The funny thing is, the best weapon against all this pseudo garbage is not to try and flag it away (will never happen) but to raise the legit science above it. I'm on a shilling rampage at the moment so I'll point out that what we at @steemstem do is precisely that, and we've been doing it for over 2 years and have never gone away.

In fact we're growing in scope and ambition, if not the userbase (because Users are determined by price, and price is determined by Bitcoin. Nice), yet we have consistently gone underappreciated in the upper echelons of Steemit.inc. It seems most people are vaguely aware of us as a highly reputable team, but that's been about the extent of it for 2 years.

It's pretty frustrating when you see a million SP go to some project that magically pops up overnight, and ultimately amounts to nothing after a few months, when there are projects like ours and many others that are genuinely in it for the betterment of Steem, who basically get zero (or less)