Everything is rampant. Scammers, spammers, plagiarizers, copy/pasters, comment spammers, bot nets, you name it.
The problem is it seems to be more and more encouraged by the whales voting for it and use of those dang boosters and resteem things. It's like trying to plug the whole in the dyke when the water level is 2 feet over it and rising.
Sure, but it can easily be turned around. If we decide that stolen content or scams are to be downvoted at all costs people will stop doing it.
Unfortunately most people only see the short term reward in getting the curation from upvoting. Getting people to downvote or even remove their votes from abuse is worse than pulling teeth. The scammers are slowly winning. All they have to do is what that g-dub is doing to try to take support away from those actually fighting the abuse. The personal attacks and revenge flaggings are fun too. deal with too.
Yeah I agree and for the record, I am against personal attacks and revenge flagging too, I should have mentioned that in my post because it is a definite problem.