omg! What a marvelous coincidence. It's like the collective consciousness has ushered you into my head. It turns out, I wrote about this very same subject last week. But mine was a tad better. It had a narrative lede about Mr. Stubblebine training an army of feral wombats to remove rude people from Medium. If only you read it...;)

btw, I call these people coattail riders. And I promptly remove their comment. If they do what you suggested, I ask them to post their link to broaden the conversation. Such a simple concept.