Alerting stuff, yeah!!
Many Steemians are natural spammers rushing around and posting quick and silly comments just to maybe get some cents from curation, don't read almost anything from post. Bots looks to be sometimes smarter than people in commenting.
Same is with upvoting. It's easier to upvote yourself then write a good article other will upvote. The harder way to reach your goal to get some value (Steem, SBD) here, is not popular on this platform at all.
I take the harder way and still collect some value. I did not power up from other sources and I'm currently at around $170 USD value of my account and I my thankful to some Steemians @mys, @knircky and others to see value in my work and support me.
I also declare in blog Upvote Myself no More that I will never ever upvote myself and start campaign For Better Steemit #1, #2 which have at this moment 0% support but I think that must be someone to speak about nobility here also.