I'm right there with you @joseph... with very few exceptions.

Yesterday, I even found myself flagging a few pieces of blatant "copy-pasta" masquerading as "real" comments... visiting the poster's page revealing that the same 4-sentence comment had been plopped on about 300 posts.

I also consider myself really tolerant... but here's the thing-- and this bears saying-- "I know this music." This kind of "blah-comment-soup" can destroy a user content site... and it WILL, unless active steps are taken to render it effectively worthless. That means those of us who actually care about content and care about the long-term well-being of Steemit need to not just turn our heads the other way... we need to be active participants; at the very least helping SteemCleaners & co. tag and flag obvious abuse of the system... because GUESS WHAT? If we don't do this, we won't have a system, 12 months from now.

Sure, there'll still be a Steemit, but we'll be sitting here in a cesspool of fluff, with $0.02 Steem because there isn't "something here" anymore, that anyone in their right mind will INVEST in.

I'm not saying we are here to be the "thought police" because this is intended to be a censorship free "alternative" social platform... but here's the analogy I like to use: Think of Steemit as a ship we're ALL sailing on. And now some of the passengers are thinking that "drilling holes in the hull" is the way they want to express their free speech. Are we all supposed to just "look the other way" in order for them to have their "censorhsip free" experience... so we can proudly ALL go down with the ship... in service of freedom? "The all drowned, but they were FREE!!" sorry, but from where I'm sitting, that's the same level of spiritual idiocy that drives the New Age industry...

/end rant... and sorry about having a sub-rant on your rant.

Postscript: Sometimes it IS OK to simply leave a "really beautiful photos!" on a photo essay. I'm 100% OK with that. What I am not OK with is repeatedly copied "Great Post! This adds so much value! I have upvoted and followed You! Please visit my latest post, it is really good! Now you should upvote and follow me so we can all Steemit together" copied on 300 posts a day by someone who's following 5000 people after four days and endlessly upvotes all their own spammy comments. Sorry, NOT OK!