YOYOW, TRON, ALIS are all inferior to STEEM at the moment. But the have the advantage of learning from steemit. Whales have been acting like this since the day I joined steemit and I've always considered it the Achilles's Heel of steemit. @dan is too much of a naive teenager when it comes to understanding the dark side of humanity. You can never expect a mass community to behave itself. You must make the right incentives. Currently the only downside to downvoting is getting no curation rewards. That's something many are willing to go through for making someone loose their hard earned votes.