Your post is worth nothing! Mine neither!

I could not stay away from the so called war of flags again. This is not my first post about it, I have made another one more detailed on the two sides that are fighting here, called Haejin vs Bernie - a battle of Steem. That was an analysis of the both sides fighting here, a pretty objective one and involved some efforts of mine in finding a solution about it.

Voters of a single man

These days I have seen on the other side, a post written by @jaredcwillis who did an investigation in how many people are voting for @haejin. His post was not appreciated by people who love @haejin and I can understand why...

He found out that there were 481 people who were only voting for him. They were not giving anybody else a single vote, but @haejin. It is like nobody is worth their upvote, not a single post or even comment on this platform than this guy. This is a little bit strange to me, because no matter how good you are, how many good predictions do you have, even if you can see the future for real, it doesn't mean that no one else is writing good content and nobody is worth your vote.

If all the people who have joined the platform for @haejin are voting only for him and nothing else, can we say that they really joined the platform? If no one of them is doing anything but voting @haejin, then they are not contributing to the platform, they are contributing to his wallet and that's all. Not posting helpful things, not engaging in discussion (except that about @haejin) then what do these people give back to Steem?

At first I couldn't even believe that there were real people behind this but then, talking to a few of them I realized that they have came here only to support @haejin and nothing more. Here I will include another short snap from posting my comments but prepare yourself, this is different than all those before:

That really got me badly upset, as I was reading that indeed, they find it natural to vote only for one user. You an read the whole discussion I had at that and give me your feedback. Please don't hesistate to tell me if you think that I am wrong, or if you have a different point of view. And as you can see, I did not flag for anybody for having a different opinion than mine, I accept that people disagree sometimes, this is something natural. But the following words got me:

Indeed.

I did not read anything worth my time here "so far". But i am still new to steemit. And in case @haejin will return, will put serious money in my votes.

Voting what makes you money is quite understandable ... or not ?

When he said I did not read anything worth my time here "so far". I thought about giving up the discussion, and I did it, for about an hour. Just closed my phone (I was commenting form my phone in that moment) and walked away... Of course I came back to the discussion after some time, just to see how these guys think and I understood. They are not feeling that they are part of the Steem, they are here just for @haejin, and feeling that I disagree with them, one of these guys even flagged my comment, which I upvoted back up.

Engaging in discussion with @haejin's followers enlightened me. They encouraged me to follow him on youtube in order to understand why he is so popular, so I gave it a try and watched a few recent videos of him. I think it is important to understand each side before taking decisions and this is what I am doing. In his videos he was asking for more support against the flags of @berniesanders and @randowhale and, to my surprise, they were listening and following his requests. They were making accounts only to flag @berniesanders, @randowhale (whithout knowing who and what those are) and upvoting his account on Steemit... Here are some screen shots from his youtube post:

The intent of this one is clear, not go to Steemit, make an account, join the platform, learn what it is about, engage with people, understand how the platform and the blockchain works, have a nice experience, and if you find useful upvote for @haejin. Nope, the indication is completely different than that, it has no intent to contribute to the platform, but just to a single user from here. Here is another one:

It is simple to conclude from this comment that he does not even understand well what that "Steemit" is. That made me sad... From this I simply understand that these guys are not part of Steem and even that they have all the rights to be here and take actions, they will not do anything else but supporting @haejin.

Can I use a little bit of mathematics or just some imagination to make a point from this?

In mathematics this is called limit when x goes to infinity, some of you may remember about it with joy or sadness while others may have never saw it. It describes what happens with the result of a function f(x) while x approaches infinity.

Now just to keep it simple so everybody can follow it without any lack of effort, let me explain a bit how I see it. If x is the number of people joining the platform to support @haejin and f(x) is how the platform is behaving depending by the number of users, what will be the output when the number of haejin's followers will grow huge?

Imagine for a second that @haejin becomes really successful on youtube, gaining over 1 million of followers, and as things go right now, what would happen with Steem, Steemit and the reward pool if they all decide to join the platform just to upvote his posts. Can you picture it? I don't say that this is a bad thing or that the platform is not supposed to work this way, but the outcome may not be so happy for anybody except @haejin.

Minnows that now are getting dust on their posts (less than a dollar or most of the times barely nothing), these will not gain anything. The rewards of everybody will decrease. Everything that will be featured will be market predictions of the same author and many resteems of the same platform. This could lead to huge changes, and not only about rewards, but only about visibility. We would see the power of the platform getting centralized around a single user and I don't think this is good, since we are trying pretty hard here to build a decentralized and healthy ecosystem.

This is just a vision, but it has a few chances to come close to reality, not only in case of @haejin, but in the case of any power-user which tend to gain majority of the influence of the platform and the war that is happening now is just a warning sign.

Please, don't get me wrong, I am not a @berniesanders fan, nor a @haejin predictions believer, even if all of them were true (which nobody ever can state because not even an over-advanced AI or a council of experienced economists can make accurate predictions always based only about a chart, but this is another topic). I am just trying to find the truth here and to vanish hidden facts from each side.

If you found useful this post, please resteem it to gain enough exposure and to make everybody aware of the current situation that the platform is facing. Here are more than your rewards involved, this is about the faith of the entire Steem. Again if somebody thinks that I am wrong, I encourage you to share your thoughts, I accept any kind of criticism and also if you have any suggestions or thoughts that you want to share, feel free to add them to the comments of this post. I will read each of them and I will answer to everybody, as I always do.

Thank you so much for reading, take care and don't get caught in the war!