I think that one of the things causing many of the new people to Spam & do it "the hard way" are unrealistic expectations as to the amount of work involved and an unrealistic estimation of how long it takes.

It's very common in their posts, "Hey join Steemit and all we have to do is you upvote my posts and I'll upvote your posts and they give us free money."

Bad habits learned from other platforms need to be broken and the correct way needs to be broadcast far and wide, beginning with the messages used to try and recruit new users.

This post is a step in the right direction @dragonslayer109, it just needs to be repeated by a lot of people over and over again.