Recently, I've had the unique misfortune of having my posts 'hijacked' by a few unwanted spammers, these spammers usually write a few brief sentences unrelated to your topic, providing no 'value', with the intent of acquiring followers/steem money.

I wrote this first post before, and figured I would do a weekly post to keep this Spammers List up to date and to keep everyone in the loop and to continually add and remove spammers as the community sees fit.

I know that this is NOT what the Steemit community is about, and hence we typically flag these sorts of posts, reducing their value and the reputation of the bad poster. Recently, though I have seen a few spammers get away with this by prying on people's empathy, basically begging for followers/likes, which is, in my books, unacceptable! Nevertheless, I count a spammer as someone who repeats similar content, usually a plea, for likes and follows. Because the Steemit community is continually expanding, we have an increasing number of spammers who go undetected, and so this post is to create a list of known spammers of Steemit, such that their spam posts can be flagged appropriately BUT ALSO SO THEY CAN LEARN. See, Steem should be a fair and equitable community, people need to be given the chance to learn from their mistakes and as such we should only flag their spam.

Nevertheless, here are some Spammers that I have encountered (with proof), and I hope you guys will comment and tell me of any of the ones you have encountered such that I can edit this list to include them!

List of Known Spammers

• @akun2017
  

• @farhanali
  

• @stevearticlepro
  

Spam Probation (Have Recently Spammed within the last 2 weeks)

• @eddieelsewhere
  

Please be sure to flag some of the spam they've made, if you have noticed any spammers in your comments / other articles comments section that needs to be added, please reply with a comment and their username and I will check to see if they can make the list.

I just want to conclude that I have made this list because I truly love the Steem community a lot, and I really want to see it succeed, however I do not see it succeeding if we allow spam content through the cracks. If your name is on this list then take this as a warning to cut that s*** out, if you are on the probation list, don't worry, it will be off in a couple of weeks of good posting!

CHANGE LOG

(DD/MM/YYYY Format), NZ Time

2/07/2017, 2:52pm : Edited to include more spammers

9/07/2017 6:58pm : Added more spammers, removed @nickdavison from Probation (congratulations on reform! :D)