RE: 💨 A Lot of Hot Air (and Another Dodgy Moderator)
Man, that's a lot. I'm relatively new here and don't understand many things. but as a decentralized platform, I think Steemit has many problems including the one you're talking about.
My main complaint is some things are not allowed to do, only if you are a newbie but old users can do whatever they want. for example, logging crypto prices. when I did it I got warnings but I still see old users doing that and making 100 dollars a post. I don't think it's fair.
some even use AI to create articles and make money. how is that possible? As I understand it is only possible if big accounts upvote them. so whales must favor some people even if they cheat. why is that? isn't Steemit decentralized? Anyway, I too wonder how to get favor from whales. do I have to be a relative or what? just asking.
The posts you're talking about will either be buying their votes or using their larger accounts to farm rewards. They'll openly admit to doing it (due to the history of Hive) and won't stop. It needs somebody with even more power than them to downvote until they stop. And that hasn't happened yet.
The fact that it's decentralised makes it possible. If it was centralised, the owners could delete the accounts.