Amazing post! Worth much more than my paltry minnow vote, haha!
There are some real gems mixed in the flood of posts! I have wondered if perhaps making posts should perhaps cost some kind of steem, perhaps taken out of the voting pool or maybe something separate to make sure that the guys posting every twenty minutes something along the lines of "if u follw me, i can vote you up 10x. send sbd. frnd me i follw u bak" kind of crap. Though I would hate for that cost to stifle high quality contributing posts or further limit upvotes for quality content.
Anyway, Loved the article, and I find steemit much preferred over other social media and mass blog sites because of posts like yours!
I'm glad I have been able to be of benefit.
Regarding 'F4F' and similar types of posts, I expect as new accounts mature, they will learn that this is not only useless in building communities here on Steemit, which is different than other social media which measure the value of one's account by the number of followers, regardless of their actual engagement, or go away.
I'd rather not make posting harder permanently to solve what I think is a temporary problem that will solve itself.
Thanks for giving this issue thought!