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RE: Three points to a healthy Steem
I used to go through the new feed and curate but stopped because it too long sorting through the shit and plag that no one was doing anything about. People forget that there were accounts posting hundreds of posts a day until the last HF and RCs were introduced but then, the people who complained about RCs didn't actually spend time looking deeply at the platform.
I haven't been flagged too much other than during the whale experiment in 2017 and people who I cought plagiarising. There have been some odd ones where I bring up topics or ideas some people don't support but, that is to be expected imo.
I remember that time well m8. I was very active with curie trying to make top curator for 6 months to possibly become a reviewer. That was my aim anyway. But the level of work involved in plowing through all the scammers, shit posters and just outright hundreds of new plagiarists joining the platform daily was overwhelming. Pretty much 80-90% of the new and introducemyself tags were scammers. I kind of got an eye for spotting them in the end (and used to keep lists) but as the whole drive of curie is to find those new authors of quality and watch them to make sure they get encouraged with decent rewards it was a difficult job. In the run up to 20000 BTC it was seriously hard work sifting through the muck to find the gems.
I've experienced this too. I used to work in promo-mentors discord and during that 2017 bull run-up I was running a poetry/fiction class that offered vote incentives from the promo-mentors account, and people knew I was a curie curator as well. The community had a lot of African and Philippine members so it was quite an intense workshop I ran helping second language English writers up their game in those disciplines. Anyway, I had this one fella came in all the time. Always with extremely accomplished, well crafted poetry which wouldn't look out of place in a literary anthology. He was always super combative toward me when I offered critique as well, even though my criticisms were few and far between. He asked me for a delegation one day even though I had about 800 SP at the time and something in my head just clicked about him. So I went really deep dive checking all his poems he'd previously brought to the workshop. I had checked two of them previously but had found no evidence of plagiarism. Anyway, after checking around 8 of them I find that one of them is from a very decent African poet and I confronted him over it. He went nuts and tried to rally half the Africans in the community against me until one of them who specialized in writing for steem-stem looks at his poems and called him out. Apparently, most of his poems were from a poet who was famous for performance poetry, who didn't have many of his poems published to paper as standard because he followed an oral tradition. It was one of the most elaborate plagiarism cons I've seen on steem. He flagged me once or twice after that but his name was pretty much mud by that point and after trying to get a rise out of me on discord he left.
I remember at least 2-3 people had to be kicked every week from promo-mentors during that period either for plagiarism or really aggressive vote begging. It was crazy.