Here is my snarky post that I will regret:
There is a message coming from several witnesses and whales that they are somehow saving the reward pool by taking it.
I will not call out specific names, because mostly it is people who are doing mostly good things, who probably have good intentions.
When you punish the abusers by taking the rewards for yourself, you are taking rewards from the entire community, those who are trying to create excellent content and those who are trying to scam and spam are equally impacted. Maybe consider upvoting other good Authors would be a better solution?
If you want to use your stake and position to earn, I respect that. If you pretend you are doing it as some type of service, it's a turn off to me.
We have the tools to fight spam and abuse, and they are upvotes and downvotes and curation.
