Yeah, interesting situation for sure. I never quite got the flag wars thing, if I'm not onboard with supporting someone I just don't vote them. I suppose if someone and their friends have a big stake then they can still crush rewards, maybe that is where the flagging comes in.
They should be used more as warning shots on one post if someone is acting in a negative light.
Which is something that can be debated forever I suppose as who decides that right? Wild dynamic.
Was around him in the early days of steem. We used to interact in comments alot, he would comment but never really vote my stuff. It honestly looked like he was in a whale circle jerk the first few years of steem, which good for him. Sucks I couldn't get in on it lol.
Never downvoted him, just vote stuff on rare occasion it gives me a gem of data since I never really got support for him, which technically is me being a little petty but not a reason to down vote.
Like you said, you don't have to be happy with what people do. Its a dPOS system for a reason. If people don't like it, stake up. Become your own whale. That's what I'm working toward :-)
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I too have had to watch whale circle jerking on Steem for years, because basically us small fry could do nothing about it - not even speak up without fear of being slammed.
Now we have some whales who aren't circle-jerking and are actually trying to mitigate it, the situation on Hive is so much better.
You know when you have multiple accounts of your own to feed and need to vote those big players?
Yeah, comments only for you son!
Hahaha, that makes way more sense now!
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It was called the "Steem Guild." I wrote a post about my thoughts on guilds and that guild in particular. What they were doing was ridiculous and after Ned withdrew his stake from their controlled voting trail (after they had made themselves little whales with it), they just continued to vote for each other's garbage. Then, after they all acted like they were in it for the long-haul and one of them claiming he wasn't selling Steem "until $100"... they pretty much all left. This guy stuck around and kept doing the same thing.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a few of them come back to "milk" some more.
It's sad to see that this kind of stuff still happens (and to be clear, it's NOT just this guy or that group). This has been holding back real content discovery and reward distribution for five years. It may just be the natural result of stake-weighted voting but it's certainly preventing the "best" or potentially most "viral" content from rising to the top and attracting attention. Instead we just get mundane and/or repetitive posts from the same people day after day, week after week. It's not promoted. It's not read. It's not bringing anyone in. It's just growing the wallets of some users. And it doesn't matter whether it's Leo, Hive, Steem, or any other community or platform.
Anyway...I certainly don't feel bad for him. He and his buddies were not only socializing their "costs" of curation on Steem, but they were also mostly dicks about it. And Ned didn't care either. They were handsomely over-rewarded for doing what every other user did. And when their milking train ran dry, they just left. There's nothing for them to cry about now. Just take your win and go.
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Man, can't believe how many years ago that was at this point. Definitely a hefty sum was had.
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