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Yesterday the enigmatic Steemian @berniesanders (creator of the original upvote bot @randowhale ) posted a call to action asking the entire Steemit community to come together to flag the rewards on @haejin's posts. He put forth the idea that the rewards were largely the result of numerous fake follower accounts and shadow whale most likely operated by haejin himself.
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Another high profile Steemian, @themarkymark (owner of the well ran upvote bot @buildawhale ), did some excellent detective work and posted the results in the comment section of Bernie's post. It showed that even after some flagging that Haejin was due 6.7% of the current reward pool.
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As expected the community began to rally to the call. But something interesting happen. A flood of Haejin supporters showed up to defend their guru. They claimed his cryptocurrency advice is of great value to them and that his powers of market prediction are god like. They also claimed that his several posts a day frequency is what they need because it gives them up to the minute information. One other thing was abundantly clear though. They didn't care much about Steemit beyond their undying support for Haejin.
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Okay then, let's make some concessions:
One: Haejin is a great crypto guru with good advice
Two: He has real followers and many of them followed him to Steemit
Three: He really is getting a lot of up votes from real people
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Here's Why He Still Can't Be Allowed to Keep Getting 6.7% of the Reward Pool
It comes down to simple math. If Steemit had 15 Haejin's the reward pool would run dry. Wanna kill Steemit, I can think of no quicker way than to dry up the reward pool. So go flag him. Not because he deserves it, but because you love Steemit.
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