If you do blog on these issues elsewhere, make sure to leave a trail!!
I was deeply involved in these issues about a year ago and coming back to them with this HF20 and SMTs.

I'm not sure that the required asymmetry between giver and taker - that happens quite naturally in real life - can ever be solved so long as everybody can create more than one account. It would have to be implemented as some sentinel policing activity such as vote-rings (cartels) but on steem there is little punitive action that can be taken, apart from flagging. Any asymmetry (or unfairness) balances out with just 2 accounts, afaics.