Its just a group of users who got tired of seeing the spam/abuse and grouped together to do something about it.

Ok.

Not associated with steemit inc in any way though.

I'm not entirely sure, but doesn't the "Ok, btw." in my comment kind of suggest that I was asking an another thing just from curiosity and that I wasn't implying that it had anything to do with my previous assumption?

Forgive me being snarky. I'm starting to feel a bit tired and overly touchy as it's already 4am.