Haha, very good analogies, @lennstar! Nice!
I do fancy steemit a lot, but maybe the feudal economic model should be adjusted. Why is voting power proportional to wealth? Maybe we need a better mapping that encourages participation and supports the middle class, i.e., tunas and dolphins (or knights and artisans^^), rather than accumulating wealth for whales (nobles) and voting bots.
I thought about a different mapping function that actually does that, I'll post about it some time soon.
The basic problem with all those voting schemes is that you can just create an army of bots sitting where the best point is.