I'm very sorry that you had a bad experience, but you obviously have enough insight to understand why many of us feel uneasy about such things, especially when someone is given an account by a whale. In fact, I cannot think of another example of this. Regular users just open their own account, so any deviation from that is uncommon and usually breeds suspicion.

Frankly @stellabelle this is evidence of only of your ignorance. In such cases you might consider asking questions and trying to learn instead of jumping to conclusions and making incorrect assumptions about what is uncommon or what should 'breed suspicions'.

I have created accounts for many people especially from the cryptocurrency community. They are all "regular users" (whatever that phrase means). If I were actively recruiting writers or others to the platform I would absolutely create accounts for them (which is not to suggest those I have recruited have not written some good posts, because they have; I'm just not actively recruiting people specifically for that purpose). It is easy to do, as a normal fully-supported function of the CLI wallet, and not at all irregular. It also sets up the account with the creator (in this case me) as recovery agent, which is convenient since I know these people outside Steem and I can easily help them get their accounts back if they are ever compromised.