Thanks for the shout out (I'm Canadian, I just lived in Korea for a really long time). I actually try to post and probably spend too much time doing it.
I follow around 5 of these authors and consistently like the content of tarazkp and slowwalker. Slowwalker doesn't really engage people on that account, but I like his pictures of Korean temples and nature (maybe his posts seem extremely high, but he is now a whale and I think organic).

I'm only on that list because I use bidbots. 590 a week sort of looks bad, but I don't make anything near that and if we look at Steem as a mooney making thing (especially at this stage and these prices), it just doesn't make any sense to be Steeming.

My average weekly earnings are about 75 Steem and I've been counting since I started posting every day in January 2019. That 16.28 SBD or 13.16 USD a week. I probably spend at least 90 minutes average per post when I include research, photos, writing, editing, responding to comments. That's around 9 hours a week or less than 2 dollars an hour. I can easily do freelance work (that I enjoy) for around 40 dollars an hour.

If I consider I paid around 3000 dollars for my Steem and I engage others too, it gets worse. Obviously, I'm not writing posts for the money. I could make more money collecting cans and bottles, lol.

I know some of the community doesn't like it, but I'll follow the consensus and the consensus obviously supports it if there isn't abuse. Last I heard @theycallmedan was saying he won't target posts less than 200SBD after HF21.
OCD and is great. and I like OCDB the best and hope it gets a lot more stake after HF21 or at least some copy cat bots with different caps or metrics or whatever. I wouldn't miss most of the other bots. However, the new ones that eat up scot-tokens and vote for Steem are an interesting concept. Thinking how Steem would work if everyone just got 10 cents a post in an interesting concept.

Him and tarazkp are the only ones I read that are up there just cause of ocdb. It's pretty sad that not many more authors use it which would mean the max bid would be lowered and it wouldn't have this big effect on the top author payouts. I'm hoping demand and interest will increase with HF21.

Other than that I recommend checking out the OCD compilation posts, all of the rewards go towards the curators who find the posts.

I actually agree.  He is great and I enjoy him as well, I also often read and enjoy Tarazkp who loves to write and also engages with others.

Wow, that is a big difference, but you only have 7.982 SBD in your wallet. I do not think it will ever dawn on any of the large stake accounts what they are actually doing to themselves and I do not think it matters anymore. Good users will eventually overtake the bad users.

which ones are his?

yea for ausbitbank is downunder and it appears bernie is in the US ... hard to be one entity that way 
or the ultimate definition of split personality?

Who is to blame is obvious. Stakeholders are almost exclusively to blame. Their actions inform the community behavior. 
I mean i wrote about it few days ago. 

The question is will the community ever revolt against fuckers like the guys on this list.
I think they wont. People just arent brave and/or dont give a damn.

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By my very own whale?

Who are you again?

It's sort of obvious that stake wins at all cost, even to those committed to producing quality content because in the end it all effects the reward pool.  There's so many follies involved it's hard to discern the difference sometimes, even some who write quality content have a sock who isn't...so there's that.  

Herein lies the problem over the long run though and that's cutting into the rewards earned to try and get a handle on one problem while simultaneously ignoring the same problem from some because they hold stake....and by doing so it will serve to engorge the other half engaged in the same behavior.  In all due honestly I don't see any legal argument for that being the answer.  The problem is they have been making their own rules unregulated for the last couple years and getting away with it that it has embolden them to think they can continue on this path.  Eventually it's going to catch up to them, maybe this hardfolk 21 will serve as the much needed wake up call they will need because now according to yourself, as a dolphin, you are going to wake up practically worthless....though you may not do anything about it there may be plenty of others who finally will because those people also have significant weight in the game.  One guy wrote that a post will now have to be worth sixteen steem, equivalent to a three dollar post to get their reward....now I don't know if that's true but lets just assume he is right.  Now we aren't talking about one or two cents here we're talking about three bucks, name any company in this world where someone earns three bucks and someone else has a right to take that from them....it just doesn't exist, if true it's pushing the boundaries.  Just think about that for a minute....three bucks is almost half of the federal minimum wage  in this country....they don't let restaurant owners or agricultural workers get shammed...if a waitress doesn't make the federal min. wage in tips the  owner has to make up the rest, a farmer can pay per bushel picked but the amount that can be picked in a hour has to equal the federal min. wage.  The point being if the owner of a restaurant or a farmer just says you are just plain shit out of luck because you didn't make min. wage that doesn't cut it....if they are cut by say three bucks that's taken seriously....yes three bucks is all it's takes for the feds to come down and say they worked for it, they earned it, now you have to give it to them.  Even though this site is not an employer the fact still remains is those people made three bucks and someone else took it.  It just doesn't work like that, you just can't say to people if you write you can earn then take it, it's as plain as the nose on one's face.  If this is all true it surely is pushing the boundaries, given the stake involved this time and whom stands to lose quite a bit, it may just be the catalyst that will bring federal regulators down looking at the operation of the platform....and I highly doubt they are going to fall for "well some people paid in to abuse the platform while others didn't"....nah, that's not going to fly.