Amazing work man!
It's only the relentless and disciplined actions of the Defenders of Steemit that will force these Reward Pool Thieves away. People will always try and game the system, and it's up to all of us to prove that this behaviour is not acceptable on our platform.

I'm surprised that you've received any criticism at all...
If people witness a crime, would they not report it? If people witness anti-social behaviour, would they not say something? People ignoring wrongdoing is almost as bad as wrongdoing themselves.

The reward pool is for everyone, if people legitimately earn their slice of that reward pool through engaging content and hard work, then that's amazing... if they earn their slice through dodgy behaviour, that is selfish. We all suffer.

Love this follow up article... it's great to know some impact has been made but we still have a lot of work to do.

Ah, as an aside, I think you might have missed some words out of the sentence about protegeaa.

Thanks for all your effort dude! I for one super appreciate it!