To haejin paying himself:
I'm about 90% positive that haejin didn't start upvoting himself until the flag war began.
Payments are based on the amount of SP used in voting. Haejing picked up one on the largest whales on the platform as a benefactor. A large % of his rewards come from the SP of ranchorelaxo who invested over $1MM into steam.
When the flag war began he was not a whale, he had apx 8k SP. His upvote was worth about $15.
His community rallied together to delegate SP to him. He has since used the SBD he earns to buy more SP and has increased his voting power from that.
His own votes have been primarily to counter the downvotes and to downvote the bad actors on the steemit platform.
This war was not started because haejin was over rewarding himself.
OK - thanks for the info!
Thank you for the conversation.