Nobody said that explicitly but I believe that's the case. IMHO Poloniex did a lot of harm to the price of Steem, directly and indirectly. Ironically, they are losing on it too, quite a lot (They hold over 14M liquid STEEM), so their actions (lack of them) are beyond my understanding.

Delegate 100 000 SP to Utopian

Whoa, nice!

That's mostly because I suck at curation and I believe they will make a better use of it (especially that they are also supporting #SteemSTEM!)