And by the way - if one of the most experienced Steem users and #1 witness @gtg is flagging your posts, you should know that you're doing something wrong.
steemate my impact there. My 100% VP vote in many cases affects less than 1% of potential payout.Just to be clear: I'm downvoting some of @chbartist posts because I disagree on rewards (obviously that's my subjective point of view), I wouldn't overe
I'm not a fan of such content.
But I'm not a fan of vote selling services either.
And here's the thing:
we can vote for what we like to make it to the trending using "wisdom of the crowd"
XOR
we can sell our votes.
We can't have both.
@itstime is making a very good point. There are no clear guidelines and investors that are not familiar with Steem might be confused.
If there's a shooting range with toys to win, and you don't have clear limits, I'm going to take all the toys with me. Why? Because I like toys. Or because I to shoot. Or both.
You really don't want to scare away your customers by randomly banning those who are winning (good at shooting or maybe just lucky today). Putting general limits would be more healthy and cause less drama.
Does the wisdom of the crowd work with self-voting, circle-voting and stake-biased votes?
He did and we're actually working on that.
But regardless, I learned a lot from this encounter and had a chat with @chbartist.
I'll handle other encounters like this in the future differently.