Haters gon' hate.
lol.
Nice detective work; I just followed you upvoted this post and resteemed it. When I get a little more SP I plan on delegating you some.
Don't worry about people like that, your shedding of light upon them will only serve to have those of us who will now (or continue) to support you in a clearly harmless activity.
The platform works this way and it's healthy this way. CEOs are rewarded ludicrous bonuses by their boards or even by themselves. The system is how it is and even if you were upvoting in your own self-interest (not saying you necessarily were)...who gives a $h1t? The people who do such things will only help the community get stronger as 'exploits' end up getting patched. Even if they don't get patched, like i said...that makes this a truly free market economic platform...which is a great part of the platform.
Politicians are elected with money. People are stupid enough to vote for their leader based on Facebook ads apparently (hogwash...just political dialectic to polarize people's views of Pres. Trump). Before the internet, TV ads or even before that, radio commercials were never mentioned as being targeted to demographics...despite the fact that they are,
Ranted a bit there...but you get my point. If anyone has an issue with it, get off the platform.