Thanks for writing this post @dumar022. I haven't experienced this myself but I'm aware of it. I suspect the crowd spamming peoples' wallets are so engrossed by their tactics of 'follow me', 'nice post', and 'look at my post' blanket coverage, that they'll never read posts like this, or even comments trying to persuade them of more beneficial ways for them, and steemit.

So the question begs - How to educate people that under any circumstance, begging is pointless and fruitless before they are approved?

Perhaps a short animated intro video where one can't fast forward explaining steemit as a whole with a clear explanation that these behaviours don't work,won't work, and are generally frowned upon.

Then a quick multiple choice to show an understanding before approval. People can take it again and again if they fail.

Just a thought. Cheers for letting me share.