I don't get it either, @jaynie...

But it's an ancient problem/issue, and it even predates the Internet... back in the "Stone Age" I was a writer for the entrepreneurial press, and would routinely examine and review so-called "income opportunities." And they would be plagued by the same issue of a substantial number of people trying to "cheat the system," rather than use the system legitimately to create their wealth.

My first encounter with a web-based "rewards for user-generated content" venue was a site called "Epinions" in 1999... same thing there: Things started out swimmingly, but after a couple of years it became a full-time job/nightmare to police the spammers and scammers.

And now we're here, and it's pretty much same-old, same-old. But I have to tell you, we do a better job here of keeping a lid on it than almost anywhere else I have seen... so let's feel good about that.

I sometimes ponder what the true root of these practices are... and the only reasonable explanation is that there are substantially many people who feel that "this" should be able to give them more than it was really designed to. I just don't think that "Blogging on Steemit" was ever intended to be (a) easy money or (b) a way to make a six-figure income.

Of course, at the opposite end of the scale, there's the reality that a LOT of people will go to almost insane lengths to get a few cents for something other than "getting a job." To wit, sites like Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" is populated by tens of thousands of people willing to do boring menial tasks for as little as ten cents an hour...