Alternatively, users could choose to act more subtly by spreading stake across more, but smaller, votes at the cost of a suboptimal return. We cannot eliminate such behavior entirely, but we can make it less economically viable.
See, the problem is one of perspective. One cannot have a totally decentralized and censorship free platform that grants monetary incentives (the whole purpose of using a blockchain, right?) AND control what people do with it, including spam, bid bots and the rest. To me, this is how I know it's a platform of freedom and NOT one of Facebook-like totalitarianism. I want to see some abuse take place, and I want to see community action solve it, like in many cases in Steemit's past. Not some core team of developers, who should step away from the politics of steemit, and be more concerned writing press releases about how the Steem blockchain is even more decentralized (like, way more than 19-top-witnesses decentralized).
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