Granted the paper concedes that this is not preventable by any means except other whales negative-voting the person gaming the system...
That's right. This type of collusion among whale voters can only be negated by equal or more powerful whales. That's why it's important for this platform to have those balances - especially at the top. The bad actors need to be identified so that the community can decide how to deal with them - but ultimately, if they are some of the most powerful, then the decision to counter their behavior lies in the hands of very few people.
So I ask, why is ats-david getting negative votes from the folks heavily invested in steem?
I'm getting the flags from the very people who are colluding with each other in order to prop up the accounts mentioned in my post. That information on collusion will be presented in future posts.