I received a message from @endingplagiarism today, calling for essentially the end of the Steem Skillshare community. I have had issues with the concepts of censorship and self-plagiarism in the past. There is a concept in Common Law (so it is not shared equally worldwide) that one is innocent until proven guilty. A second concept is that of Due Process. Essentially this means that a person shouldn't be executed before having a chance to defend themselves.

Before I do anything, I would like to add a little context to the transactions made by @natulya21 to @milakz and any transactions between @saule.sara to @milakz.

Mila owns a store in Kazakhstan called Steem Mart.

The original concept of the Steem Skillshare community was to create the opportunity for members to use steem as a currency to purchase "skills" from each other. I know that these ladies were transferring Steem to Mila because they were buying products from Steem Mart.

MY FIRST PURCHASE IN STEEM-MART FOR SBD, Steem and Upvote

The idea of buying products from a market using Steem as the currency coincided with my view that it needs to be useful in the outside world for people to have value. I became involved as it coincided with my project to create a Basic Income for members.

@deepcrypto8 - Memo 101241249
It's interesting to see that there are A LOT of transactions to this wallet, over 26,000 Steem in fact. @digital.mine, @poloniex, @bittrex, @withdrawal-kr and then a few usernames.

It is evident from some of the names that these are accounts associated with clearing accounts for some of the exchanges. It isn't that money is being funnelled to some mastermind. It is more likely a clearing account for some unnamed exchange.

@digital.mine a Steem Skillshare promoter; an administrative post that helps make the community work properly. I am not privy to how the community is being run, but I know that many of the names shown to be withdrawing funds also handle administrative tasks. @daytona475 puts in a lot of work curating content and doing her work.

I have no issue that she gets better paid on posts that generally support the community. The same can be said of @milakz.

I want to point out that occasionally members of our community make more money making mistakes than when I report on essential topics (I couldn't stop myself from teasing).

The people who get the highest rewards are those who promote the community:

Who are some of the culprits listed in the article

Let's look at one of the culprits, in this case, crypto.lion. I am not adding the @ symbol because he is a minor, and I wouldn't want to upset him.

Obviously, he is the real mastermind in this plot. As far as @live.log, she promotes the community and is the mother of the criminal mastermind above. I doubt anyone in this community knows who Ma Barker is, but @live.log must be the modern-day counterpart.

I have no idea why some people are being paid for doing what they do, cashing out some of their steem (presumably to buy food), or powering down. Maybe the state of the world is playing into people's decisions. I know that the messages and post from @endingplagiarism will have prejudiced our sponsors @steemchiller and @shitcoiner and @steemcurator01 etc.

I would ask the following to consider this post:

@cryptogecko
@o1eh
@graciella
@huzaifanaveed1
@afrizalbinalka
@xaviduran
@chriddi
@abu78
@rahul989
@chichieze

I am using male pronouns because @endingplagiarism might be a male, but it could be a female. He has taken on the roles of Investigator, Prosecutor, Judge, Jury, and Executioner. He has condemned the people most active in this community. He has potentially destroyed this entire community with no chance of explanation nor way of remedy if an error had been made.

I have never worried about earning money on Steem. I frequently assign others as beneficiaries. Only recently have I come to the realization that by earning more, can I help others. I had to rebalance my delegations recently. It caused me to remove delegation support from the @steemkidss community. It is bad enough, I cannot give my two cents worth. When my voting power dropped below 1 cent, I had to deprive that community. I am happy to see that I am regularly starting to see one or two dollars a post.

(I got a big one there. Was it something I said?)

No, @endingplagiarism, I am not part of some conspiracy. Perhaps I get rewarded by the community because I try to post or comment or upvote every day?

What you have chosen to do @endingplagiarism (who gave him the power to do this), is to destroy a community, and potentially ruined the livelihoods of thousands of people.