For a few weeks I am watching over the introduceyourself tag even in the new section to find good posts and welcome new people to the platform. Those of you who are following me may now already this thing from my post A day on the New section - Introduceyourself or some other of you have interacted for the first time with me right in your introduceyourself post. You may very well know that there is a lot of spam for the newcomers of the platform who decidr to write their first introducing post. Those of you who have written that post already know my opinion about spamming newcomers which is a horrible thing to do.
These days I have found @steem-network
which I am pretty sure that is a spam bot. This so called steem team is just spamming newcomers in the introduceyourself section just to gain followers and upvotes from them. There was already one post of theirs took down by @steemcleaners and I had already used a lot of my Voting Power to flag their comments.
I tried to talk to them, I left them comments like the following:
I have written the same comment as a reply to one of your spam comments, but I know you will not see it so I am writing it again right here:
I find this to be a huge spam. People can not even chose to see your comment or not, you are not upvoting the posts or not bringing anything good to the posts besides advertising your account in order to gain profits. Good luck with that!
I am upvoting this comment for visibility, I find it important for people to see it. Think about what would happen if everybody will do the same thing as you do right now.
but I got no reply from them.
If you have a little more Voting Power which you don't use right now, I am asking you to do a nice thing for the community and give them a kimd flag. Also, if you want to support this action, you can resteem this post. Thank you!
Enjoy the vote and reward!
Thank you so much! You got a funny name :))
I saw your comment on the original post and I didn't fall for this spam only thanks to you.
For a newcommer the post actually looks kinda legit I must say.
Thanks again.
Btw, I have Resteemed
Hey, thank you for the help! They are not going to make visible comment for long, because their repputation is going to decrease under zero soon, then their comments will be hidden :)
I don’t have much voting power but I am reseeming your post! Happy New Year 🎆🎊!
Thank you so much, I hope that things are getting better here :)
This is nice that you are paying such attention to the tag and comments on the posts. If nobody does, then someone has to. ;)
I am not sure tho if this is something that can be stopped. I have seen this kind of behaviour on all of the platforms and it is caused by the simplest "how to get followers" posts. Some just read that they should comment a lot on posts and that's why they start to spam.
Only thing here to hope is that people see it throught and don't fall for these comments. I bet in the end they wont get as many followers anyway, because they don't post good content and even if someone has followed them, they are probably gonna unfollow them in the future.
Well, in their case, they were the only users by now who ignored both mywarnings and my flags. But right now steemcleaners and swissclive gave a bit of help, taking them to only 2 reputation. If they will reach 0 reputation, then their posts will be hidden by default and the newcomers willnot see their comments anymore, which I think will happen pretty soon. I am glad to find people who appreciate my efforts, you must know that! It would be horrible to imagine what would happen if there would be 10 spammers like this one.
Yeah. Well, try to stay alive in this horde of spammers. I believe in you!
Thank you so much, this is a confidence boost for me :))