I am not sure why you are giving in and letting the bullies win. Don't stop publishing your stories: why should you let one person have all that power (not just to reduce payout but to stop you publishing). Ignore him, he'll get bored and move on. You are just feeding him at the moment.
It's really not the money that's my priority. Yeah, sure, it's nice but it's really not that. The fact that my posts got flagged when plagiarists and spammers are not only rife, but making actual money on here is sickening.
Original work makes too much money and needs to be put in its place but copy/paste from google is left alone?
What can I do about that? I can't do anything but post and protest - and that's exactly what I've done. I've written posts that has brought this to the attention of everyone.
You have also caused a community of like minded folks to rally around you, and if you do not 'crawl back into your minnow hole', and give them something to stand up for, you might well be the instigation of the effort that reforms this platform, and silences the censors.
Fortune favors the bold.
Be bold.
Always!
Thank you.
That's big... overwhelming. Thank you.
Yes, and it needed bring up. But what next? If you stop because of one idiot, he wins (he stops you making money from your original work) and all your supporters lose out. He is a worm, not a whale.
What next? We'll have to see ;)