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-Most people don't create content for the money.
-It's allowed to upvote yourself 10 times a day, change the rules. (maybe an idea steemit)
-It really sounds like an error in the structure of steemit. In the end this is business and he isn't breaking the rules.

He is maybe an asshole but it's all legal. (It's also legal to downvote him to death)

Everything you say is true, but not many are willing to pump 100K in STEEM just to trash this guy.

So that makes him a legal asshole or law abiding asshole? :P