I had every intention of writing a totally different post today. I was having a conversation with fellow Steemian 
That's going to have to wait though. Instead, today I am going to write a post about something that I feel is unacceptable that I saw in my news feed.
So I was scrolling through my feed, and I saw this post that had been resteemed by a user named 
I honestly don't know why I follow
As I write this, it is all hindsight of course. When I clicked on the link to read the story it was because I play fantasy football and I legitimately wanted to see what this person had to say about the game tonight. I have Le'veon Bell on my team, the advice here could be the difference between winning and losing tonight.
So I read the article and it was pretty darn good. A couple of pictures (not sourced, but okay...) and quite a bit of text that really seems to be original work.
Imagine my surprise when I get to the comments and see that someone has invoked 
So I scroll back up and think "oh, I surely missed something, there must have just been some pictures and no text." Nope, the text is still there plain as day. Two to three long paragraphs of it.
Listen, I know bidbots are frowned upon. Outside of OCDB, it has probably been a good year or more that I have even used one. I also agree that there has been a lot of content in the past that has been artificially inflated by bid bots. Posts with a single picture that isn't sourced and no text making hundreds of dollars is a disgrace.
This isn't one of those posts though.
Downvoting it from your personal account. I get that, I have no problem with that. Invoking steemcleaners though? I am falling off the other side of the fence on that one.
Now, I can't speak to past work by this person, in fact, I just started following them today because I was so pleased with what I read during my initial introduction to them. I genuinely see this flagging as just a different form of abuse.
Heck, I'll be the first to admit I was wrong, if the typical content from this author amounts to crap. If that isn't the case though, this flagging makes about as much sense as getting in a fist fight with a fellow sports fan because they are wearing a different team shirt than you.
Maybe I will get flagged for saying all of this. Maybe I am missing something. If that is the case, please educate me, I never feel like you are too old to learn.
End Rant