I am really conflicted about it too be honest.

You should be conflicted. I only learned about this tribe very recently. This is easily the most interesting tribe to come out in a while. I read the "whitepaper" and I knew right away that spammers and "maximizers" would be a problem. I'm interested in learning what the plans are to address this if it ever becomes a big issue. What happens if a big whale buys up a large amount of the token and starts self-voting or upvoting a proxy account? Downvotes by small accounts would hardly make a dent there.