This is a great comment and is the heart of what matters, for me at least. @haejin has not changed one bit since he started posting on this community months ago. He was persistent, put out great quality content and for months made pennies for his posts. This is exactly the kind of advice that you'll find our community doling out to new minnows. His posts were not just a single graph and a paragraph of text they were often a good long video as well where he shared his knowledge and approach to TA. To top it at all off those posts ended up being spot on most of the time and made a lot of people a lot of money and brought him even more viewers from outside the platform. Again, this is exactly what Steem and the community always want.

I watched as his followers grew and more importantly the number of views on his posts grew. His upvote to view ratio was way off because he was attracting a ton of outside views to the platform (and still is). That is exactly the kind of high quality content that Steemit is designed to attract and wants. Then one day a whale starts giving him all of his votes and suddenly all hell breaks loose.

To me this is just another reflection of a fundamental tension that exists at the heart of this experiment where the system itself is promoting and incentivizing something and when that something is actually achieved and is not in line with what some parts of the community want the end result is pretty nasty.