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RE: How Steemit is infiltrated by abusive account networks
It's sad that Steemit's account verification failed so badly to allow this sort of thing to happen in the first place. There are ways to get their delegation removed from accounts to reduce their voting power and I hope that can be used on these. Then their lack of resource credits should reduce how often they can vote. This sort of abuse is very bad for the platform and Steemit should do all they can to deal with it.
In case of dart/tard it is very hard to fight them. They made lots of SP themselves and are not depending on the delegations from Steemit Inc anymore. You maybe could have stopped them in the beginning with this but now it is too late.
Many accounts were purchased through anonsteem. It is more expensive but provides an instant account ready to be powered up, you don't have to wait a week to get email verification, etc.
Nearly all of their accounts are created through the Steemit faucet. And regarding that they created thousands of accounts this way you can say that the registration process is broken.
I just wonder if the abusers were spending that much on accounts. There's not much we can do to counteract that.
It does supply them with lots of avenues to move funds around as well as provide multiple exit points, just like email addresses can be daisy chained to make tracing very difficult.