Agreed my friend, we as consumers are suckers for being lured into all of these schemes. Big Pharma does exactly the same, as they hold trade registration on a pill, then when the registration is due to expire, they add a different ingredient and register the same pill for another long term period. Everyone has a scheme up their sleeves nowadays and it's called democracy. As usual it's the consumers that are conned!
Let's hope that steemit will not follow the same route!
Blessings and thank you for the kind tokens!