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It could be any of the following:

  1. He's voting for himself with alts (@dan), such self-votes being generally frowned upon as against the spirit of the reward system on Steemit.

  2. He's posting and voting after saying in his resignation post that he wouldn't any longer.

  3. They disagree with the amount of reward the post will receive due to the upvotes of other people and wish to counteract those.

Could be any 1, 2, or all 3 of those reasons.

The story:

  1. @dantheman posted and instantly self-upvoted
  2. @abit downvoted to counter the whale-self-upvote effect
  3. @kushed and @engagement and @thecyclist downvoted because they don't like the author (I guess)
  4. @dan upvoted to counter the downvotes, but is over-weighted
  5. @smooth downvoted to counter @dan
  6. @adm downvoted to counter @dan
  7. @fuzzyvest and @thejohalfiles upvoted because he like the post or the author (I guess)
  8. @ned downvoted because he doesn't like the author or the post (I guess)
  9. @val-a upvoted to counter @ned (I guess)
  10. @goku1 downvoted for a reason which I don't know

Good story, upvoted.

Yeh...that is about right for me. Everything i read of dans ive always loved. Just didnt get chance to tip him for a long time for his work :)

This comment is great! The best I've seen in steemit. I had the same doubt as stellabelle. You explained to me what it's happening in steemit in only 10 points. Bravo!! Bravo!!

Do we really think the post is worth more than $30? Seems like it could easily go at least 3 times as high if noone said stop. It doesn't mean Dans post is bad.

(And I don't see any flags. I don't use Steemit.com.) Just my opinion.

Because they had some kind of power struggle, didn't you find it strange that as soon as Dan resigned the price of Steem took off?

That's because Dan's enormous brain was holding the price down.

No, I would think internal problems, remember we had flagging, price spiraling down etc., I'm not trying to blame anyone I just think this is a possibility, and the whales who did the flagging experiment are among the ones flagging his post. Maybe he didn't agree with them.

That's a far too rational response to my joke. Most people just reply with "lol". ;)

No, I didn't want anyone thinking I was holding something against someone. Ok LOL.

we really don't know what's going on behind the curtain......