It's sad, but in reality you can't win till there are promotional services and not the real curators like there were before.

They do exist. Maybe you should try to be involved in a community and work together instead of bribing the bots. People seem to be averse to work but rather seek shortcuts. There will be a reckoning for their kind. The blockchain does not forget.

Even being banned from using these services only mean making a new account. The problem lays in these services offering just too good deals, but that is just my opinion.

You make a good point. Yes, it is trivial for abusers to create a new account and start over. You know what really makes a difference. Affecting their payout so the abusers end up losing funds.

That is arguably the most effective deterrent. When we hurt their wallet, the lesson is learned rather quickly.

As for you.If you want to share content that isn't yours, you decline rewards. It's simple.

Adding a sentence really doesn't justify the rewards and you know it. So, let's stop being disingenuous and stop trying to deflect to other users. Own up and propose how you are going to fix this.

Also, if you have an abuser to report, then report it. Just selling your votes to this user is compounding the problem of abuse on Steem. It's difficuly to take seriously someone complaining about an issue when that person bears responsibility in enabling it.