The situation today reminds me the wild west in 19th century.
No central authority,rush for gold, undiscovered lands...thanks god we don't have poor natives.
The only way to catch criminals was the bounty hunters.
My idea to fight spam is put people in fighting spam.
What we may form is an anti-curation site, anti utopian.io.
With supervisors, moderators , delegators.
People, spam hunters, should report spams with predefined rules : why is it spam, what before evidence of the spammer etc..
Once an accepted definition of spam is made, rest is easy.
These spam reporters after acceptation of moderators according to rules, can be upvoted and earn upvotes on spam.
Then, the spammer should be flagged.
The only difficulty here is to define "what is spam?"
One fine day, I may like the lying of my cat on the heater and I may want to post her picture, with just a word... my cat on heater...
There is no problem in doing this.
But, if I start to spend SBD for such a post, this is not because everybody to see my cat but to earn easy cash on simple post.
So, the target should not be the spam but it should be "upvoted spam".
It is impossible to clean the spam in steemit without paying people for hunting spam.
FD.