Thanks for taking the time to reply - I appreciate you're busy and I didn't expect you to. You're a hard man to ever disagree with.

This experience has left me with a rather bitter taste in my mouth and I'm pleased to see that future decisions like this will be approached differently, although in this instance, it appears that the heavyweight bullies have "won", irrespective of whether it's the "correct" decision or if the same decision would have been made via a route with more integrity.

In response to my disagreement (vote) that delegations should be stopped (as with others who opposed this point of view), I had supporters of the movement challenging me - akin to the "democratic" polling stations previously experienced in countries like Zimbabwe where people would stand outside with their machetes.

This naturally discourages others from voicing their unhappiness with the approach and as you say, one particular whale has continued to upvote his supporters which encourages them to continue this behaviour (didn't President Mugabe do this too?) So if a vote is ever proposed by @blurtofficial, I suggest that this kind of provocation / bullying (through lack of better word) is prohibited.

I'm afraid that I'll always be opposed to self-voting (so perhaps I can disagree with you on something). Whereas upvoting services only benefit the upvoting service and the user being upvoted (at least 2 people benefit with this approach), a self-upvoter only ever benefits 1 person. No matter what excuses they have for doing it (they upvote 400 other posts before upvoting 100% of their own content), it's a selfish act and to me, that's contradictory to the idea of community.