As nice as it all sounds, this banding together system, I feel it doesn't work out mathematically effective at all.
If 500 users can counter the effects of one big user, then we need 5,000 users to counter merely 10.
50,000 users all consistently banding together and dedicating themselves to a cause against merely 100 bad apples.
A real-world example would be like expecting a country's people to overturn its evil government, but it turns out there's actually a line of 50 evil governments in cahoots with each other, each as powerful as the last. There's only so much the population can, and is willing to, do.
If 'The EIP is based on the assumption that people care about this community ', then I fear it was a terrible assumption to assume, and makes an ass out of u and me.
As for alternatives... I dunno
It's like the lemmings misconception. lol
I agree with you on this one