A Call to Action from the Steem Pope!

Those of us who came to Steemit to create and support original content now have a sad duty to undertake as well. If we are to keep Steemit free from spam and plagiarism, we must police our own ecosystem. The new posts feed is filled with lazy copy-pasted articles, images and meaningless nonsense posted by people who care only about getting rich quick on crypto. While I don't hold "intellectual property" claims in high esteem, basic honesty requires giving credit where credit is due, and a content-based blockchain needs real original content rather than plagiarism.

I call on dolphins, orcas, and whales here to join me in proactively finding a spammer to flag whenever we post something new and original ourselves. We don't need to scroll far these days. Minnows, please support @steemcleaners and use their reporting site when spam, plagiarism, and abuse crop up. We need a holy war on abuse!

The only way to end spam is to make it unprofitable. The only way to make it unprofitable is to use our power to flag such content. This does require judicious action, and newbies deserve a warning, since they likely see little but spam already here, so they must have opportunity to mend their ways after an initial explanation. But we cannot allow dishonest people to pollute the blockchain if we can possibly help it.