I find this an excellent idea; you guys are sacrificing your profitability for the sake of our community. You now are closer to other services like Smartsteem, which put quality and abuse counter-measures first.

Thanks for that, as someone who tries to put effort and quality on my posts I appreciate that spammers and con people do not have an advantage, no matter how much money they have.

Good job! our community is thriving, and this is the time to do the correct before we get rotten from the inside. All ourselves as users should exercise caution before supporting bots which allow abuses.

I just made a post yesterday about why Steem is a living Utopia, I think is connected to actions like yours.

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