For months the Steem community has suffered a bitter war involving mostly two Steemians, one aggressive content creator and one whale diligently upvoting said content creator, reaping vast rewards from the Steem reward pool.
The situation has resulted in a bitter flag war, as well as many other Steemians trying to suggest solutions which could end the situation and bring peace back to the community.
Personally, I am not sure where I stand in the situation as I think that the design of the Steem rewards mechanism allows this situation to happen and as such, as left-minded as I may be, it is difficult to hope that every human Steemian will be concerned about their peers and avoid being greedy taking too much from the pool. This doesn't mean I agree with the situation, definitely not, but when it comes to humans at times it is difficult to be an idealist and hope they will do the right thing.
Hope, after all, is for adolescents and adults who wish to get laid on the weekend.
Yet, the possible solution to the problem is simple. Simple but arguably arbitrary.
Steem is ruled by its witnesses, specifically the Top 20 witnesses, who represent all Steemians as our governance. Every Steemian can vote 30 witnesses and the 20 highest ranking ones, by vests voted for them, are our governance as per Steem(it)s FAQ.
The Steem blockchain requires a set of people to create blocks and uses a consensus mechanism called delegated proof of stake, or DPOS. The community elects 'witnesses' to act as the network's block producers and governance body. There are 20 full-time witnesses...
This means that 20 Steemians, representing the wider Steem community decide democratically over the rules implemented on the Steem blockchain, and thus also the possible Steem reward pool, the pool each Steemian shares and can earn from.
In order to avoid that any Steemian could possibly rape the pool and earn large shares representing up to several percents of the pool every day, it takes only one new rule, a rather simple rule even: limit the maximum earnings of each Steemian on a monthly (rolling) basis.
I understand that this would be a controversial and arbitrary rule but when looking at the average earnings and the highest earners, not many Steemians regularly earn more than $1,000/day ($ Steem rewards, not US$, thus complete with integration of the Steem price feed).
Only the most prolific content creators, and one or two bid bot addicts, actually surpass that for most people rather decent payday.
As such I propose the simple solution that the Steem earning/rewards mechanics is expanded with a limitation of maximum $22,000 rewards/30 days (based on a 5 days working week).
Any rewards upvoted exceeding the monthly cap can whether be automatically returned to the curators or burnt to 
Obviously, I understand that rule can easily be circumvented and those who really want to, and can thanks to consistent whale support, could easily create multiple accounts.
Most people will not though because first, and foremost, they will not exceed the monthly cap and second, for many people the maintenance of a second account is too much hassle.
Those who do, make themselves an easier target for the flag warriors by mere virtue of being a smaller account than is the case now with the largest ones. Thanks to the valiant database diggers and blockchain watchers the Steem community has, it won't be long before they show up on 
Steem and Steemians will be the winner because the pool will have one new, small, additional protection and be available to more different Steemians, without many hogs and nobody will possibly be able to claim more than $1,000 in Steem rewards/day thus not in a position to drain the pool. No matter how many bid bot votes they buy, no matter how large and SP powerful their circle jerk is, o how actually awesome and viral their content is.
Most of all, the curators now fighting to minimize the abuse can return to curate the great content submitted to the community and this flag war can, finally, stop. And most of all, ridiculous offers trying to push people to also share with the community, such as this one, are not needed anymore.
