Totally agreed. On another note, this situation actually made me like Steemit more! Some folks want the uncensorable Wild West of blockchain, but I don’t mind choosing my front end use based on their stewardship & philosophy. Steemit was first to block that Dark Overlord asshat, and they’ve also made these spammers invisible (except for the comment count). I hope other sites follow suit and take measures to hide this spam. They could always leave a setting to “opt in” to seeing spam... but who the hell would ever toggle that switch!?!

edit - looks like SteemPeak is onboard too, Partiko needs to hide the spammer!