No, that's two different people, but both of them belong to the same bunch. One of owners of randowhale is nextgencrypto and I think it is nextgencrypto who is behind berniesanders and a main actor in the excessive flagging. (If you confront him, please don't mention my name, or otherwise he might kill my account..)
Markymark (who owns the buildawhale bot) has the same attitude and I know that from several encounters with them. He and also other witnesses sympathize with the flagging, because they are directly benefitting from others not getting as many rewards.
The whole upvote bot business is build on extracting as much $$ as possible no matter the consequences. So far I found the bots upme, buildawhale, rocky1, jerrybanfield, postpromoter, appreciator, booster and randowhale that are closed parties (jerrybanfield is a bit of an extra case). Together, these eight bots take away around 10% of the entire reward pool, which is far beyond what users like you, sweetsssj and haejin make.
There might be other upvote bots around which would make their share even bigger. I believe flagging successful users are nothing but cheap attempts to get your share of the money as well..
Effectively, they drain the reward pool which makes it uninteresting for others to write, because they hardly get beyond cents in rewards. Some time ago I wrote a post about the problem with bots.
One big issue is that most of the actors behind these bots and the flagging are also witnesses. I'm sure there are other witnesses who run bots, but do that anonymously. I'd like to expose them, but I'm just a small fish. So, I thought creating a witness proxy account could be a solution, which aims to collect enough witness votes to force the witnesses to either leave or make their bot activity public. Maybe, on this way the pointless flagging (and also the draining of the reward pool) can be stopped.
My question is: As soon as @witness-qr is ready, would you support it by setting it as your proxy for your witness votes?
Yes, I am going to kill your account, mainly for spreading nonsense like your entire comment above.
I don't need to correct you with words when the blockchain speaks the truth.
Do you want to go for strike 3?
P.S. - Ignorant dispshit - take a look at the income to @randowhale compared to the rape @haejin is committing. I love how you open your mouth before looking at the data.