From the example above there does seem to be some kind of a fishy trend, there does seem to be a lot of shady practices going on among many other users making huge amounts, even those pretending to be saints aka 'helpful' citizen's . Doesn't take rocket science to see the massive hypocrisy among many popular user's.
However, I'm confused, if the maker's of this platform have made it to be allowed last minute upvoting why are regular user's deciding its abusive? Why are you considering it abusive period? I am not taking sides, but I think the clarification would be helpful to everyone new to Steemit.
Thank you to anyone that helps with this question(s) beforehand.