I do a little bit of cospiracy theory here: let's assume the platform is a menace for 1) other platforms willing to replace it, 2) everyone believing the “attention economy” must not be part of a feasable economy. Then, you send hordes to make the place unpleasant and drive healthy people away, hoping for the avalanche until there will be silence and the place will be dead.
This is why I suggest to resist, resist, resist! (Though myself am not contributing very much these days, but it hasn't anything to do with steemit itself)