I have been on Steemit less frequently recently due to many factors including family, work, and other responsibilities. I think the platform is a great source of inspiration. However, I found a reason why it is quite discouraging to users. What seems like a good intention is now like a police state where I have to prove my innocence because something that seems innocuous has a profound negative effect on my psyche. I have been flagged by a bot, 
I am not even sure how to respond to that or I should even respond to it at all. I wonder why someone would think my posts were spam. Maybe it was due to the fact that I wrote similar well-wishes to new Steemians. How many ways exactly can you say, "Welcome to the Steemit platform. Best of luck!" I like doing that. That was how I was welcomed to the site when I first started. I intend to do here and there as well. I don't do it every day, but every few days, when I log on, I look at the tag #introduceyourself and look through a few of them and write a note welcoming them to the site. Just because I do that, I get tagged by a bot for producing "spam"! Part of the reason is that I wrote the same line and it's "impersonal".
I guess I understand why the spam part would look bad. It just feels really bad when I have to defend that and just the image that I did something because the freaking bot flagged my comments seem concerning. Big accounts and whales get to police what the little accounts and get to set what they consider rightful comments and what's not... that doesn't seem democratic to me at all.
I went onto the discord channel to ask the question. Not sure if I got to the right person yet. I hope that I don't end up on some blacklist that I will have to dig my way out of. I really don't have time for that crap. Welcome to my world! It will really make one to want to contribute and see it through..NOT!
Pissed and confused by the idiosyncratic nature of a platform that is communally run.
