I have to agree with you here, when originally I did not want to. I now understand a bit more of the whale concept and the situation that this has created for regular steemit users and content providers.

I, as well has many of Haejin's new followers, generally are not interested in the reward pool or the longevity of steemit. We only want to see Haejin's analysis so we can learn from it for possible future crypto profits. Many of us just wanted to defend him, without really knowing the larger picture of what steemit is and how it works.

So I agree, if Steemit is to prosper, some kind of change would be necessary to prevent abusive up-votes as well as abusive flagging, as currently we seem to be in a rather large snowball fight, with many of us having no clue as to why...