i see, so xeldal, enki, rocky1, appreciator and tipu appear on post payouts out of the kindness of their hearts? interesting. he might not pay for their votes straight out, but somewhere there is an association.

ya, they might not be "bots", but it computes the same. he gets huge whale votes on every post. all i'm saying is, who would he be without those votes?

certainly poorer, as he is no longer earning as much nor extracting 5k steem a month since new steem.

I'm not trying to dis the guy, he seems a really good writer. i like his topics and I might even vote for him if he wasn't already paid an obscene amount. however there are a LOT of really good writers here. I think they deserve as much credit for good work as the same thirty guys on that list.