I agree with the points you're making and it's something we definitely need to be careful with.
Now that I think about it, and from your comments, maybe groups was the wrong terminology to use. It adds an adversarial quality to it to the comparison. Maybe a better way to describe it would be some sort of sliding scale in relation to the tactics that need to be employed in order to be successful .
I hope I didn't come off seemingly supportable of any form of voter nullification, because that's not the message I want to promote. My goal was simply to explain why I don't think promotion of steemit.com is the answer to the problems we're facing.