The amount of upvote-begging, follow-for-follow and spam comments is horrifying and has been the whole summer. From now on I flag comments that does this with -4.
When I started posting here it took me several weeks to earn more than 0.02$ and that was high quality professional content. Begging and Spamming and lifting things from other websites is not just annoying, it is ruining the whole platform.
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