Excellent post. I also saw this unraveling but with not much weight around here I did not post about it or involve myself too much in the posts discussing it. It's become almost like a 'snitch out who you think is getting more reward than you think they deserve'.

There are many people getting reported. Even poor little unknowns which are only scrapping cents from the reward pool. One large factor is that minuscule nobody's are sucking up to these whales and stroking their egos.

As stated in your posts and in the comments. It will not end well. Countless identities will simply take their work elsewhere and the reputation of steemit will be very tarnished. More than it already is. From the outside looking in, it's a whole lot of infighting.

Communities need to come soon. I think with that some of these kinks will be ironed out. The positive will also come as healthy competition between communities and the whales that support them. It would be a very shameful act for a whale to be meddling in the affairs of a community that they don't have any association with.