Nice one Jeffrey, welcome to Steemit! :-D

The thing is, as I point out in my article, there is no point in targeting someone because you don't like them, that will simply harm your reputation, and on here rep is everything. A bad rep would be disastorous for a Whale, they wouldn't just be able to start operating from a new account, because everyone would see them transferring their SP to the new account.

You will only get targeted on Steemit, if you plaigarise and/or spam, which is fair enough. I have seen people on here, copy and paste the same comment with a link to their article, on 20 or more posts. There was one where I lost count after about 75 posts, he got flagged, and rightly so.

The point is, the Whales get to influence behaviour, they reward good behaviour; which basically amounts to, post good articles, not copy and pasting without attributing, and not spamming.

The system will evolve and change as time goes on, and there will always be people who will be moderating content, some will have power, some won't.

We're all in this together :-)

Cg