RE: This is what a top HIVE witness does: self comment+voting and downvote-retaliation
You're worried about a few STEEM holders who are protesting or shit posting to recoup some of their investment in STEEM?
After years of listening to the Korean, Chinese and other communities @spaminator has left STEEM. One argument that has been made over and over - centralized downvoting should not be allowed to stop comment farming and shit posting to recoup or grow investments.
@virus707 who is a member of @triple.aaa witness supported and upvoted a number of farms a few years ago. They may still. I don't actively hunt farms anymore.
You should be more worried about what you don't see. The last post from @steemitblog promises to streamline on-boarding and bring millions of users to STEEM.
$1/mo will rent a VPN that can control a massive number of accounts. About 6500 accounts with 15SP will get you almost $5 a day right now I think.
Steemit will focus on improving our product to compete with Reddit
A decentralized reddit?
The new trending?
Not hard to see massive farms hiding under all that whether it is accounts using the STEEM faucet or those that buy into STEEM. It's still bad for the community in the long run IMO.
You're an astute personality on here, Patrice and I've always respected you. Please don't support such behaviour. The fact that he went way back to his old posts to spam is a clear indication that he didn't want people to find out.
@gtg, this is such a bad example. Just because you're leaving a chain doesn't mean you should spam it. You know you could just as easily remain on here as well.