I'm sorry Everitt... I know you're anti flag. In most cases, so am I. But we're dealing with an element of bottom dwellers and termites that care not one tiny bit about Steemit, what it stands for, the community, creating content, consequences of their actions... they care ONLY about "how can I extract the next 1/10th cent from this system?" and will go to ends and means unfathomable to you and I to do just that.
There's no "reasoning" with them... we just have to meet them on their turf and smoke 'em out. Kinda like termites...
sad but true.