My interpretation of the events last week were.. there was a 'scammer' who decided to come up with a post. It just so happened that was one of the posts you decided to share the wealth in the comments section @berniesanders.
Then @dantheman downvoted all your comments so the scammer wouldnt receive a payout.
In retaliation you downvoted @dollarvigilante as @dantheman was obviously a fan.
If my interpretation is right then you were both wrong, there are no 'evil whales'. Just misunderstandings. I'm probably wrong in my interpretation, I dont know the whole story. Please correct me if im wrong.
As for this post, It's one of the founders releasing some information. Maybe it is worth that much? I don't know, I've found alot of value in @dantheman s posts.
My downvote on that post had absolutely nothing to do with Dan or his voting. As I said in the comment that content has been posted a million times here on Steemit and IMO didn't deserve the payout it was set to receive, so I downvoted. Simple as that, nothing personal, just didn't think it was worth the reward or benefitting Steemit. @dollarvigilante is a great writer, just trying to hold him to some standards if he's going to receive such significant payouts.
Ok that's fair. Like I said I didn't know the whole story and was just speculating. I can see why you made your decision.
IMO, this really really has not been given enough attention. @berniesanders explained the downvote. To me, at least the explanation was pretty compelling.
The post that got downvotes was positively absurd. It was a guy who made all his money on steemit because of his well known name and because a group of whales decided to vote for him posting about how to write a successful post on steemit.
Now thats fine that hes well known. But you can't then go on to write a post about the "secrets to making a lot of money on steem" when your "secret" is that he youre famous. And to make matters worse, his "secret" was something that has been done to death as a post on steemit. Vauge, common sense posting guidelines that have been posted 100 times. ANd when they were posted before by authors on curation lists, they should have been downvoted all those times too.
ANd also, @berniesanders wasn't nearly strong enough to remove all payment himself. there were plenty of people who agreed that it was a shitty post.
i only have 4 postes in total .. just wondering what drove you to flag my testing post which has almost no payout
https://steemit.com/top-news/@bue/news-top
edit: I actually can't even take down my flag now anyway.
Maybe you should open your eyes and actually look and see WHO it was that provided the significant rewards to the post. It was not the many voters, it was Dan and one of his coworkers. So now, who is gaming the system? Thanks again for your clueless response.
Edit: Thanks for the vote, I'll downvote yours as well for making such an ignorant comment.
Edit: Well, that took you down to a 6 rating, maybe that's a little harsh. Too bad, some of your posts are actually decent.