The problem is that spammers find ways to earn a few cents for their poor quality post. If they didn't earn anything, then they would get sick of spamming.

I was very proud of our ex-curation team (IAT). We always voted according to the content of a post. Clubs were mandatory to get a vote of course, but we never over-voted something just because the author belonged to club100.

Yes, Steemit needs to review its guaranteed votes policy. Not because this policy is bad, but because it is the cause of fraud.

As I said, all projects that were created with the good intention of supporting as many quality authors are now misused by spammers. Probably, we didn't deserve this support from the team. :(

Unfortunately, Steemit does not have an effective mechanism for checking content for plagiarism, determining the quality of a post, or determining the presence of other fraudulent activities.

Catching fraudulent activities is so tiring. I had some other activities that needed my attention but I had to spend the whole weekend tracking a long list of abusers. I managed to wipe a lot of mess but still, there's a lot to do. I could have spent that time helping a newbie (two people were actually waiting for some guidelines by me). I really wish there was some automatic mechanism for user verification and for catching plagiarists.

In this case, quick changes are impossible. It is necessary for each of us to become a curator of quality content. Or we need some big investors to create manual curation accounts.

The latter seems a little difficult. But we can surely work on the former suggestion. (: