Trust me I know, I knew about it very early on because when I joined in 2017 I was invited to a private chat group on Steemit chat it was full of the Whales at now make up OCD. Or some of them at least I saw them pick random Newbies from the chat and nuke them for fun to 0. They will try to give the impression they were helping new people join but instead they would just look at anything on their page that could possibly be an issue, like one pic from the internet and rather than point them in the right direction they would laugh about how to take them down to minus reputation and zero all their posts. They were responsible for absolutely loads of new people leaving back then. Of course because I didn’t go along with it and their ideas I got picked on and they put me in a private chat group and muted me and just took the piss out of me until I left. It was so childish and pathetic I couldn’t believe it. I’ve been down voted since for standing up for other people getting down voted and for posting on Steemit. I think to begin with I thought I could just try to avoid them but they became too powerful and they clearly joined up with some other people too and made hive absolutely intolerable. The only way you can go along there is by being a part of the thought police or pretending you’re part of the thought police. They even seem to have this idea that you can never cash out, even cashing out your own money seems to be against the rules LOL. I did actually question if the whole thing was run by the CIA to be honest with you and it’s a test run for a Big Brother type rule to see if people would go along with it or actually realise and stand up for themselves. It’s not looking that promising is it LOL?