gaming the system.

I had a weird conversation with a friend on discord and made a weird thought. Would it be possible to game Steem? I mean the idea starts at getting burners for the phone number authentication, then a VPN for IPs and so on. My only thought is that steemit uses your private IP and not the public IP. In which case bypasses the use of VPNs on the site. Guess this is a weird conversation to put out. But is that even feasible to do?