The current members of Steem Coop (which again, did not produce the above post) do not threaten anyone and are not even touching users posts.

We only use our own voting power, which is in our right, to downvote away what we consider to be excessive reward from comments that were selfvoted.

Noone is looking over anyones shoulder more than before.
All information is 100% public on Steem.

Without us publishing data and actively working against the issue we see, there will be no conversation and no change. So our work will continue.