They actually fixed the hot algorithm! So you can no longer sybil your way to the top of hot, which is awesome. They finally listened. :) However, making new accounts is still too easy, and people are already using this maliciously with sock puppets. Hopefully the founders are aware of this.
Despite fixing the hot algorithm, the vote count is still shown, which is silly, since I still want to use all my steem power to upvote my content but it's spread among so many accounts. Would still be nice to be able to proxy my upvotes to my main account... but at least I feel less bad about upvoting my own content now.
The whole point of what I typed out was not that aliases are a "problem" that need to be fixed. it is that the appropriate fix is already in the platform. That fix is, if I split my SteemPower(funds) across 2 accounts I will reduce my voting power. Not that fixing the hot algorithm was unnecessary or anything.
Well my understanding is that 1000 x 3sp accounts is equivalent to 1 x 3000sp account. So splitting your power is just.. somewhat a waste of time (but sadly unavoidable if you are a miner).
In my opinion aliases are only really a problem if they are misused or abused.
Thanks for the white-hat work!
"The system of Steem almost appears to be built under the assumption that people will form aliases. But, this action will give them almost no advantage over others given the way Steem works."<- looks like this has come home to roost for you now. You got a lot of powering down to do. Would it help if I checked out you accounts and voted something up for each of them... LOL
It's not entirely true that there is no advantage, yet. One can refresh reputation with a new alias, for example.
And yep, my mining accounts are being slowly powered down and the steem is funneled into my main account.