Yeah, there's really not a perfect fix, besides trying to educate people. I don't like to downvote, because Steemit is being looked at as if it's just a social media and in that regard, I can understand people expected upvotes for sharing a simple cat picture or a video. They might just not know better.
Muting is an option, but that doesn't help the community as a whole. Commenting on every post like that would be a day job though, so let's just hope these articles we write sometimes will help a bit.
Yeah exactly my words - some are just so ridiculous copy and paste a comment under 100s of posts