With all the low effort "great post" comments, we need to start flagging them to put an end to them.
Such comments add nothing to the discussion, take up space on the blockchain and reduce the rewards for those making actual substantial comments. Basically, the people making such comments are parasites.
If you agree with a post or thinks it's great, then show that with an upvote and reward the author, you don't need to make a comment which is essentially a text upvote. If you're posting stuff like that, you may as well be a bot.
All such posts should be flagged as they're detrimental to the system. The problem is, flagging uses up your steem power. So, I propose that we setup a "steamflaggers" community that's dedicated to flagging those useless comments in order to put a stop to them.
What do you think about such a proposal?
Read the whitepaper, specifically:
Eliminating “abuse” is not possible and shouldn’t be the goal. Even those who are attempting
to “abuse” the system are still doing work. Any compensation they get for their successful
attempts at abuse or collusion is at least as valuable for the purpose of distributing the
currency as the make-work system employed by traditional Bitcoin mining or the collusive
mining done via mining pools. All that is necessary is to ensure that abuse isn’t so rampant
that it undermines the incentive to do real work in support of the community and its
currency.
The goal of building a community currency is to get more “crabs in the bucket”. Going to
extreme measures to eliminate all abuse is like attempting to put a lid on the bucket to
prevent a few crabs from escaping and comes at the expense of making it harder to add new
crabs to the bucket. It is sufficient to make the walls slippery and give the other crabs
sufficient power to prevent others from escaping.