There are a lot of people on steemit that are just begging and asking you to follow etc. without really putting any efforts in at all. I strongly believe in steem and its great future but unfortunately we probably never will get rid of the ones looking for some quick money on here without even trying to understand the underlying system.
Anyways Steem will become one of the Top 10 cryptocurrencies. This social network is unstopable and will definitely make a huge difference in our world.
You are right about beggars and bots. But this is part of the internet. The worst one's are the profile hijackers and the crypto thieves who use and abuse noobs and other net users as they are out to do real damage. We should not forget the whales who abuse people as well.