Well said, I've compared allowing scammers to slip through the cracks to get Steem Power to allowing barnacles to accumulate on the Steem ship. In this analogy though, the barnacles can't be scraped off of Steem!
Upvotes should not be thrown everywhere especially if you have a lot of Steem Power.
In the slack chat, there is a channel #steemitabuse for trying to deal with any scam/spam/etc abusive posts. You are welcome to join and help out!
RE: Taking curating seriously: we have to DOWNVOTE fakers!