Hey sircork, just found this post. It's so funny. And sad.
Can you tell what's going on, you seem reasonable.
As i understood correctly, creator of the post complained about other guy crypto-p who said "hello, nice post, following you" or something like that and upvoted himself, right? (i hope i didn't miss anything).

Okey, i decided to make my own research. Checked his posts, damn that was long.
And i'm offended now! How can he say such things to people..

• "Hi Billy, welcome to Steemit!" or "Happy Birthday!". - That's disgusting!!

And i can't stand that! We should unite and stop that nonsence! How can such a cruel person exist, right?

• "Good night, following you ^^" - that.. i just can't... horrible! If some one wished me a good night, i'd probably die.

Then i found out that reasonable part of his comments are located on a new steemians blogs who don't have much followers and comments. Trying to build their own follower army and waiting for someone to come in and look at their content. It can be really hard to build your blog at the beginning. He followed everyone of them as promised, so i say it's + than -.

But then.. after a while i checked some of the next-lvl strong whales (business people who rock in investing or something like that and are on the next lvl of badass) with more than 150k steempower. And actually.. they upvote themselves a lot. You ask wtf? I say - yep! Each vote more than 80$. Why no one ever tell them a single word? I have an answer - NO BALLS. But insead you attack someone who never said a single bad word to anybody. You call that balls? Are you sure?

And now i don't even know what's good or bad. This huge post about that guys crypto-p with average vote around 2-4$ and now compare it with 100$+. Why do you care?

It seems that it's just a simple personal grudge against someone who has more steem than you schattenjaeger (no offense). I don't see any concern from you about decreasing of the reward pool or about community. It's clearly an attack because you want so, not because you care about others around you.

In conclusion. it's my own research, strict and based on facts. If you ask me - i'd say he is innocent.
But who am i, i've started on steem not long ago, it's for you to decide.