Thanks for that

The path we are being led down is not helping Steem, Steemit or any of its users.

Some of what is going on here is an attempt to force people to go against their hard wired natural human behavior. Reciprocation is a hard wired survival tool.

Creating a new label ''vote Traders'' to describe the hard wired survival tool of reciprocation is an attempt to villainize, to provoke a negative reaction in others and direct that to the labeled.

Any violent enforcement will always produce more violence. Enforcement will not, can not, will never produce a positive outcome. This is very basic stuff I am saying. Its not even the slightest bit complicated.

I am certain that you are well aware that at the top of this Chain of Command are a group of professional reward pool milkers. The link below is evidence of the inevitable result of allowing such social structures to exist here.
$0.125207 -0.3% Steem Price
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/steem

Edit:
I find the threat 'less rewards' disturbing to say the least.