RE: FLAG WARS - Where "might makes right" continues to rule
I commend you for remaining true to your values. People seem to forget that Steemit is simply a microcosm of the rest of the world we live in. It contains all the good and evil in pretty much the same proportions, sadly.
As we've discussed before the responsibility lies with the individual to take responsibility for their own being. Few do this, again sadly.
The whole concept of "raping the reward pool" is simply WRONG, meaning that what folks are doing is EXACTLY what the blockchain has been programmed to do. Haijin and all the rest are doing nothing illegal as defined by the code underlying the blockchain. In fact ned and many others behave the same way; just less offensively. Just like in the "real" world the more money and power you have the more money and power you can accumulate from others.
Haha but instead of taking ourselves out of an abusive system in real life we gotta figure out how to deal with this kind of stuff on here since we are all so in love with the platform!
The problem is that our beloved platform is owned by robber barons!
(Some of whom are really nice)
I'm sure you and I could figure out a solution but my concern is that the truly wealthy STEEM owners are not as interested as we might be.
So, like in "real" life we pick our battles. If we're smart we only pick the ones we can win. I'm still looking for ANY related to STEEM that "insignificants" like us have any hope of simply influencing, much less winning.
More specifically, around 100 folks own like 90% of all STEEM. (My stats are from memory so I might be off a bit). It's like me trying to influence Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, etc.
Oh, by the way, I'm an optimist, really! ;-)
More specifically, these stakeholders along with the top witnesses can literally write code to stop haijin from doing what he's doing; but the problem is the stake holders don't want to impose that kind of control because it would also stop them from doing what they're doing. Theses stakeholders are here because they expect to make money, a lot of money. Why would they want to jeopardize their investments?
PS - After reading more of the comments there seems to be a very naive notion concerning how crypto currencies actually work and how a very few profit by them. Understand that making money from cryptos have NOTHING to do with a social media platform like steemit.com. It is just one of many "services" sitting on top of the blockchain with the SOLE purpose of building "credibility" (i.e acceptance) in the underlying crypto. Think SilkRoad and BitCoin.