@kenny
spam was a different issue (and was being handled well at the time given the resources they had imo)
we had a "following" feed, you only saw spam if people you followed were spamming, in which case the unfollow button was right there
good people were onboarded during that time, gained a few followers, then realized those followers didn't matter because unless they could make it into the algo consistently no one was gonna see their stuff
so they bounced