RE: Steemit creates accounts for scammers... and nobody else?

I could not agree more. I raised this point over a year ago with a number of the folks at Steemit and was told there is nothing they could do because this is the nature of a decentralized platform such as this.

I never really understood that. When I first joined back in August of 2016 everyone had to do the "proof of life" photo holding a pic of them with a steemit sign. If they did not, the community would chastise them....

Now this almost never happens and nobody says anything. Also when did the use of voting bots become a thing. I have never understood this. Call me old fashion (because I actually am) but I am trying to develop an actual audience for my project and I want real people seeing my work, not a bunch of useless bots.

This is all very unfortunate in that many highly creative people have left steemit because of what it is becoming. It is too bad because the underlying concept is awesome and if everybody would play by the rules we all agreed to when we signed up then it would be very cool.

But to be fair, if no one is watching the store then.... well then this is what happens.