Man, reading some of the comments and discussions on this post makes me glad I just pop in every once and awhile, yap a bit with people I like, occasionally post my own goofy content and then dip for a bit again, lol.
I guess on the plus side it's good to see that splinterlands is still around and there's still other attempts for more games to exist in this space, regardless of if the people running it aren't handling it perfectly.
It's just random players trying to misuse the rewards pool for the gain of the game's economy, they could just buy tokens themselves but want the hive ecosystem to foot the bill for some reason. Either way, sometimes I'm glad it's proof of stake here and not 1 account 1 vote as there'd be a lot of crazy going around.