Collusion around posts that involve little effort and give very little back to the community is sufficient reason for action to be taken. It is sad when repetitive posts, that may have taken a great deal of effort initially and deserved sizable reward for that effort, continues to receive such good favor even when effort is no longer required. On the otherhand, there are countless smaller players, folks who legitimately wanted to do something of real value to many of our smaller members, doing something that is time-consuming, unassisted .. but were pretty much ignored and gave up.

Thanks for the explanation Dan .. if there are whales using their STEEMPower to 'create' cash-flow via a third party in this manner, then it is definitely something that should be challenged!