Well to be fair, it's not THEIR fault but Steemit's fault. The MOST obvious problem is you can't even delete followers. We've got a TON of marketer-followers who care nothing for our basketball content, they simply "follow" 50,000 people to gain followers themselves. Steemit could also dock points from SteemPower for owning followers who don't interact with your content, that is, AFTER they allow writers to "fire" bogus followers. On Twitter we scrub our followers by blocking them if they are obvioius spammers, but Steemit doesn't make it easy to do this, instead only allowing you to NOT FOLLOW them when you bring up your followers page.

So we'd like to challenge Steemit boardmembers to get creative on cleaning up the content of spam, it's really not that hard to create proper incentives if you think about it cleverly. Would love to see some rebuttal on this.