It's an issue with integrity. People think that they can earn money here for anything, so they post as many meaningless comments and posts as they can possibly churn out, hoping to earn a few cents hundreds of times...

They also think that having thousands of followers is going to make them earn more money, and it probably will in the short term. Steemit will be ruined when the masses learn about it... I'm slowly coming to the realization that this ship has too many holes in it, and there aren't enough people trying to plug them...