I stopped paying attention to Dmania a few months ago after watching the nonsense and hearing some of the responses from zombee. However, I think when it is Steemit-backed, there should be zero tolerance for plagiarism as it might put them in a bad position legally if copyrights come up. Perhaps this is why they should be careful with their delegations.

When it comes to memes, I don't think they have hundreds of dollars of value in them and I don't think a narrow group at the top should be making so much from them. They were using the delegation like a lottery attractor but, the game was most likely very rigged. If they had spread their vote much wider with a manual curator, they likely wouldn't have got into this mess at all.

I am not a huge defender of memes though as most of the 'good' ones I have ever seen get little more than a chuckle at best. I would rather see 15 lame memes rewarded 10 dollars than 1 lame one get 150.