I used to follow the person in question. The second party who steemit know as Flag warlord cos if you check his tags, you will see "flaggingisfun" as one of his tag. He and others are the ones trying to correct this bullshit.
The first party got a lot of supporters who justifies the rewards he is getting. Is really bad for the system and even Dan also downvoted the first party. All advice given to him all fell on deaf ear, the only way to correct the system error is flag war. I stood on the fence cos even my SP can't push a fly
Yeah... such are the speed bumps inevitable to be hit, given this is a totally new experiment in decentralization. No one perhaps could have foresee all these potential systematic weaknesses and prepared adequately for them - and solutions may be a lot tougher to design and execute once the foundation is set and all in motion.
Sadly, the flag war probably is the only thing that could be done at this time - but what is the outcome of any was...? Not peace and order.
And when you get people chipping in their opinions and support for one side or another, it gets pretty crazy with people getting hit with vengeance flags - hence part of the reason why I’ve tended to stay out of these dramas.
Wish I had some solutions to offer in regards to these matters, but they really aren’t that simple... :-/