RE: How to gain favor with the witnesses...

You're asking me to comment on incredible complex transactions where I'm not privy to all the details.
IF, Sun used Steem he didn't own to vote in his own witnesses then, yes, that does look dodgy as fuck...But I think the whole sale could have been handled better and that a lot of these issues should have been resolved in private by the major players prior to going public.
It's clearly a gong show now.