>It nevertheless doesn't change the fact that your suggestion of the notion of @ozchartart being a random poster who got lucky is a straw man. I don't believe anyone has suggested it.

I actually said "got lucky or was skillful"

to me this quote:

>I am just a user, not an early miner, nor a witness, my involvement in Steemit came with posting. I have since spend hours not only promoting Steemit on the web and in real life, but also teaching people how to use it, explaining how to transfer cryptos, not only STEEM but also bitcoin and how to use crypto in general, from Steemit, exchanges, wallets, etc. For what reason? Because I like Steemit, and want it to grow.

and this one in reply to dan's sock-puppet paragraph

>So by this, does that mean that I am getting punished because someone who you don't like is upvoting my posts?
If that is so please sort that out with him and leave me out of your war.
And again, as you say "In my opinion he has proven himself to be a bad whale", your opinion, and again you try to enforce it upon others?


seem to imply (though not explicitly state) that he is just a "regular user"... also many of the @engagement comments in the earler flagged thread

also Knozaki's comment here:  https://steemit.com/steemit/@dantheman/why-i-flag-ozchartart#@knozaki2015/re-dantheman-why-i-flag-ozchartart-20170117t034601782z

>It it good that you address this issue but I think eventually every blogger will have his ups and downs. ozzie has a run, might have secured some whales supporting him, but that support might end anyday. so I think we could just see how it works out.

So yeah, thats the way i see the presented narrative.  There are some like the quote you mentioned, that acknowledge the whole friendship angle, but for the most part i think 

>In part, and as I said my voting generally reflects it, but also the small to nonexistent target market for the content itself as I said at the time. I've explicitly contrasted that with @ozchartart in fact. Whatever I think of or about @ozchartart's content (generally little in either case), I recognize that trading and charting is something that is proven to potentially attract an audience and a community of significant size. I don't know if @ozchartart is the one to do that, but his topic is at least viable.

This is a whole different topic (though i see where youre coming from).

Without getting too for off on a  tangent -- yes things like porn, charting, sports are far far larger markets.  But they are also far far far more satruated.  Small markets are easier to penetrate, and their users will be potentially far more engaged.

On facebook, im in 3 different Akita groups.  I think the total membership on all 3 is over 70K... the biggest has 33K members and more activity than steemit.

For a group dedicated to owners of a fairly rare dog breed.  

Now yes, im sure that there are groups about sports or groups about boobies that are much bigger, but theyve also been around for much longer.  When the 17 year old kid that started the akita world group did so, if he had started a boobie group, he would have had a much wider potential market, but a much smaller actual group because that potential market would be far more saturated.