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RE: How to Comment on Steem Posts for Fun & Profit (the right & wrong way)
I think that sometimes the spamming is occurring because they are new and don't know any better. I like you're response to the obvious spamming, because it at least has the chance of accomplishing the goal of reducing the spam.
I don't understand why someone would join a community like this and then use a bot either, and they are missing out bigtime. Guess they wouldn't know that though. To me comments are a great place to learn new things and share the hard knocks of life.
You might be right - there are some people who could see other people doing it, so they think it's the normal way. That's why I try not to be super rude like "HEY SCREW YOU" but I do try and be firm about telling people to stop.
It's worth it - I've noticed a big improvement in my comments, these conversations are getting to be pretty cool. The botters and spammers won't win in the end!
No what will happen is that they will form their own little click within the steemit world. It is the fact that the choice to operate as a spammer will blind many for a long time to the value they are missing. The same happens in life with gossips and liars. It is only when the consequences hit home that they will decide to look for some other click within the community. That is actually why I suggested that everyone write a similar post. There is an old saying that "a ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure." Author Unknown.
In fact this has given me an idea for a project on this, but I am so new and for some reason can't log in to the Steemchat to share it. My idea is to write a post about it and have people post the link to there post explaining in there own words why they don't like the spam. If you get enough people to do this while linking within the post itself the ones they have seen we might just create a big enough net lol that will be several pounds of cure.
The idea is to create a huge net inside the steemit world that catches the new steemian and the old with not only why not, but why too stay out of those kinds of clicks. The only thing I don't like about it is that some people would think that encouraging people to post their link inside comments is an example of being a slick spammer. I just don't know if hosting spamming could be made in such a way that it host the spammer on their own petard. lol