Haejin isn't doing anything wrong though, and he has attracted followers through his own merit. I signed up on steemit just because i enjoyed haejins posting. He is actively drawing new members to the platform. Meanwhile the troll army is not playing by the rules. Flagging is intended for a single report, not to wash over an entire user, his postings and commenters.
I am totally new to steemit and have no idea how it works, but it seems there are flaws in the way it works. Negative trolls have too much influence. If haejin is taking too much from the pool and it is damaging the system, then that should be worked out on a platform-wide level so no one user gains too much influence. completely trashing his posts and attacking his commenters relentlessly is surely not the solution
@totally agree there @sandman0615
I was following @haejin when @ranchorelaxo decided to start upvoting him. I was very happy that someone I was following was being rewarded, as I valued his (@haejin's) output as well. My upvotes at the time were around $10, and the whale's upvotes were $200 or so.
When the -18 BS angry whale troll army started attacking, which they had done to me unprovoked months prior, I knew it was inappropriate and reacted. And was then attacked by those bots that the troll whale had created, including one which DDoSed my web site, causing several other accounts on that shared server of my web hosting provider (DirectNIC) to experience a loss of service which had nothing to do with Steemit.
Make no mistake -- it is very likely that @nijeah was created by (not linking to that POS) Bernie Sanders here. The recovery address is "anonsteem" -- and, the writing style (including typos) matches. Also, that account, which cost 6 STEEM to create, was abandoned a month ago.
I've asked my web hosting provider to work with law enforcement on the DDoS, but they seem reluctant. That's fine; karma works whether I push in its direction or not. In fact, it tends to work better when I ignore it -- like that guy who stole a quarter million in the 90s, and is now in prison waiting to be deported for stealing a hundred times that much (which I learned a couple years ago -- so, in that case, karma took 10-15 years; somewhat slower than that old movie, Flatliners, with Kevin Bacon -- who has been six-degreed with freaking everyone, including my sister!).
The "trolls" are 100% following the rules as laid out in the FAQ of steemit. You just happen to strongly believe they are wrong, but it's no different then those that feel Haejin is abusing the reward pool.
Neither side is correct saying the other side is breaking any rules IMO. Both sides are working right within the actual structure of Steemit's rules, while both sides are breaking commonly accepted etiquette of the site.
The attacker is in the wrong, generally.
That's from life, not some FAQ...