Everyone else has weighed in and since I have been commenting on the situation, I decided to make a post.
Who's Haejin?
The scoop is if you have somehow managed to miss the debate. @haejin is an account which posts trading analysis, some say it is great, others say it is bad. @haejin posts many times a day and he receives the vote of a whale on each post. @ranchorelaxo who upvotes him at 100% and only upvotes haejin. There is been much emotional debate, flagging and comments cheering and jeering on both sides.
For me the question has become how do we get a stradegy together for reviewing and addressing the situation. Let's talk about it.
Should Ned fix it?
Calling out to Ned to fix this doesn't make sense to me. Ned should not be the “boss” of the community, I would prefer if they (SteemIt, Inc.) focused on the blockchain (Steem) and stay out of the business of community. We don't need him to act as a centralized authority.
What I do wish we would work on is a community based way to gather consensus and work through issues in the community. We have posts and votes, surely there is a way to tag community issues for comment and action discussion.
The community will likely have to get mad enough to come together in some way in order to slow Haejin. I flagged him for a while and him and his whale downvoted every open post I had. This is a big stake problem that can only be solved by team work or other large stake investors or a community organized effort.
I am watching the situation to see how it develops, but I am not overly upset by it.
Another thing to remember is that the person who is upvoting Haejin is a different whale account https://steemit.com/@ranchorelaxo although I dislike the way he is treating the platform and the community he can not allocate (via his vote) more than his stake. Anything beyond that Haejin is getting is coming from those who upvote his work for whatever reason - possibly they either like his work or want the curation rewards.
This an opportunity for us to understand our weaknesses if and when we were to get large investors, it has provided a window into how easily the site could be taken over by anyone with enough money to buy in.
This is a big stake issue that can only be solved by team work or other large stake investors or a community organized effort.
Here is what Haejin will be earning this week..
*data pulled 2/3/18 = using steemviz.com and should represent 1 week's pending payouts at the time of this posting.
What do you think we should do? This post is not about whether or not you think his content is good. You can choose to talk about it,but I will not engage, it isn't the point.