The irony is that I started upvoting mindhunter because of this video https://steemit.com/hf20/@jerrybanfield/we-double-our-steem-power-upvoting-ourselves-every-181-days from Hive account@jerrybanfield.

I didn't have time to post and upvote myself so I made a deal with Hive account@mindhunter. He was effectively buying votes from me like the dozens of other vote buying schemes on steemit.

I started upvoting mindhunter's posts and had to upvote his comments when Hive account@newsflash started to notice and flag.

There was no ill intention from voting at the last minute, it was purely to make the most out of my vote.

This has been discussed in lenght the last few days and people can read my posts to see my stance on it.

If a minnow was doing this there would have been no flag and no one would be bragging about it, so this means large stake holder are discriminated, they can not use their steem power freely which is stupid considering they are the ones feeding the whole thing.
Ultimately the question we need to ask ourselves is : Do we want to prevent investors from making money? and is there a good and a bad way to make it?

My response is that everyone supports the system by default just by owning a share in it and so they should be able to use it as they wish. You have to stay powered up in order to profit from the system thus profiteers contribute to increase the price of steem.

I have stopped upvoting Hive account@mindhunter a few days ago because Hive account@newsflash was flagging all his posts. I realize there may be other better ways of supporting the community, however I didn't have time to scout for content and voting for Hive account@mindhunter was the easy hassle free way of doing it.

Hive account@jerrybanfield I think you are an asset to the community, what you have done for steem so far is amazing which is why you are both on my author and witness voting list. You definetely deserve the top spot.