I disagree with the term "punishing" but yes, letting our opposition be known and felt is the idea 😄

Thanks for the support!

And no, it's not hard to make a second account
But you need to lock your steem in some way on either account, so it will be more costly to do it this way.

To be honest this was more effective under the square rewards curve, and I think the reason @ats-david previously suggested actually rolling back hard fork 19. I'm going to consider the multiple accounts argument more. It was something we explicitly said was outside the scope of the project but it's becoming clear to me that support for this project may be contingent on an answer to this too.