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Agreed. There are three options - ignore, flag or try and educate. I used to ignore, or blandly reply. But am now making it my mission to improve Steemit, one minnow at a time. Lol.

I managed to change a couple of newbies into voting at least in the last couple of weeks, you have written it better so I will use your spiel in the future, if you are happy at that?

Of course. The more people who use it, the better!