The Steem platform is ours. It will look like we shape it.
Of course there are abuse, as everywhere. Here it's even more annoying because of rewards involved.
We as users can do what you just did. Flag the abuse.
There are also organized groups of people trying to fight abuse and using more sophisticated ways of dealing with it.
You might want to check #steemitabuse channel on a steemit.chat and/or use this form:
https://steemcleaners.org/abuse-report/
for reporting abuse.
Good luck! :-)
thanks man, i'm reading into it now, just found out about steemcleaners and other stuff. It's just annoying because i find more content to flag than i do content to vote