Appreciate your insight into imminent change Tim, let us hope this is the right way to tackle an ongoing problem.
Many invest both time and money into steem, those who arrived to rape the concept hopefully have moved on, with interested investors remaining.
Number of members is not always a criteria, commitment in assisting those who do put in the effort, growing a strong community will attract new arrivals when knowing what is expected.
Keep sharing steem content to other platforms, that in itself is advertising.