Thank you LibertyTeeth. I am so tired of this whale infighting bull crap. I had once believed we had a decent community here where everyone could benefit from a social media platform through content creation and curation. I've seen this same thing happen too many times with really great content creators where nothing changed in the pattern, content, or quality of their posts but they suddenly came up on the "attack list" because a whale started upvoting their content. The fact that some schoolyard bully can rally all his buddies to intimidate and attack someone smaller, and thereby take away their lunch money, is the absolute fatal flaw in the system. Monetary value aside, the fact that content is hidden or censored is even worse.

This is also the reason why I've been told steemit is a crap platform by some of the folks presenting great content on other platforms such as tradingview, yours, or even youtube. Most likely, it'll be the reason why I sell off my steam and leave.

@ned Steemit absolutely needs to provide neutral moderators and limits. Posts inciting users to attack other users due to perceived slights should not be tolerated. Downvoting a user over the perceived value of their content, value is always in the eye of the beholder, should be replaced by encouraging users to upvote other content that provides them value. If you're truly against the rewards someone got because it's out of balance, spend your votes on a positive value to another user who you think deserves it.