But isn't that how Steemit is built (for good or for bad)? Anyone can come in, create an account, buy a $hit ton of STEEM on blocktrades, transfer it over, power up, and start off with a very high upvote? Steemit doesn't start everyone off on an even playing field. As to possibilities of where Hive account@ranchorelaxo came from:

1. Yes, maybe him and Hive account@haejin are colluding. However, Hive account@haejin's content is still good - it's not like it's crap and then rancho elevated crap.

2. Hive account@ranchorelaxo is some random person who has a lot of money and is getting into crypto (and STEEM) as an investment. He came upon Hive account@haejin's stuff and found it useful and either doesn't like anything else on the site or isn't interested in anything else. I know for a fact that there is at least one financial/investing newsletter that is pushing STEEM as a good investment (it's how I ended up here), and they SPECIFICALLY said to invest in SP as a long-term investment. It's not implausible that others much wealthier than I am heeded that call as well and came to steemit, and it explains why they would be interested in Hive account@haejin's posts, but not that much else. Their interest may or may not be in building the steemit community or in producing content. I myself started that way (put in money and leave it), but then decided that the steemit community itself was interesting.