That is good news. New people, facebookers, and redditors don't want to see that fanboy stuff every day. After the first week it gets really old.
The incentive to post steemit guides and introductions need to be removed too. Guides should come from official sources, and introductions should be in a users bio. Theses things have become scam magnets, people are making multiple accounts to farm the cash, and there are even How-To guides on the subject. Hopefully there will be some official action to fix this too.
How to Stop the Scams - Stop voting for Introductions and Steemit guides
I'll definitely write a post "Flag comments with links to comment author's articles"
If they are not relevant, sure.
I included a link only because it is directly relevant to the steem centric circlejerk posts you were talking about, and didn't want to post a giant paragraph to fully explain it.
Flagged you back.