A few of my recent posts have gotten a reply from this same douchebag that says something like "Welcome to Steemit! Follow me, I post fun pictures every day!" He copy and pastes it on everyone's posts. I'm going to start down voting all of his shit. I've seen him post in on people's sad/upsetting posts even.
Yeah, that crap on a sad post is not what the author needs to see. Downvotes are in order for this jerk.
flagging them is always an option
hmm especially as you have a lot of followers and steem power, they want your attention (possibly for upvotes)
i noticed that as someone gain more followers, the more comments they'll receive on their posts. inevitably, the spam will come as well.