Totally agree with you. Being a minnow is hard but additional couple of bucks is not worth to sink the shit like all these "follow per follow", "good post. Look at my blog", "help me to survive" or even plagiarism.
And when you support all these things you will see more and more of them in the future. We are risking to turn Steemit into a beggers area.
RE: You want to be blogger ...............than blog !