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As of now, Steemit is in danger more than you know, and it seems that if we don't do something about it and take a tremendous step toward improvement, steemit could be screwed.

Spam is a growing problem.

Spam is a growing problem on steemit, more and more people are joining and are spamming people with mindless comments like "I like your post upvoted please upvote my post" stuff like that. The upvote for upvote, follow for follow, or resteem for resteem type of deal. It's not only just individual people doing it as well, but it is massive amounts of bots controlled by a bunch of people. I mean check out this excerpt from @sherlockholmes article about the 1700+ accounts that are raping the steemit pool.

The accusation:

"Randomly scanning the blockchain for suspicious activities, a chain of votes on a seemingly innocent spam comment caught my eye. 19 votes from accounts with random-syllable usernames on a days old comment on a month old post.

Someone's clearly spamming for profit. I really did not expect this to lead to such an extend as it did, though!"

Excerpt from @sherlockholme's article: https://steemit.com/steemit-police/@sherlockholmes/case-7-raping-the-reward-pool-with-1700-accounts-things-are-getting-serious

Findings!!

"Observing the activities over the past few days I was able to connect a huge network of more than 1700 accounts involved in this industrially scaled farming operation! And the number is still growing!

It will be impossible and boring to describe how I dug into this chronologically, so I shall describe the situation structurally:

There are hundreds and hundreds of accounts doing exactly what I had witnessed in my "Accusation" above. These accounts transfer their rewards over to a few hub-accounts, these accounts then function as an extraction point for the ill-gotten gains, transferring the accumulated money out of the platform."

Excerpt from @sherlockholme's article: https://steemit.com/steemit-police/@sherlockholmes/case-7-raping-the-reward-pool-with-1700-accounts-things-are-getting-serious

The Gateway of money laundering...

"@imenosblis; @ramoxingfruc; @unbuinibel; @malmbertdorla; @fawealmati; @simphifinking; @findtigeharg; @pidarlambnews

A look at their wallets will show the vast array of accounts sending in money, and it shows they have already successfully extracted 198 SBD.

That doesn't sound like much, but consider this has only been running for roughly 3 weeks, all the gains are only the SBD share of 2 weeks of farming, and with every vote, the SP behind this network grows, exponentially strengthening this operation!"

Excerpt from @sherlockholme's article: https://steemit.com/steemit-police/@sherlockholmes/case-7-raping-the-reward-pool-with-1700-accounts-things-are-getting-serious

So, I did my fair share of flagging...

As you can see, I flagged some of the points of extraction of the whole money laundering scheme that was listed above.

That is only one example of a time that I flagged one of these spammers, I did it a bunch. We need to clean up steemit. There are so many spammers on here and they need to be stopped, I mean god damn, 1700+ accounts and growing spam accounts? Steemit is really in danger.

All I can say is im thankful for the @sadkitten @spaminator bots that are flagging these people. I'm sure there are more bots helping out with this problem as well, and hopefully someone will maek more spam fighting bots.

What pisses me off is i'm working hard on steemit making posts and helping others, and the way I see steemit is a way to get me out of my life situation right now, which isn't very great. I don't want to go into details about that but I feel that steemit is the "light at the end of the tunnel" for me and my family. This is our chance at succeeding and having a better life, and I will not have it taken away by a bunch of spammers!

Better watch out, Spammers.