I have read the white paper multiple times actually and
when I saw someone responded to this, I figured it would be you @lukestokes, even before I looked at the username.
This was actually meant to be a compliment (rereading made me realize that it may not have sounded like one).
You are correct that one hundred accounts at 3 steem power is not a very big account, but you could easily outsource and pay x amount of dollars for people to make fake facebook accounts and slowly build up a following of a lot of micro accounts voting for them.
It may not make a lot of money (then again if the price were to boost up, the value on each account could add up to a nice payday for someone), but I believe is clearly not the way steemit was designed to be used.
Steemit has added a lot of features to prevent abuse, but you are absolutely right in your reply to mine that a bunch of small accounts most likely won't be able to do much unless they scale up their micro operations.
Content is really what should be making money and finding content. I think that less steem power could even be given (or none) and make peoples first post worth a little bit more in some way. Just an idea.
Exactly, it will be the great and quality content which will bring in fresh writers. why not give more weight to writers who have pulled more people into steemit based on their content? also aka the referral.
I understood it as a compliment and attempted to thank you but accidentally typed "Then" instead of "Thanks" (which I just edited). Sorry for the confusion.
That's an interesting idea... your Steem onlocked on your first post. Unfortunately, I think Steem is required in order to use bandwidth on the network to post, but I'm not sure how any of that works yet.