Well, you are right, but I guess you have some presuppositions here, that are wrong.
First, you assume, that all of these "players" are intelligent and reasonable people. This is obviously not the case. The moment you want to enter in some kind of reasonable discussion, you get downvoted by either one of the parties and their bully-gang/bots. It´s censorship par excellence what is happening here. People don´t dare to speak up or downvote, because they are afraid to get bullied. This is not different than a school yard brawl and some of the people involved are still in this stage of their development as a human being. In my opinion @heejin is the least to blame, since he is doing nothing wrong here. I also don´t vote often for him, because - as you said - he is overvoted anyway, but at least he is not actively stealing our rewards in any active or malicious way. Yesterday I wanted to use some upvote bots just to see, that this bully you mentioned above was betting horrendous amounts to upvote his hate "postings". This simply is a misuse of the system and taking away rewards from people like me, who want to promote their work and get seen. Even writing this now has the potential of getting bullied the primitive way.
The second assumption you have is, that crying for the teacher/father @ned etc will change the situation. As I said above, these are children that want to test out their power in the most primitive way - speaking to their reason won´t help...
That being said, my solution would be more article like yours, but with the focus on what we can do. First thing would be to make clear, that upvoting and resteeming hate-posts is spreading the hate and therefore not the way to go among adults. I would recommend to ignore hate posters and starve them of what they are begging for: attention by any price.
I hope this article is read and re-steemed as much as possible and reaches many people to make them aware, what they are supporting.
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Ignore and refuse to resteem personal disputes. This sounds like a good solution. It is not coerive like crying for ned, but uses ostracism to push out malfeasers.
Now what's with grumpycat and the "bot wars"?
I've seen some hullaballoo about that. ..
Something needs to be done. It has gone on long enough with no end in sight.
Yes, more people need to voice their opinion and hopefully the "teachers" will finally listen.