I think the main point I was making was how much things have changed, for the worse, since I joined in December. That's what shocked me most.
These are my musings, not my friends. He is content to plod on for now because he's seen the success I've had.
From my perspective it's not so much that these are low re accounts. I agree with you it takes time and effort to build a blog and most of my early followers were low rep too but these accounts following him are blatant spam. They are not simply low rep accounts that will improve with time.
However, if you have found 500+ that are genuine people trying to make a go of it then I agree, the more of those you can save the better and good riddance to the spam accounts.
I look forward to hearing your report in a months time and it will be interesting to see what my friends account looks like then.
In the meantime, I'm going to go through all those that are following him and report as many as I can to Steemcleaners. 😊
so so much has changed, you are correct. Aswesome work on helping this guy/gal and spending the time reporting the accounts to steemcleaners. we need more people doing stuff like that :-)