I appreciate the verbose reply ;)
Standards and guidelines need to be put in place across the board
This will be a bit difficult, as you have seen a centralized entity do that on our sister chain and actually enforce it. Who gets to decide?
You will always have unreasonable people and many of them own the most stake or could acquire, there needs to be some cap.
I agree we could have more measures in place to emphasize the lower stake votes. That's a fine line to walk, but I think measures such as drastically dropping the number of witness votes down from 30 are a great start.
It's been only two days, but I agree, the battle for HIVE's success has just started.