It's overkill. People are leaving. Steemit is dying. It's become a hostile environment. Exchanges will start delist this crypto. Poloniex just send out a mail that Steem will no longer be traded on their exchange. More will follow.
It's funny that so many whales go after 'bidbot abuse' which is mostly used by smaller accounts, while they keep upvoting crappy blog posts in their small circle of whale accounts to payouts that are multiply times bigger than sometimes good content of plankton/minnows that have used bidbots.
No one is going after whales, because you know, it's their platform. That much is clear.