I have already noticed some hypocritical witch hunting taking place. Supposedly the post in question was plagiarized too ( I say supposedly as I have seen some accused and acted on before it was verified they were the actual author at the other site). This post was the beneficiary of large paid for bot votes and the disagreement was over being valued to highly.

I find it hypocritical they went after this person, yet ignore the *cough cough respectable large account holder facilitating the sale of these votes. They purposely walk past the mountains of greed and bully the pebbles of greed. All while feigning the moral high ground.

Ironically, the power players selling these votes that we are told is horrible then get their slice of the pie grown from the return to the pool of the downvoted rewards.

You just can't make this shit up.

I saw the writing on the wall when Dan began talking about the 50/50 split some time back again. I powered down about 3/4ths of my stake and invested it elsewhere. I also think it was timely that all these "tribes" came up to replace the denigration of rewards, although it seems a reach to me that tokens not traded elsewhere have any value compared to the plummeting Steem that is listed on major exchanges at least.

I believe they have lost faith in the common user base to soak up the supply and are looking to replace the masses with a new targeted investor group. But similar to the woman who monkey branches from relationship to relationship, they aren't quite ready to let go of the useful tools they are hoping to discard in the near future.