The reason why people are doing what they doing is simply to maximize financial returns, which in the long run will hurt the development of Steemit. I've come to realize that most people will still return to Facebook because many of "sharing" and "liking" are not organic and spontaneous.
Desperate people do desperate things. The manifestation of greed is just unbelievable.
I wish if the developers are working on a downvote button next to an upvote button. Rather than upvoting those people, we can downvote them in a similar fashion and "penalize" such two-worded, time-consuming, value destroying comments.
We have a downvote of sorts and it's called the flag button. I have never used it but it is there.