Flag wars is the favorite hobby of the bored whale. ;) I´m also very concerned by the increasing number of 0 payout I´m seeing here, when scrolling through Steemit. The short term problem with this is, that motivation is at risk -how long will a new user keep on posting, when he sees that he is producing a big 0 with a blog post that took him 1 hour to write, while watching the big fish earning insane numbers for a stupid picture of their snow covered trash pin in their backyard!
I think we´ll need several processes in place, that will guarantee at least a tiny amount payout for newbies - otherwise this game will soon become dirtier than it is already...