Thanks @sc0ut for sharing in this post, you do touch on important points.

I was sad to see that @mitrado is powering down and leaving steemit because he cannot post without being flagged or censored due to a personal vendetta by guess who. Do you have any advice for someone in @mitrado's position on what to do to be heard on the steemit platform?

Steemit and I agree with you, is a very interesting social experiment. It is one, that is showing us the flaws that can be improved on.

But then again, what might be considered a flaw will be an advantage for other members of the community.

My best advice in such context, can be best summed up with this saying "Be the change you want to see in this world".

By that, confrontation is not always the best and least resistant path in order to come out victorious, especially in an ecosystem like steemit, at this point in time.

The game just got started and that's way I encourage to focus more one adding value to the community by indirect means and try to understand why this "acts of injustice" are allowed to happen, will only give you a good experience on steemit.

Do not focus too much on fighting the whale abusers, as it will only discourage and give you a bad experience of this rather amazing social experiment that we are a part of.

As @ronel just posted here - "Everything will be fine in due time.", so focus on the exciting part of steemit at least for now. :)