Thank you @dbzfan4awhile. Yes, the scheme mentioned in our example happens in every big market. Which is why we wanted to know more fully how steem is prepared to protect itself from these larger market influencers.

We see that our enterance hook on this paragraph was.... overwhelmingly strong to the point of creating emotion dissonance. We have retracted our earlier introduction statement to be more neutral. Clearly, the steem community and economy has a lot going for it.

It was really nice to see a lot of information here otherwise unavailable to us. In some time we will release an addition to our steem academy that includes the best information from this thread and other threads.