What's sad is all he has to do is say "I'm an aggregator and I realize people are incentivized to like posts they think will be big, so mine get upvotes instead of the authors within. So like other aggregators I have decided to pay out the SBD generated from my Daily Hidden Gems to the authors inside".

He doesn't even need to apologize--he may not have realized what he was doing is considered unfair as steemit ethics are in their infancy and we learn more every day. All he needs to do is slightly change his behavior and all is forgiven instantly.

He saves face and keeps the SP. but instead he lies about his process and shows no interest in paying out the SBD, so we have no choice but to flag his posts until he changes his mind.

I said this yesterday and I will repeat. Aggregators are important and will be even moreso when the site grows. Thousands and possibly millions of people pumping out content, and the best work needs to come to the forefront somehow. But using your reputation and people's economic greed via curation rewards to rack up nearly 1k a day on no work while featured authors get a fraction of that is not behavior we should encourage.

I have no interest in shunning dragonslayer from the community, only wish to help him do a better and more ethical job. His voice and reach added to great authors can only be a good thing. Please just do it ethically and fairly.