If I was her, rather than trying to be a martyr, she should have talked privately to people like @theycallmedan , @taskmaster4450 (and many others people who are MUCH LARGER stakeholders than this xxxx.. Bernie, InnerHive, horrible person.) and to appeal to them and see if they could help counteract the effects of the horrible person, which I would like to think that they would have taken corrective action, and been the cooler heads mediating this whole scenario.
Yea, I think that the actual whales who truly support hive, should look for sharks like this guy, and do what they can to downvote these type of peoples accounts into oblivion, just as they do to the folks who they attempt to scare away from our blockchain.
This scenario is one of those sad situations, where the person is acting within their rights (voting maliciously) yet they really should be put out of our misery.
Go take a look at all of that persons profile, and come back here and tell me what of value has he produced and put on this blockchain? and then compare/contrast that with the damage that he's done.
Quite damaging to marketing, but it is the reality of the technology stack as we have it!
I think you are right and more solutions are possible.