The spam will never end. It can only be flagged and ignored. Here the flagging can be helpful if is used by right people.
But spammers can flag or down vote on good people.
I suppose that things can be ignored at some point, but when it grows it must be talked somewhere, not with a crying post but maybe in some way.

Maybe on steemit.chat or discord...
We'll see. Lets hope it will be not so bad as we see it. Lets grow :-)