The rate of spam and spammers have increased very recently, maybe due to changes brought about by hardfork 19. People are now so desperate that they spam you in the face the way they like. Unfortunately, when you tell these folks to take their spam out of your page, they pretend like they don't understand. When you flag their spam comments, they unleash a flag war on you. I would like to distinguish two types of spam here.

Solicited Spam

I will explain solicited spam as the type of spam that the author called for. A concrete example would be one who subscribed to different services to help boost payout. We know the names of these services.

Unsolicited Spam

This is the kind of spam that the author never called for. Imagine after having spent hours to write you consider a good post, hit the post button and waiting for some engaging comments, the next thing you see on your blog would  be a link to their blog or some ''services'' that they are advertising. Did I tell them that I need their services? Hell no!

My Unpleasant Experience With Unsolicited Spam                                  

There is a specific group in @steemcleaners that now take care of spams specifically. I didn't know about this group until I had issues with spam comment on @redfishpillar, when @yoenelmundo triggered a flag war on the post I created in that account. That happened 4 days ago (14th of August, 2017). Morover, I had to cry out with this post when after having reported the matter to Witness @drakos (the guy with the big sword. Lol!) in @steemcleaners, I didn't really get the help I needed. Many thanks to @enjar who first commented on the post. Those invaluable comments she left helped me a lot to know the next line of action to take. @turpsy came in later, followed by @patrice and @cryptonfused to help out with their comments. A little piece of advise here. If you know that you don't have any meaningful comment to add to your neighbor's blog post. Please, pass by and pretend like you never saw that post. That act is what we call ''waka pass'' in Nigeria. I would not fail to thank @ausbitbank, @dragonslayer109, @oluwatobiloba, @steem-lagos @patrice etc. for their upvotes on that post. Some members of the Nigeria curation team  ( @ehiboss, @gbenga ) also helped out. I am grateful you all.  

Two days later, this same @yoenelmundo spammed @yvonneyoung's blog in the comments section of this post. Guess what happened to her? Witness @pfunk came around and flagged her spam comment with 100% negatively weighted vote. 

I was happy today that karma caught up with her and that witness @pfunk flagged her for spamming. Her reputation reduced drastically to 14. This was the comment I left for @pfunk 

Spaminator and Sadkitten To Our Rescue

Some good willed Steemians, who are working to reduce the spate of spams in steemit and ensure a clean steemit blogging environment, created @sadkitten, the kitten which usually feeds @spaminator with information about steemit spams. 

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If you have any issues with spam, don't hesitate to report specifically to @patrice in @steemcleaners. The issue will be taken care of ASAP. Very recently too, @stellabelle, a wonderful Steemian and good friend, has declared #waronspam in steemit. She came to my help with @spaminator to take care of a spam comment on my blog

Call To Action

If you detest spam as much as I do and want to see a clean steemit blogging environment, look for @spaminator in @steemcleaners and report cases of spam there. See latest update of @spaminator. 

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Have you had bad experiences with spams and spammers? Please, share your experience and how you managed it. 

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