That was five months ago. More recently, around two months ago he started attacking @haejin, a great TA teacher who uses Elliott Waves and chart pattern formations, who I had been following and upvoting for a month or so. This silent whale @ranchorelaxo started upvoting @haejin a couple hundred bucks per post, and I thought that was awesome -- as well as warranted, since @haejin's tips and training had motivated me to trade, and I made thousands the first trade. And then more -- so, providing value back to someone who provided me with value, made sense.

TA is fairytale nonsense for people who don't know how to apply the scientific method. No method of TA permits one to consistently predict the future movement of a chart.

Even if you find tea-leaf readings like that valuable, I fail to see them producing $70,000 USD per month in value, which is approximately how much @haejin is skimming off the rewards pool with his collusive vote ring.

But @berniesanders disagreed that @ranchorelaxo could spend his votes how he saw fit, and started downvoting @haejin.

I'm pretty sure that everyone who participates in Steem agrees that everyone can spend their voting power, up and down, as they see fit. The community will eventually kick out collusive scammers like @haejin and @ranchorelaxo.