You know, I really don't get these spammers - why the hell would you do this? First, they're hurting the platform AND the community. Which is ungrateful, to say the least. Not to mention, undeserved by those of us who do actually work on our posts and actually struggle to grow the community and help it prosper.
Second, don't they realize Steemit is this golden ticket? That it's too good to be true? You get to meet awesome people and be rewarded for writing what YOU want and still you try to steal and abuse it?

No wonder change is so hard...with people like this trying to screw it up at every step.

I think you made a good decision themarkymark. You're one of the good guys.