The reward pool is about building the platform - - -
How is he not building the platform? I looked at a couple of his post and he has over 6,000 views, lowest comment cout I saw was 398, highest was 800+, so he either brought a shit load of people over to steemit, or thousands of people find his information useful. I myself do not care how much a person makes if they are making from generic votes from the users and not buying votes or doing a lot of self upvoting. Look at bernies page and the amount of "Reward Pool" rescue post he has made and how much "Money" he has taken from the Reward Pool. he is not making these post for altruistic reasons, if he did he would "decline" payout on all of them. He makes these post for one reason and one reason only- they make HIM MONEY. And I actually no longer have a problem with that, I did initially, but people like his content and vote it just like people like the subject of this post content and vote to give him money.