Yeah, this just shows that when profit equals power, it will always be abused. I myself am against the way the DHF is funded and that it exists at all.

Being a developer who the community feels brings value will earn more votes on posts. They could easily fund themselves handsomely just by posting updates. Instead they decide to create their own pool for easier returns.

That's also why it took so long to code in decaying rewards, creating the facade that Hive users voted for the current witnesses, when Steem votes are still in the mix. A lot of them... That's probably also the reason we can't downvote proposals, only upvote them.

If we could downvote proposals, we, the average user would have more control. Please don't try to refute my claim by mentioning the Return Proposal? That's just smoke and mirrors. I'd like to see the Return Proposal remain AND downvotes added...