Ugh... I'm really on the fence about @creativecrypto and @sndbox. Some of their articles are so good, and they used to have some of the best community engagement around... but mostly they're just posting other people's work and self-voting the heck out of themselves. I think they might even be exceeding current Haejin levels.
It really raises the question about what do we do if companies jump on Steem, but a ton of coin and then just use it to upvote themselves. A Nike could wipe us out overnight.
I have noticed those authors and their votes, particularly the first, and it didn't look too pretty. And especially because it's a delegation.
The tokens would need to come from the exchange, and so i think i huge buy in, especially from someone like Nike would make for some interesting price action :)
Oh, 100% companies buying Steem would increase the price for us all... initially... but if you didn't sell straight away, you'd have SP on a platform that you can't access the reward pool on... which, I'm sure, would make it worthless. Basically, if lots of companies did the exact same as this media company, we'd have to move to another blockchain.