I thing they should be shunned. But as a new user to this platform or even to the terminology it's easy to see how and why one would fall for a scam. A lot here are like the old people of today that get a scammer text message, Savy people who have been dealing with text for a decade or more know it's a scam right off the bat. But some of the scams are sly. Very sly. We all see about 20 different ways to invest in crypto currency in general. What's the best? What's the best way for Steemit?