I’ve had a few times where they were not to “polite” lol. After they told me they were not “spam” because “they only did it once on that blog.” It is so true though even when you get them to stop a few days later they are at it again.
I’ve seen a few people out there set up some bait blogs out there just to nuke the daylights out of the spammers when they show up. It’s really hilarious to watch.
Why people insist on leaving comments like it’s the comment section of YouTube or Twitter and therefore they must limit how much they type is beyond me!!! The really long ones I’ve noticed get a couple of upvotes and sooner or later they start taking that rep hit and then act like they did nothing wrong.
I had a really productive chat once with a guy trying to defend them. Who I assumed did similar things. Some of these people pay an hourly rate to sit in an internet café in their country and spam all day hoping to make a profit. They live in countries where the cost of living and rental cost for pc and internet are low enough if they make a couple bucks off upvotes they are set for that day or even a week depending how much. So, at least some of these people can be starved out once they lose too much money they are off to whatever thing in life they find to make a quick buck.
Another thing I have noticed is it’s a culture thing. Some of these people live in countries where you shout all day in a marketplace or go door to door telling everyone that you can about what you are selling. So they think by spamming their blogs everywhere (because that’s how they do it in their country) that we will be “welcoming” of their actions. At least some of these people can be reason with. It's still very rare and most time not worth the time to even reason with them.
Part of the issue also lies in these people spamming hoping to get an upvote from random bots that reward certain types of behavior on steemit. I’ve wasted far too much time trying to convince these people it really can be worth spending the time making a decent to a good comment.
This is unfortunately a difficult truth... last site I saw destroyed by this sort of behavior... 95% of the "action" came from four particular locations that are now starting to show up here on Steemit, in some force. Cost of living isn't necessarily as much of an indicator as culture. Just look at the Nigerian contingent on Steemit... engaging, produce lots of quality content-- use the platform to make authentic differences in their lives. Same with much of the Venezuelan community. Certain other places, no so much... almost like cheating and "half assed" is a more culturally acceptable value.