Hey, if your reading this I'm not a whale yet, but I will be. As a result I don't have the necessary horsepower to act in a way that is beneficial to the STEEMIT community in some instances. Regardless I will act as though I am a respectable whale with a vested interest in the overall health and well being of this little community. I will act in such a way as to elevate other STEEMIANS, established or not and will take particular interest in new authors entering the community. New authors that are legitimately looking to establish a following here whilst creating new and engaging original content that will be toward the betterment of us all.

Now that I have said that, like any omnipotent being, you must occasionally bitch slap specific members of the congregation for the betterment of the larger group. Star Trek "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"
If is for this reason that I have taken an interest in this particular STEEMIAN @labony; a congregate member in need of the proverbial slap upside the head, or excommunication from the Church of STEEMIT and banishment to the wastelands.

Why?

Well his particular type of behavior is to the detriment of us all. If you take a second to look at his blog you will notice that he has posted no less the 40 times into the introduceyourself section, in fact he uses the same five tags for the most part..

introduceyourself

photography

community

foodphotography

worldofphotography

Two of which ( introduceyourself, photography) are very competitive and a great starting place for legitimate new comers looking to get noticed.

He continues to spam these tags with stolen YouTube videos (bird videos, How To, Drawing etc) and likewise generic web images of Indian celebrities that have nothing to do with the categories to begin with and as they are done every 15 or 20 minutes are nothing more than spam.

How does that hurt STEEMIT?

Well that is quite simple actually. There are a number of new users entering the site everyday, many of which have honest intentions of trying to make it here. The want to write excellent articles in the hopes of getting noticed, and they deserve a shot based on the effort they are willing to put in. But lets say one of these new and aspiring authors spends a few hours writing up an excellent introduction post, pictures, history, goals etc. It's interesting, deserves an upovote, a follow and could be the start of something great. They have high hopes for this article as they have put their heart and soul into its creation and laid themselves bare for other Steemians to measure their potential. So they post it and wait for community interaction, wait to get noticed and begin their STEEMIT journey.

But sadly, they don't get noticed and this deserving literary work quickly vanishes from the Introduceyourself category and into obscurity, having been pushed from the list and swallowed up by spam videos of birds, and generic photos stolen from the web, with no content, context or reason to even be there. So this new author gets discouraged and decides to give up as little is being done to combat the problem.

I wrote about this yesterday or the day before here: https://steemit.com/steemit/@pawsdog/steemians-need-to-downvote-more

I have to say in all honest that I was somewhat disappointed in the community, of the 100 views or so that article received only 4 or 5 STEEMIANS actually took an interest in the community as a whole and decided to downvote an article or two by @labony. I'm not sure why, perhaps because it cost STEEMPower, or perhaps they are just content to be flys on the wall afraid to act, stand out or be retaliated against. I'm not sure. I think it probably has much to do with the "herd mentality and peoples inherent desire to not rock the boat".

But here is the thing fellow STEEMIANS sometimes you have to rock the boat, kick rats into the water and let them drown, you have to be Rose at the end of TITANIC and push JACK into the Abyss. If we continually fail to act, eventually we won't have a boat, or the piece of timber we are floating upon, unable to support the dead weight will sink as well.

We need members that are helping us strap timbers to our raft so that we can all float to some tropical paradise together. Not members that are stealing the ropes and wood from our raft for their own.

While that was a weird analogy, I think you get the point. Please don't be afraid to stand out when it benefits us all. Help the community and the needs of the many even if it costs you a bit of SP, who cares it regenerates and by stomping out abuse such as this your SP will be worth much more in the long run as STEEMIT Grows... :)

For those that don't know how to downvote bad or Spam content