As long as the good articles from The Atlantic (and many are quite good) keep getting posted here by regular participants who respond to other participants, I suppose it is okay for members of voting rings to lose voting privileges. I would hate to see whole publications banned just because of the actions of their paid supporters, when the same publications have willing readers who like the content of the publications.
If only there were some way for the publications to stop writing those checks, or somehow make them contingent on the "supporters" not spamming sites that don't want to be spammed... but what could it be? </sarcasm>
