Big thanks go to @steveconnor for [alerting me to this](https://steemit.com/steemcleaners/@steveconnor/don-t-get-mad-get-paid-usdusdusdusd). We all know Steemit is plagued by spam, plagiarism and other abuse of the system. Many of you will feel you cannot flag this because you don't have enough SP to affect it and you fear reprisals. Well, there is an alternative. 

You can report it to @steemcleaners using their [web form](https://steemcleaners.org/abuse-report/). You need to provide some evidence and then I assume one of their team checks it out. You can only report each offender once. The great thing is that you can earn rewards for doing this.

![Steemcleaners reward](https://steemitimages.com/DQmY4zFqBgG8EaZ8Gc3jUU3z8GWf6o78hwQCd7nj1oeaThp/image.png)

So all those people who waste our time and their own spamming the system could actually be earning something by helping to reduce that problem. I got a couple of dollars for this case, but I'm not sure what the exact criteria are for getting paid. For some people around the world that's a good bit of money.

So, next time you get a comment like 'hey nice post, please vote me', you can check out that person to see if they are a persistent spammer. If you report them then others can take measures to deal with the problem.

We have to ensure that spam doesn't pay or it will just get worse. On my own posts I will flag it whilst good comments can get a nice vote from me.

Let's make Steemit better. Please check out @steveconnor as he has some great stuff on his feed.

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