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RE: Steem Pope Sermon: Recognizing Spam, and How To Respond
great post @jacobtothe! I occastionaly get spam and usually just avoid responding or I just ignore them. I got one yesterday and then I got another reply saying that post was spam and it had a link in it, which I also didn't click. What if a spammer says another post is spam and thus gets you to click on their bad link? Another thing to look at is their reputation. When the spammer posted yesterday their reputation was 11, today is it 0.
Due diligence matters. Always be careful. If you are using a computer, you can hover your mouse over the link to see the real target URL at the bottom of the screen and verify whether it is a Steemit post or something else. But when in doubt, ignoring an odd hyperlink is always safest.