A very Personal favor I have to ask from my fellow steemians. Please Read and Resteem

I joined steemit 4 months ago. At first I didn't make any posts. I was more like getting a feel of the community.  Then I started making my own posts few times a week. I made sure they contain some value to the community and that a large portion of the post is original content and quoted when I was copy pasting.

 Steemit is a community where rewards are split according to the contributions. It's not all fair. You could work hard and only get few cents because all your 30 something upvotes were minnows and another someone can earn few dollars because of 1 whale. But that's not the point. The community is the point. At least that's how I thought of the whole matter.

 Steemit has the single greatest large online community on the face of Earth. I've seen some great communities but they were all tiny. Some people claim that steemit is better than what FB was at the height of its quality. I'm not surprised. Providing quality content sometimes going as long as to make multiple 200+ word comments a day I've gained about 60 followers during the last months. I got my first 172 by mostly just commenting on other people's posts while earning few cents.

But then I started seeing a terrible trend. A trend that attacks the very foundation of steemit. I'm not talking about the tech. I'm talking about the quality of the content. I'm seeing a considerable influx of people on steemit who plagiarize content (according to @cheetah) or simply make low quality posts. In most cases the language used in post and the language used in comments are heavens apart. They beg for upvotes and comment spam all over steemit. 

The worst part it birds of a feather flock together. They almost grow into a Mafia commenting and upvoting and following each other. They also increase their reputation through making whats colloquially known as "Shit Posts".

This is the single largest threat to steemit. Blockchain will stay. Comments and posts will survive. Tech will only improve. But quality sin't easy to build or fix when damaged. Ask yourself why you are on steemit. You may invest a lot of money on STEEM. But If you are active, you must love this platform. I know for sure that steemit is my favorite place on the internet.

Most of these spammers have joined on November and have South Asian origins which is home to quarter of the global population.  I love steemit because it's a place for intelligent discussion and a place to find really amazing valuable people even when I pick a heated argument with them. Then these suckers come and ruin the platform. 

 Everything you post on steemit is stored forever on the blockchain. Ask yourself does your comments need to be stored forever and how will they contribute to the community and the world if stored in such a way.Everybody makes tiny posts of few words. But they are few and far between. Your comment section has nothing constructive about it. It's just wasting the resources of steemit. 

I've lived in the South Asian region for a long time. I've met the kind of people who make these posts. They are not something you want on steemit. They are just spamming the network all for few cents and they'll dump the system when it's in ruin. These people only want to game the system. It's really scary. It can and will bring ruin to steemit from within.

Thank you for reading this far. I'm a minnow with tiny bit of SP. For today alone I've had my voting power depleted multiple times because steemit is full of spam and I'm not willing to sit idly. One spammer posts 10+ or even about 20 spam per hour. Yes, PER HOUR!!!

I didn't join steemit to police spam and I want to use my votes to upvote the content I like. I'm sure you are thinking the same. But if we don't do anything, this will only spread. I've seen multiple serial spammers with reputation at high 40s. Is that fair. I know how I reached that kind of reputation and I say it's nowhere close to fair. Not even the slightest.

I don't ask for your upvote. I don't ask you to put your valuable time on getting rid of spammers by depleting your voting power. But you are bound to come across these spammers and they generally follow and comment on each other. One look at comment section and you know who's who. Just once a week flag one bloodsucker. That's all I'm asking. Steemit is an amazing place we love. We shouldn't let it get ruined because some random leeches want few quick bucks.

https://steemit.com/@rabbi18/comments

https://steemit.com/@amanullafarhan/comments

https://steemit.com/@johnyy/comments

https://steemit.com/@buti95/comments

https://steemit.com/@liton34/comments

https://steemit.com/@trendingtube/comments

Above is a list of comment sections I've stumbled upon for today alone. I've tried to flag as much spam as possible. But I don't feel like I'm making enough of a dent. And this is just the easy to notice copy/paste spamming. I've seen some posting guides on using pirated software and cringe worthy advises on picking up girls and self-help. Steemit is about intelligent discussions. Piracy or voodoo self-help life advise and random memes posted 10 times a day isn't the steemit I came for.

Several people have helped me fight the good fight and I thank you all. Your support and ammo has been helpful. I know I'm not alone and I know steemit is only beginning. 

I only ask my fellow steemians to do 2 things. Understand that the low quality people is the single greatest threat to steemit and spread awareness. And second: Just flag one spammer a week. I'm not asking because of some altruistic high ground. It's a selfish request to see my favorite place on internet in it's best shape.