'Member When Steemit Wasn't Filled With Spammers?

I don't know about you, but do you 'member when steemit first started and was somewhat new, and there weren't so many spammers?

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Do you 'member?

Most of the comments I get on my posts are pretty much spam. Whether it is from a spam bot, or some dude from nigeria, i'm always getting spam. And its always someone from another country or an annoying bot. We really need a new system to fight spam.

And to be honest, we have been getting more and more bots and spam on steemit now more than ever. I understand steemit is still in beta, but we really need to figure out a way to weed out all of these bots and spammers. Because, the majority of new users are spammers or bots. Which can be an extreme turn off for many people.

What sucks is when you spend an hour writing an article, and all you get is someone asking you to follow and upvote them or somebody commenting a copy and pasted line onto your comment section without consideration. You work hard, and all you get is spam for the most part, which is extremely annoying.

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My proposal

Steemit is a diamond in the rough, and right now it's in a beta currently, and it is not completely refined. But until then, I think we need to charge for people to join steemit or join by invite only. This will weed out a lot of those spammers joining in massive amounts. This is a good solution until steemit is in it's final phase and is spammer and scammer resistant.
(hopefully)... Lets hope steemit makes a leap for improvement soon...

Too many people on here, bro.

Now as if we don't have enough new people already that are spamming peoples posts asking for upvotes and follows, we now have bots that do exactly the same except in a larger scale.

On steemit, we have recently reached over 300,000 users (which is not a good thing), and most of them are bots. Some bots are good and don't spam like the @cheetah bot or bots like that. And the majority of these bots constantly spam peoples posts asking for upvotes and follows etc.

The amount of spam on here is unbelievable... and is pretty annoying. just saying....

And I think if we want steemit to excel as a platform, we need to get rid of these bots...Not only are the bots taking away from the rewards pool, but they are annoying people with their spammy comments. We need more legit users on this platform, meaning less of the spammy bots and people who are posting genuine content.

As of now, steemit is flooded. Steemit is at that point to which if you follow even 50 people you like, you can't even catch up with their posts unless you specifically go to their post. There is a rapid amount of spam posting on steemit and a rapid amount of people joining at the same time. Which in my eyes, is not good at all.