I've decided to cut and paste my comment from another thread by @taskmaster4450 because he did mention your post @neoxian, which more or less set off my reply. Especially with the recent debacle regarding WOO @wrestorgonline (but that's another story for another day). Simply put, I'd say everything is linked to Hivewatchers in one way or another.
HIVE is in itself anti spam because you first need RC/HP to post. That shuts out lots of the advert spam you were mentioning on Youtube in one of the comments.
Isn't the problem with spam accounts getting upvotes in itself negated by the community who will, presumably, NOT upvote low quality content? Or for that matter, the community is more than capable themselves of downvoting spam.
If the aim of HIVE is to grow into a 5million strong social network, then inane stuff which could possibly go viral like "youtube cat videos" are part and parcel of the ecosystem. Who is to judge whether that is spam or not? If everyone gets a laugh out of it, they upvote, or else they'll just move on.
That being said, "Who watches the Watchmen?"
It's up to the people themselves to watch the watchmen! The voice of the many (seems we have a few here in this thread) outweighs the will of the few!
Not supporting a Witness/proposal is a good start, let the people form their own will and rise together against those who seek to hold all power!
Heck, we can't even manage this on Hive, what chance has the World got to overcome such powers!
Either that or it's batman or something?