Totally agree with this post...Help and support each other and the world as a whole--a better place...
creative job @berniesanders, thank you for sharing.

Very good thank

I understand that haejin has invested a lot of fiat money here on steemit and hence tries to make the good profit out of it. I guess he is the only person having the reputation 79. Downvotes doesn't seem to prevent him from making what he want. I thought he is the most powerful guy here but later on I found that some inert accounts like @steemit and all holds unimaginable amount of steem power. Would someone who read this comment tell me in what way those big accounts are helpful for us? Are they delegating SPs to newbies? I don't really know it.

Congratulations @berniesanders!
Your post was mentioned in the [Steemit Hit Parade](https://steemit.com/hit-parade/@arcange/daily-hit-parade-20180426) in the following category:

* Pending payout - Ranked 2 with $ 637,41

I never understood the war on @haejin until recently. I have only been a member of Steemit for almost four months (111 days to be specific) and I have been trying my absolute hardest to succeed on this platform by writing quality content and giving back to the platform through upvotes, resteems and encouraging comments.

I am trying to be one of the good guys, one of the few who are writing content to try and improve this place. I am not publishing photos of flowers with no captions and spending $500 on bots to get them to trending. Or writing spam pieces like Jerry Banfield is.

And then yesterday I received my first Haejin flag. I am not a power user, I am not rich and my posts only recently started making me $1+ thanks to some great community initiatives like @teamaustralia who have helped me immensely.

Haejin claims that he never downvotes for no reason. I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post titled, [Proposal: rename Steemit to Haejinit](https://steemit.com/steemit/@beggars/proposal-rename-steemit-to-haejinit). I didn't attack Haejin, but I didn't sugarcoat the damage he is doing to this site. Well, Haejin flagged it.

I only just reached the 49 reputation mark on Steemit and flags from Haejin hurt for a plankton like me. And I thought it was completely unjustified, Haejin censored a post that wasn't favourable to him and didn't even have the audacity to write a comment explaining why. 

Are you aware of an account called @starjuno ? They then went and flagged a bunch of my comments on the post as well as flagging comments I have left on other posts. This account seems to exist to resteem and upvote Haejin's content, is it a Haejin bot and are you aware of it?

Do you have any advice for me @berniesanders ? What can a newbie to Steemit do to stop being brigaded by the likes of Haejin and his bot accounts? I don't know what I did wrong other than poke fun at the rampant abuse. Is this what Haejin wants, to silence people?

I won't let it discourage me, but I wish there was help out there because I have spoken to others who have been flagged by Haejin and associated accounts before and for seemingly no valid reason.

How many people has Haejin pushed away from this platform because of flagging? It's damaging and in the long-run, it'll damage this platform and stop it growing.

The solution is to FORK Steem, build a half decent, better version of Steemit and LEAVE OUT the stake of all the greedy, scumbag, liar, leeches, along with a significant proportion of "Steemit's" stake. 

I wonder if you see yourself as one of those who might best be left out Bernie. Your behaviour in the past cannot be forgotten.

I have a solution for situations like this.   

We create a web app that users can SteemConnect to.  If their account has a reputation over 55 and they have at least 1000 SP they get a vote on what to do in a situation like this. (That should limit gaming the system too much)   If the majority of those Steemians feel that the problem should be dealt with then the Witnesses and other high powered accounts will be asked to carry out systematic flagging to limit the abuse as much as possible instead of turning a blind eye.  

If the witnesses don't carry out the communities wishes then they risk having witness votes taken away.   

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