LAST IMPROVEMENT: Excluded scammers that were active yesterday. See this post for the scammers active yesterday:
Scammer Alert 20180416 | 警告有骗子 20180416

Note: Level 1 commenters are those who leave comment at the first level in reply to a post directly.

Here’s a look are the top level 1 commenters for 20180416. I’ve excluded known bots and curators from this but if anyone has any suggestions, they are most welcome. This serves to inform and you make you own decision whether they are the good, the bad or the ugly. I can only comment once every 20 seconds. Correction: I am only allowed to comment only once every 20 seconds. I type fast and sometimes get that annoying message quite a bit when responding and when I reply on my phone using voice typing, I get that even more. Anyway, 1,000 comments will need at least 333 minutes which is more than 5 and half hours. Hands up those of you who have spent more than 5 hours leaving comments at the first level.

🎶Meanwhile, some music for you to enjoy as you read. This piece is part of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, particular the first of the 4 violin concertos, called Spring.
🎶让大家继续读的时候，欣赏一点音乐。这件作品是维瓦尔第的“四季”的一部分 - 4小提琴协奏曲中的第一首，名为“春天”。
Source | 来源: https://musopen.org/

https://soundcloud.com/alan-chang-563971986/four-concerti-grossi-4-vivaldi-op8-i-la-primavera-allegro-largo-allegro

Top 20 level 1 commenters and their active hours for 20180416

This shows the top 20 level 1 commenters and the number of level 1 comments posted at different hours of the day.

Top 20 Active

A look at some of their comments

First 28 characters...

This is a list of comments from the above users which looks at the first 28 characters as similar comments and list of these similar comments that has occurred 10 or more times (ignoring those less than 10 times).

Commenter	First 28 characters	Count
@arcange	`WARNING - The message yo` ...	499
@crispycoinboys	`Steemgar Stats for the Past` ...	92
@crispycoinboys	`Steemgar Stats for the All T` ...	44
@funnyshow	`Become an Investor Exchange` ...	159
@gaman	`Resteemed your article. Thi` ...	662
@muksteem	`![](https://steemitimages.co` ...	102
@newsteemians	`Welcome to Steem Community @` ...	184
@upvotebank	`UpvoteBank` ...	113

Middle 28 characters...

This is a list of comments from the above users which looks at the middle 28 characters as similar comments and list of these similar comments that has occurred 10 or more times (ignoring those less than 10 times).

Last 28 characters...

This is a list of comments from the above users which looks at the last 28 characters as similar comments and list of these similar comments that has occurred 10 or more times (ignoring those less than 10 times).

Commenter	Middle 28 characters	Count
@arcange	.... `orted-scammers-use-account-s` ...	233
@arcange	.... `https://steemit.com/steemit/` ...	232
@arcange	.... `ing-site-reported-postupper-` ...	28
@crispycoinboys	.... `"op 5: First Place\| Rank \| "` ...	44
@crispycoinboys	.... `"Top 5: First Place\| Rank \| "` ...	30
@crispycoinboys	.... `" \| :------------ \| :--: \|\| "` ...	14
@crispycoinboys	.... `"ted. Top 5: First Place\| "` ...	11
@exxodus	.... `ep up the good work! It's al` ...	89
@exxodus	.... `eep up the good work! It's a` ...	68
@exxodus	.... `p up the good work! It's alw` ...	44
@exxodus	.... `Keep up the good work! It's` ...	42
@exxodus	.... `Keep up the good work! It's` ...	31
@exxodus	.... `up the good work! It's alwa` ...	18
@exxodus	.... `eciation for art and photos,` ...	15
@exxodus	.... `reciation for art and photos` ...	12
@exxodus	.... `ity and it's nice having gre` ...	10
@exxodus	.... `s back to a weird space but` ...	10
@funnyshow	.... `"======================= The"` ...	154
@gaman	.... `ans project. You can learn m` ...	662
@muksteem	.... `/DQmXUKHcgF3nXcUJhWpMT1Y3jCw` ...	102
@newsteemians	....`"ns. In the New Steemians " ...`	48
@newsteemians	....`"ons. In the New Steemians" ...`	40
@newsteemians	....`"ions. In the New Steemian" ...`	31
@newsteemians	....`"s. In the New Steemians p" ...`	30
@newsteemians	....`"tions. In the New Steemia" ...`	25
@newsteemians	....`"ctions. In the New Steemi" ...`	10
@sultanmr	.... `o upvote and follow me too.` ...	20
@sultanmr	.... `to upvote and follow me too.` ...	19
@sultanmr	.... `t to upvote and follow me to` ...	13
@sultanmr	.... `to upvote and follow me too` ...	11
@upvotebank	.... `eNmDSLydKKTfBwokj/__2.jpg) \|` ...	113

Commenter	Last 28 characters	Count
@anif123	...`" follow Saling membantu kawa"`	91
@crispycoinboys	... `\| @tauno \| 66.30 \|`	44
@crispycoinboys	... `\| @gamingchimp \| 1.18 \|`	19
@funnyshow	...`"окчейн. https://goo.gl/v25pB"`	156
@gaman	... `/new-steemians-project-launc`	662
@newsteemians	... `/new-steemians-project-launc`	184
@sadkitten	... `vroi-notoriety-flagging-bot)`	88
@sultanmr	... `s---page-2-1523833974-465881`	19
@sultanmr	... `s---page-7-1523834131-088935`	19
@sultanmr	... `s---page-3-1523834005-794281`	18
@sultanmr	... `s---page-5-1523834069-497230`	18
@sultanmr	... `s---page-6-1523834103-822764`	18
@sultanmr	... `s---page-4-1523834038-589784`	17
@sultanmr	... `ts---page-8-1523834154-39203`	17
@sultanmr	... `s---page-1-1523833470-680196`	13
@upvotebank	... `steemit/@upvotebank/gzsr5aw6`	113