I do find the problem of new people on occasion, but I think here - it is bots for the most part. Although I do have a couple of people in steemit chat who send me their posts daily in pm's with no text lol.
I'm just happy to put an answer on the comment on my post so it does not just sit there. Hopefully the sadkitten type initiatives are ending most of the problem.
Indeed there's lots of bots here... But I find most of them are helping us... So I am good with that.
That's true. I have a couple nice ones that visit me at times :)