I think I understand, thanks for explaining 👍🏼

I need to make more progress with the front-end - life keeps getting in the way so I haven't been able to spend any meaningful time on it recently. What I have decided though, is that I can mute all of the spammers and those abusing the system from my front-end so that Steemit can appear to be much more savoury than it really is. I very rarely look at the main news feed these days but when I do, it looks like half of the content is spam and crap getting auto-upvotes. Steemit needs a good, old fashioned clear out where accounts are ruthlessly deleted.