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From what I can tell the conflict goes like this: The reward pool used to reward every poster and curator is limited each day. A couple whales (users with a lot of Steem Power) have enough power to claim a large percentage of this reward pool if they vote regularly each day. That results in fewer rewards for everyone else when used to a certain extend.

The user haejin posts up to 10 crypto market analyst posts a day and the upvotes on those posts make up a noticeable amount of the whole reward pool each day. The most value from those posts is added by haejin himself as well as another whale called ranchorelaxo, who mostly interacts with haejins posts on this platform. Bernie criticizes that and claims that haejin's posts are not worth the large amount of reward he receives from them. From there it's mostly a flag war going on, where Bernie flags haejins posts to reduce the payouts and haejin does the same to Bernies posts. There are also some personal insults exchanged between the two.

seems to me that Bernie is the underdog since haejin has some pretty crazy voting power.

I dont respect Haejin for never upvoting comments on his posts.

Personally I try to upvote as many people as I can to share the growth but obviously I try to retain as much voting power for my own posts so that I can grow my steem power.

You're wrong. I just haven't bothered to use all of my SP, yet. $450/post is no problem to remove, but, what's the incentive? Why should I do it alone?

Wish I could help you man, I don't have the power yet. Wouldn't mind some of those upvotes youve been getting, id put them to good use

Thank you for explaining that in simple words.
I´m not that long here on Steemit. But did notice that there is something wrong between those guys.

I really don´t care about those things right now. I keep on posting when I think I have to post someting.
The rest will come from it self....