The community decides what will get rewarded and what doesn't. Most of the community is selling Hive as fast as they get it, so they have little say on much of anything in terms of the reward pool. Those that have Hive, have the most say.
The post you are referring to when you made this comment had 27 cents on it, it doesn't take a powerful account to remove this. If my 27 cent downvote is life or death of Hive, then we have a serious problem. You crying over 27 cent downvote on someone who even admitted he plagaized isn't the end of Hive or even any measure of "turning into Reddit".