Hello, I'm a co-creator of Steemhunt. Thanks for your post, BUT your argument is NOT TRUE at all.
The Steemians you mentioned above are all moderators within our community who verify all of Steemhunt's post and check if they meet our Posting Guidelines. In order to pay for their hard work, we use about 10% of our daily voting pool and upvote their moderation comments. This way of paying the moderators has also been confirmed by the delegator.
So, this is not abuse at all. We all work so hard to make Steemhunt a fair and great ranking community. Please re-consider your misleading post. Thanks.