Cool and scary, yeah. I agree, but I also think it's necessary to actually punish spammers in some way so they learn. I probably get 2-3 messages on Discord each day, and all of them are from upvote-beggars.
"Please dear, kind, best Sir. I want your upvote and you have my blessing for life."
I hate it. I tried, for a very, very long time, to reason with these people. To tell them how to behave and approach Steemit. I did everything I could to help them. To teach them... And it was all for nothing.
Nowadays, I ignore most of my messages, but that means that I'll actually miss out on something good or genuine too occasionally.
However, now I'm talking more about off-Steemit than on-Steemit. The spammy comments I get on my articles are boring and annoying too obviously, but I don't get as many comments nowadays as I got a few months back, so I'm okay with them.. Well, I don't have any problems to just ignore them.