krnel has written many great posts and I have known him for a few years, and if whales choose to upvote him that is up to them, people disagreed with it and downvoted him heavily for awhile. It isn't a surprise that some people ideologically do not like what krnel has to say, while others like what he has to say. He was downvoted on posts down pretty low previously as you can see if you scroll back through his posts. Did the downvotes choose to reduce his rewards from 200 usd per post to lets say 50 or 60? No, they choose to ideologically wipe him down to 10 or 5 and in some cases nothing. So right from the start we can conclude they are downvoted because they didn't like him, not because of disagreement of rewards. Disagreement of rewards isn't taking away 90% or 100% of someones post.

There always has to be a top earner, a 2nd, a 3rd, a 4th, etc. Whether or not he was 1st, 2nd, 30th, 40th, 100th is irrelevant, what matters is what was he justifiably that rank that he was? Why did those who downvoted him do so? Where their downvotes "legitimate". Having legitimate downvotes based on what the white paper on Steem said has "disagreement of rewards" listed as one of the reasons, which is a vague nonsense phrase(and isn't an ideology based on Proof Of Brain either). If this platform is to be a better Steem we must get away from vague nonsense like this, it's subjective and not objective. Objectively speaking krnel writes some pretty detailed well thought out posts. He clearly takes a lot of time to put together long posts and they are usually pretty interesting if you like politics/news/finance/crypto stuff.

Your reply to me included a fact of being ranked 14 in payouts, sure. The remaining sentences were used to paint him as a manipulator, a liar, etc. Throwing out such conjecture when you do not know the person at all is irresponsible, especially since you have a lot of followers who will listen to your input(whether you like it or not humans FOLLOW who they perceive to be competent or who are competent). Reputation is everything on this platform, and you do not know krnel almost at all but will have a lot of people reading and taking to heart what you say about him.