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!