All people are a mixture of good and bad and I, personally, haven't got a problem with that. I do, however, have a problem with hypocrisy.
You had your own private vote buying whale, but why can't BernieS, or anyone, explain why that's different from the public vote buying schemes?
The way I see it: quality isn't a valid argument because there is no quality control on most vote buying schemes. Scale isn't a valid argument because there are many people using publiv vote-buying to vote themselves up to $500+. Also, I understood that the services were for minnows, but dolphins e.g. kaylyinart use them to massively up-vote themselves too.
Steemit has problems, and it seems to me that demonising a handful of individuals, like mindhunter or even haejin is never going to solve the problems.