I've often found some find it convenient to impugn the integrity of others. The developer, who is also a witness, could have chose to sit back and let bernie take the heat. Instead he had the integrity to speak up and clear the air. You choose not to believe the guy who has a solid rep on the platform, that is your choice.

it's a decentralized system the developers don't control what goes on. the idea is to have mechanisms which allow the community to self-police. One of those mechanisms is when whales negate excessive rewards to keep the reward pool more evenly distributed.

the biggest problem here is that too many people are failing to understand how the system works and are expecting that some higher authority will step in and change it all. There isn't a higher authority.

There has to be willingness on the part of the participants to hear and understand how the system works.

I made the same mistake when I arrived. I thought that when there was controversy that the company would step in and resolve it eventually. Took me being told, there is no authority other than what the community accepts as standards.

This isn't the first time this sort of upset has occurred. It is the first time that a group of people are so slavishly encamped around one person and seemingly unwilling to learn how things work.