I think the problem is that while you technically can use your stake however you want, what they're doing goes against everything we're supposed to do here. We're supposed to upvote good content. Instead, they're using their massive stake to upvote shit and throwing the whole system out of whack. This place cannot exist unless people upvote good content that they like. If everyone just upvotes whoever pays the most, the shit is what ends up rewarded the most, the bot owners make the most profit, and the entire experiment fails.

There's no incentive to spend hours on a post if we know we're only gonna get a few bucks for it, while assholes in trending get hundreds for absolute shit.

Unless we fix this, we're all doomed. Steem will fail and be replaced by something that deals with this shit just slightly better.

Flagging is just bailing out water though. We need to actually fix it.