Or, we could fork, coopt the steemit account, use it to force a 500mv vote cap by flagging abusers, lock the ninja mined stake contengient on the current holders' cooperation, change the math back to what we never gave a chance to change us, and maybe we will see what could've been.

The way to monkeywrench the bots is by overbidding them.
Negative returns, just the opposite of what they foist upon the pool.

With the steemit account flagging abuse, nobody else should have to.
And, we could call it like the sfr bot and get votes for abuse fighters, too.
Much better than the misers at steemcleaners.

There are 80+ witnesses outside the top twenty.
We'd need some rpc nodes, if the fork was to happen those would have to be there.
Contingent on getting listed on the exchanges, and the size of the development fund we fork into super majority witness control, it could happen.