What amazing findings you are sharing with us! Thank you, I am enlightened a bit more now. ;)
Talking with another important individual on this platform about abuse of all sorts, we both came to the conclusion that Steemit should probably have an "Account Downvoting" system where such abusive individuals are givens less and less power to do what they do to our platform.
If we let the baby baobab grow, this could easily become one of the toughest phenomena to cut down...
All for one and one for all! Namaste :)