Yes. People do that. People are focused on speed.

Definitely have to flag it every time.

They are going to keep coming because it's human nature for the lazy to see Steemit as a chance to make an easy buck.

Definitely agree it's going to affect the value of the platform.

To bot or not to bot: that seems to be a big issue here. The whole point of Steemit, at least I thought, was to share quality posts, and have fun. Naive notion I guess.

I still think, in spite of the abuses, that one can succeed here to some meaningful degree with just doing good work. Best of luck to you!

I too am at a loss as to which method would work for the better. 
These replies that usually have no mention of the content, only asking for a follow, upvote and resteem?????? (for what exactly?) really to put it bluntly...piss me off. 
I really believe in steemit as a platform for quality content, and would be most disappointed for it to become a pseudo-Facebook with questionable drivel on it. 
The other day I saw a post of a selfie with a dog nose and whiskers.......is this what it's evolving into? Only two days ago a friend mentioned that Facebook is full of selfies with stupid superimposed animal faces lately and he is finished with it. I felt glad that steemit is above that level of stupidity.....only to come across that photo! 
What to do?

i think one interesting  long term option would be to have a field on profiles which denotes a profile as bot (or bot enabled) and normal.

the default for a new user would be to enable interaction with all bot profiles. however, as the user becomes more familiar with the community and believes a certain bot or bot enabled profile is not adding value to their blogs they could have either all bot profiles muted or specific profiles.

this type of filter would allow bots to be viable in the community but also allow for users to customize their experience.

in terms of identifying bots profile, i think the best would be for self-disclosure under settings. if a bot profile was not correctly identified other users could flag the profile and once a threshold was reached (minimum flags) the profile would be switched to a bot/bot-enabled profile.

You are a victim of the bots. Before HF19, you needed several thousand steempower to deliver a few cents with an upvote.

After HF19, you were able to deliver 3 cents with just 130 Steempower. 

So the bots spam posts with comments, hoping for upvotes. Even if a few people upvote out of the thousands of comments they spam, they make money out of it, because now minnow votes deliver value. 

I really do think steemit took a wrong turn with HF19. Before that, long posts were picked up by the curation guilds and rewarded well. Now it's not worth them doing that, so the number of people voting has dropped, and quality posts are falling through the cracks. In the meanwhile the comment bots are spamming away, hoping to drain the pool a few cents at a time.

I haven't been long here on Steemit, about 9 days or so. But I can already understand what you mean with this [quality post of yours](https://steemit.com/steemit/@tarazkp/great-post-my-friends-upvoted-resteemed-followed) right here.

What I think is need to be done is this:
* **Redirect part of the money that people get through copy/paste comment spamming, one photo posts, low quality posts, so on and so forth to the people who are actually putting in some 4 hours to create a quality posts for their own profile.**

I know that this is easier said than done. But I am a guy of ideas, with little practical skills when it coming to code such things into existence.

One thing I am still unsure about though, it's flagging. I've been hearing both positive and negative feedback regarding that. So for now I'll be learning more about it, then choose on wheter to involve myself with it, or not.
Anyway, great post! Totally agree with you on most points. Followed :)

In my town, it is getting dark. It is time to sleep.  My habit is to lower my voting power to 90%. In this way I hope to find it refreshed tomorrow.  In this evening ritual, I first vote for my replies.  I then browse my feed to find value. Hopefully after this ,I am down to a manegable level..  This works for me.

This won't be a long reply as I've just got home from work with a headache but I wanted to note something. I think the last thing I posted on steem was a reply to another of your posts in which I detailed my experience with garbage posts and "follow me" comments and how they've all but driven me away. I avoided names simply out of... not respect but I guess I'll use that word. Anywho.. point is you pointed out @izbing being a a purveyor of these types of posts and I laughed because s/he is exactly who I was referring to in my comment. My feed was littered with google image searches burying anything I was actually interested in.

My hope is that the pyramid scheme of shit posting will collapse as all pyramids schemes do. Long term success would require either a constant stream of new folks like me to fall into the trap (since I and others like me will only unfollow days or a couple weeks later) or a healthy following of people who enjoy google image search posts being spoon fed to them. If such a group of people exists so be it. A demand is being served.

Personally I don't think this kind of posting strategy is sustainable. I do however think it has the potential to drag down and potentially kill the platform as it enters its own death throes.

Well shit that was a lot longer than anticipated. Anywho, my 2 satoshis, now I need an ibuprofen or two.

These types of comments really are a turn off to the whole platform. For myself though I notice I read something and it's great and it moves me and I want to leave a comment to show appreciation. I would love to just quickly say "I love this" or "I really enjoyed your post" but then I feel like I am perpetuating the comment format I so dislike. The difference is though that I really did read the whole post and I really did enjoy or love it. So sometimes if  I don't have time I don't comment at all for fear of it being taken in the wrong way and that kind of sucks.

I've seen a few posts regarding this behavior. Yes, it's super annoying to get a "Very interesting read!" 40 seconds after posting a long, thought-out article. Ultimately I don't think the behavior is going to pay out. People want a short-cut and so engage in attention-seeking behaviors, write shitty posts, or upload regurgitated content, unaware that ultimately it's quality content and thoughtfulness that's going to keep people coming back.

Unfortunately, the people who already hate this behavior will agree with you, and the "F4f" crowd probably won't even read the post.  Oh well. This behavior reminds me of those people who put so much effort into running scams that they probably could have launched a legitimate business instead...

I foresee a time when some sort of *Captcha* system has to be used. 
Another thing I hesitate to mention but, it is painfully obvious:
Where are the new posters coming from?  
I can only hope that this too is a phase.  The new wave will find out that having 1000 followers does not equal upvotes . ..  and upvotes from 1% of steem power is useless. 
Oh well,   I like your tag . . . "A Steemit Original."   

Temporary wave of accounts . . . Then some other oddity.

Yeah no kidding... this stuff is annoying as hell.  I do not upvote or follow any of the people who don't bother to write something thoughtful or at least show that they read my article.  It's like begging for change.

Totally agree, just try an #introduceyourself post and see how many bots reply to it... 
In my case more than actual users...

Pretty hard to make a real writting work, explain your opinion about a subject and had more comments than actual views.
Getting "great content" by a bot is almost more sad than feeling like a ghost when nobody see your work...