One of the reasons I dropped out of the witness is the kind of talk below. "There is no way to stop them".  This isn't true at all, there was alongtimes when selling votes was economically too risky and though there may have been a black market it would have only existed due to the bad distribution model of steem.  The witness below insisted that we should support vote buyers because they have all the Steem power.  He will do anything to claw his way to the top and at the expense of steemians.  He does not believe the future of steem and I have the screenshots to prove that he wants to milk as much as he can out of steem as a witness before moving onto Eos.

![Screenshot_20180424-104816.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYbxci1zzAZHfiRwv9arCgBzEdZe2qN31j3W4RWkYoAYL/Screenshot_20180424-104816.png)

As for delegation, it was originally supposed to be launching with another tool that would be used for accountability. This was called negation and cork knows all about it but neglected to mention it.  Negation to delegation is like the downvote to the upvote.  Vote negation would have been used to nullify the SP on both sides. So if a whale of 500k SP wanted to mute the votes of a whale with 1 million SP (or other way around) the first whale could use all his power to negate the whale and the second whale would be left with 500k SP to vote with. This also has the effect of increasing everybody elses voting power.  The whales can remove the negation when they come to an agreement to stop voting or delegating whatever way was abusive.