STEEMIT DRAMA: What is going on in the Steemit community?

I'm relatively new to the Steemit community, so I don't profess to know all the ins and outs of the community and the histories of those that have been here, etc, but what I do know is that when I first joined Steemit, the community stood out to me as being nice, respectful, and supportive.

In the past 10 days I've noticed a HUGE change. All of a sudden, my feed is being bombarded with STEEM DRAMA, and try as I might I cannot seem to get to the bottom of it.

STEEM DETECTIVES, HELP ME OUT!

The first sign of drama I noticed was the dramatic "I'm Out" post by @craig-grant.

https://steemit.com/steem/@craig-grant/1-million-steem-power

After some digging it seems that Craig's posts were being downvoted by @fulltimegeek. The main issues seemed to be @craig-grant constant draining of the reward pool by self-voting, his promotion of Bitconnect that many believe to be a scam, and his downvoting others to get more rewards into the pool.

After the dramatic "I'm Out" post, it seems @fulltimegeek is no longer downvoting, and @craig-grant is back to posting.

When the dust had settled on that, seemingly out of no where, more drama reared its head.

@dan had posted two posts addressing critiques and claims by Ether creator in regards to EOS. This in itself is not too noteworthy, as I think anyone would want to set the record straight on their creation, life's work. What was interesting was that Steemit creator @ned flagged/downvoted one of the posts created by @dan! This is shocking to me! @dan has previously said there is no drama between him and @ned, but this flag makes me think that might not be the case.

https://steemit.com/eos/@dan/response-to-vitalik-buterin-on-eos

Then I wake up this morning to find this investigative post by @joseph! Please read as he explains the situation better than I ever could.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@joseph/an-open-ended-question-to-ned-and-dan

For those that didn't read the short of it is @dan downvoted arguably the most popular posted of Steemit @sweetsssj. Although there is much speculation, we do not know why. My guess is that @dan realized there is a flaw in the Steemit platform that allows for the same people to constantly be on the trending page, and he wanted to combat that a little. Steemit sees downvoting as legitimate as upvoting in the community; sort of a checks and balances system.

What is strange is that, around the same time, the very popular people's hero, @officialfuzzy was being downvoted by @ned! No one seems to know why, and I have no guesses as to why this is happening, but @officialfuzzy left us a clue with this comment, " Ned apparently doesnt pay attention to the fact that this post gives away more than it receives...

Thank God you have no control over me ned. Thank GOD i didnt sell out to u early on for double my sp (like u wanted).

And @thedonfreeman im not a whale compared to ned. I just do more for his community with less. He cant have me showing him up.

Keep downvoting me ned. I wont stop building and youll never shut me up."

https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@officialfuzzy/beyondbitcoin-rsvp-whaletank-hangout-2178-8-04-17-over-1000-steem-in-awards

WOW.. would love to know more about what happened there...

If anyone has anymore information on these feuds please comment below! It really feels like the beginning of a war is about to breakout in the Steemit community. Also, if anyone has any comments about why they think this is happening now, I would love to hear your theories.

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