That's true. Now that spammers are all over Steemit it has become harder for minnows to establish in this platform. Most probably they also think the best (and sometimes only) way to succeed on Steemit is pay bots and spammers to upvote them, which in the first place should not be the case.
Bottomline: THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED, and ASAP in that matter.
RE: Steemit creates accounts for scammers... and nobody else?