Steemit has seen an influx of new users lately. No doubt due to the increased price, and more recently HF19 that has increased rewards for smaller users.
Steemit is growing, great.
But growth comes with its negative side effects, unfortunately.
A recent annoying phenomenon is people, usually new users, commenting stuff like "Great post, awesome information, very cool read, you're the best person ever, now please upvote and follow me!"
The money aspect of Steemit is sure to attract people like this, and it's understandable, but I'm taking a stand against this. Not only will I not check out your profile, if I notice someone doing a lot of "advertisement" spamming, I may consider downvoting.
Every comment gives me a notification, and every pointless notification wastes my time, and wasting my time is the easiest way to annoy me. I'm the only one allowed to waste my time - and I do it so damn much, I don't need anyone's help.
When you spam, you just make yourself look like an idiot, and intelligent people - who are the ones whose support you want when growing your page - will look down on you, and the reputation of a moron is a hard one to shake off.
So, it's in your best interests to act more mature.
I'm also not interested to hear positive feedback on my writing from people who didn't read the posts. In fact, I'm more interested in negative feedback on my writing from people who read them. Constructive, negative feedback as a whole is something I think Steemit still kind of lacks. Though it's understandable since a lot of people can't really take criticism. I can, though, so no worries.
I have no interest in someone just blindly sucking up to me.
Also, the lying is so blatant; I kid you not I've had "This was a very 'informative post', check out my blog" on a chapter of my fictional story.
Not only are you a spammer, you're a liar, and why should I pay any attention to a liar? Why should anyone?
Work on your posts, promote them, and make constructive comments, and intelligent people will take notice of you. Every spammer I've seen on my comments section is on my personal blacklist, and will receive nothing from me, unless there's a really good reason.
I think the community as a whole should be a bit more strict towards this kind of behavior.
Thanks.