Yeah, I understand what you're saying about the 'delegate for a vote' groups, but I think it's hard when someone is struggling to earn on steem after a long time, and huge amounts of content produced, not to feel they deserve some basic level of income.

But the biggest problem with these groups is they rarely have any quality control, and it's for that reason I think they could be considered reward pool abuse. If someone is creating decent content (I see plenty of minnows like that who've been on steem for a while), and not earning consistent rewards, then they're going to seek out a way to try and find some consistent reward for their content... but those delegate for a vote schemes do tend to encourage daily post farming as they're usually one vote/day.

It's an interesting distinction, and I guess a question of where you draw the line.