Do you think your comment actually worths $4.22 I dont think so @berniesanders ...
It is easy to blame others but it's hard to look at ourself I know after reading this you may target me and flag me and try to find any stupid reason to prove that I make shit posts and that I don't deserve and so on .
Now this thing may hurt your ego but I'm going to speak my mind and what I've seen is that you had your own voting bot known as @randowhale and @randowhale1 now your business model is/was more of a gamble, honestly speaking when I was a newbie I used to borrow 2 SBD from my friends to get an upvote from you and I knew that this is going to be a gamble as I would either get more than what I paid for or less than it.
Now here comes @minnowbooster which always gives profit and if by chance it doesn't we return the extra SBD so it is a win win situation for the steemians.
Now coming to the point of having voting bots, you have been here for a very long time have seen a lot of things on steemit atleast way more than me , infact I would say that for me you're my senior here ( You may or may not agree but this is my thought) so you know how steemit works , here if you're post value is not high you don't get the visibility, you're post becomes a dust and gets hidden in the pile of many posts. Therefore you introduced @randowhale a voting bot which will help the minnows to get the visibility that they needed. and so we @minnowbooster not only launched a voting bot but also made a marketplace for Steem Power which @ned had discussed during a hangout in steemspeak.
You're an individual and so we are , you're free to speak your mind and so we are, you can upvote your post so we can , you upvote your comments but we don't do that @berniesanders
Your motive for saving the reward pool is exceptional but the way you do it is very bad.
I'm not calling you a terrorist or a criminal in my next thought but I can't find a better way to explain it to you , a thief steals food from a shop and runs away, why did he do it ? Answer: He was HUNGRY , Starving etc now if the same thief had done some work/job and had earned the money he still could get food by purchasing it.
Having good intentions doesn't mean that your actions are also good and having bad intentions doesn't mean that your will also be bad.
A man known by his actions and not by his thoughts.
Now coming to me I honestly was an unintentional plagiarist in the past who according to you have raped the reward a little but I make sure to learn from my mistakes and I do.
As for the flag war with @minnowbooster and their users I would only say one thing and it is that steem/steemit is a decentralized platform doing such actions make it a centralised platform which only spoils the reputation of it which further reduces the no. of users on steemit and then further reduces the value of steem in the market which results in the less value of the reward pool which is the real rapping.