he is rewarding himself and then using that to fight abuse

Bernie is very good at hiding under the facade that he is doing good for the community. I urge you to look at who abusereports is flagging. Very few accounts blacklisted by abusereports have committed abuse, they are almost entirely people who Bernie has beef with.

Though abusereports is not taking as much from the reward pool as haejin, the way he is doing so is far more sketchy. Spam flagging (mostly innocent accounts) is pushing a lot of people away from the platform and undoubtedly causing drawbacks in investment in steem. He also flags anyone who questions his authority or calls him out on his shit. So not many people do it.

Unfortunately there are a lot of people here completely oblivious to Bernie's abuse.