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RE: Make Steem Great Again (once the 4th largest coin)!
The only way to stop whales from self-voting is either by a HF that prevents it. Or make their influence on the reward pool lower. The latter one is hard to accomplish because the whole idea behind Steem was that the one with the most SP has the most 'democratic power'.
Another way to think of 'democratic power' is that another whale thinks that this comment or post does not deserve that amount of vote. Total reward is sum of the upvotes and downvotes- agreed by all the voters. The problem is downvote (flag) does not have incentive (curation). Even a benevolent whale can implement his own downvoting policy if he/she sacrifices some curation.