Yesterday there was much lamenting and weeping over the supposed mean-spirited flagging of poor little Hive account@sweetsssj by Hive account@dan.

Here's the first post I saw about it.

As I had already muted the poor lonely little thing a few weeks ago, I had to look at her blog to get an idea of what people were so upset about.

The first thing I noticed?

At least, after I noticed the ridiculous payout amounts.

Was that poor, sweet, innocent little thing had apparently been trapped at Atlantis for over a month.

Were they holding her for ransom?

Is this hand gesture some kind of signal?

I guess these photos are by poor Hive account@sweetsssj but she didn't give any attribution for the, very professional looking photos in this post.

It almost looks staged doesn't it?

I'm not a professional photographer but I imagine it would be pretty difficult to get a shot like this with all of the funky lighting from the slot machines.

Wow, how much do you think a non-alcoholic (because I'm sure that sweet, innocent little thing doesn't drink alcohol) beverage costs here?

Do these photos (and practically ALL of the photos in her posts) look like they came from an Atlantis travel brochure?

Or maybe they look like the kind of photos Atlantis would stage for advertising purposes?

Here was an interesting comment from Hive account@pal about this post.

Hmm, could she, perhaps have a little help from the entire marketing department at Atlantis?

Could you afford to spend over a month at a resort like this without someone comping you for lodging and food?

Maybe someone will post an explanation but there's also the possibility that something not so honest was going on here and the Powers That Flagged are being ethical and not exposing something shady that they took care of for the community?

A few weeks ago Hive account@ats-david wrote a post about allowing advertising on Steemit.

I hope he forgives me for paraphrasing it but, advertising is coming sooner or later, and it would be best if we get out in front of it and control it.

I'm wondering if Steemit hasn't already seen a month's worth of advertising from Atlantis and, not only did the community not see any revenues from Atlantis, I'm wondering if we funded their ad campaign from the rewards pool?

Look at the posts in a fresh light and decide for yourself.

All photos from the blog of Hive account@sweetsssj but I'm unable to say who actually took them since she didn't give photo attribution in the few posts I looked at.

If I'm wrong I'll issue a public apology.