TLDR: it's just me. When I was registering @gandalf was already taken, so I chose @gtg, as in Gandalf the Grey, later I got @gandalfas a gift from the nice guys.
But already figured it was something like that, mainly because we don't normally see that kind of pattern of transaction between two accounts. Either they have lots of in and outs or they have a very small circle of in an outs. A cluster of ins and one out? That's different, and worth looking at.
I'm pretty sure that I wasn't tracking delegation in that particular set of transfers, just literal fund transfers – but I'd have to go back and look harder at the database query I used to know for sure. My gut says that delegation has an entirely different type tag and I wasn't querying for that.
On a platform where there are money involved, there's a temptation for quick gains, that however that hurts the platform and those who are investing their time, efforts and money to make the platform great.
Many of them are the "whales", "orcas", and "dolphins".
In the end - they have most to lose.
At this point, I just see it as interesting to reveal patterns. No one else has been particularly interested in graph theory and the analysis of transactions in the blockchain, so I saw it as an opportunity to do something that looks really cool when I discovered that I had MongoDB access to the backend.
And it does look really cool.
Thankfully, I do so without moral judgment. There is one act that I find to be particularly pernicious on this platform and it is one that is considered socially well accepted: flagging. It's a mathematical waste of your time, but there are a number of people who seem to revel in the fact that it provides you a certain amount of power over an individual at a given time, even if it manages to violate the intent that you had in the first place.
Maybe that's an entirely different post. I've talked about it before.
There are lots of operations on the blockchain that I think are probably nonoptimal for doing what the declared mission of Steemit as a company and operation have said, but a number of those things have been done by Steemit as a company and operation so… Getting too carried away dropping judgment on whales is probably wasted energy.
There is a lot of active stupidity, however. Mainly because active stupidity is one of the best ways to motivate people to both join and oppose you, and if you can figure out a way to profit off of both responses – you've really done something.
There are a few people who have really done something.