Confronting these follow for follow people seems to work most times. Some people are a little slow to realize it's not the way to act here. This guy yesterday posted a comment on my post which I had already seen him post the same thing twice already in other people's posts. I checked out his blog and he commented the same "follow for follow" message like 40 times in 30 minutes. It went back way further than that too. His newest blog post was his celebration that he got to 100 followers and about growing the community, even though people had been flagging him down to a Rep 12. I told him what he was doing and that people don't like that and he should actually engage with his comments. He messaged me back and said he didn't realize and that he would stop. I went back and looked a little later and there were no new "follow for follow" comments. So direct confrontation might work for a bunch of it.
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Yes, it usually works (as long as they are not using bots) but there's a "time to reward" balance to every activity you do around here. I tutor them as much as I can too, but at the end of the day there's a threshold and mine was just reached :)