I remember a long time ago I would occasionally interact with Trafalgar in comments, and once in a while he's toss an upvote my way, but it was certainly never "provoked." It has been a long time since that happened, though.
It seems almost inevitable that when the price of Steem rises, the spammers and shitposters show up in droves...
He's been gone for 2 years by the looks of things but because of his trafalgar-bot, people still thought he was active so posted shit in the hope of catching an upvote.
Now that the bots stopped, they'll need to find some other lazy approach!