Hello @shayne
Thank you for your resourceful posts.
As a person who is in constant communication with new Steemians due to the contest i organised for them, one the reasons why they use cheap methods like begging for follows to grow their blog is because they have limited time online.
That is why i wrote my last Blockchain Blogger post to deal with the Issue.
Like @bearbear613, most people are eager to learn and all you have to do is point them in the right direction.
I will be checking out the other post you listed in this post.
The problem is that the "quick" solutions are almost always the wrong ones, and will actually end up wasting the users time. That's the tragic part :(