They are basically janitors they clean up copy and paste content kind of like Cheetah just cite and your fine.
https://steemit.com/steemcleaners/@steemcleaners/cheetah-how-to-appeal
(probably use model tag I guess)
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Pretty much this
Or this
https://steemit.com/steem-help/@steemcleaners/when-is-sharing-another-contributor-s-content-appropriate
Nope but they have reputation and power from their upvotes so the whales decided that they matter not sure if they are also witnesses but if so they can delegate to an extent. (Kind of like a wikipedia mod) Power 75 on Steemit so 1 of 6 people lol.
https://steemit.com/steemcleaners/@steemcleaners/announcing-steemcleaners-the-steemit-abuse-fighting-team
https://steemit.com/witness-category/@anyx/anyx-cheetah-and-steemcleaners-witness-update-2017-06-14
(Data on rep breakdown)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptoriddler/distribution-of-reputation-levels-verteilung-der-reputationslevel
Or
https://steemwhales.com/
That said you can still be a popular b**** even at negative rep lol Bernie
https://steemit.com/danthecuck/@berniesanders/dan-you-re-a-little-bitch
Decentralized in that you can ignore them but they can be harassing or get stronger and then be able to battle them on the same field. You can still make money though all they can do is downvote the post essentially and lower rep over time. You still get paid though basically avoids suing steem for copyright lol.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@anonymint/easily-help-steemit-avoid-copyright-liability
(Even if the copyright claims are invalid, Steemit could in theory possibly become inundated with DMCA requests, forcing them to censor the display of some content even though the content would still be accessible on the Steem blockchain. )
The Steemit Inc. corporation has the ownership of at least 59 million of the Steem money supply which is to be used for awarding STEEM POWER to millions of free signups. If this money was lost to lawsuits, it hypothetically could impact on the plan for driving huge adoption of Steem.