This was back in the old steemit days in 2017 I refused to join in so didn’t last long there but I was invited to private rooms with this group of not whales but biggish guys, at least one who is now a witness, im sure more . They used to laugh at all the newbies and decide who to take to rep 1 and flag the shit out of them. Maybe cause the person had a different opinion or they just didn’t like them. They would find any stupid excuse to do it too like now they use ‘ over rewarded’ as a blanket excuse back then was trying to pick up on any minuscule plagerism like someoen bad used a photo in a post etc. They upvoted each other and just laughed and picked on newbies. Being nice to them in the main chat area and slagging them off in the private chat room. These ppl are just down right bullies. I can give all the names of people in that room and you’ll see they never got a downvote.