I think its a flaw on the platform that whales (who already have excessive amounts of money) are preventing creators from developing the financial independence that they have already achieved because they feel our rewards, for posts that we put a lot of work into are "excessive"
I know how the platform works, there are just certain parts of it that I think are bad because they encouraged an entrenched hierarchy based on wealth
The fact that someone who has a lot more money than me can decide that my earnings are "excessive" seems totally philosophically backwards to me, protocol mechanics aside.
After I am done with my book posts I will stop posting here regularly because of this.
So making over $100 per post for ages was not enough? Your posts were not zeroed and you still made more than most. How many of your posts were downvoted by smooth? He's told you his reasons. I guess haejin will just move on to vote up someone else and you were fortunate to benefit from his vote that has nothing to do with post quality or what you may have done to build Hive. Note that others get the same downvotes and accept it as 'part of the game' as they still do well. It's not about knocking you down. That's what I think anyway.
I don't want you to leave, but maybe accept you've been lucky.