The bot looks at behavior of all accounts, regardless of SP. So minnows and whales are both looked at.
To avoid down votes all anyone has to do is self vote less, that's all there is to it.
You're right about one thing, many accounts which are acting selfishly use alt accounts and circle voting. We're working on a solution to this too and you can expect it in the next month or two.
how about this have you sadkitten box only target those that have a high dollar amount self vote say a way above 1.00 dollar and above and that way all of us minnows are left alone, who can only up vote a few penny's if it does not stop all you are doing in helping the whales, this bot will force people to leave steem and you can not make people vote on something that they do not like which is what this bot is trying to force people to do too, people will vote only on things they like and not when someone is trying to force them, if you want steem to grow the remove sadkiiten or make a change to only go after high dollar self votes and you can see here below i self voted it is 2 cents and sadkitten a whale with (+9,951.833 STEEM) and everyone knows that 95 percent of all posts made on steem do not get any upvotes so tell us all why someone should not upvote their on posts
When 97%+ of all your outgoing votes are to yourself, I don't think you can claim that no one is interesting. Sounds like excuses.
In fact, sounds narcissistic.
sadkitten a whale with (+9,951.833 STEEM) and everyone knows that 95 percent of all posts made on steem do not get any upvotes so tell us all why someone should not upvote their on posts as for a narcissistic the making of sadkitten does fit what a narcissistic is
Where are you pulling the stats? Out of your ass? Do you know how to read? I guess not because you are saying self vote is 100% bad when I asked the question "at what point is it bad."
Leave your narcissism at the door. If you are satisfied with giving yourself 0.02 STU per comment, that's your gig. There are plenty of others your size and smaller making more than that just by being part of the community they chose to be in.
You probably can't even name 5 communities where you could find support for your contents.
10k SP is a dolphin at best. This shows me you know NOTHING.
Come back when you actually know what you are talking about.
The problem with that is that there is a very widespread scam using new accounts, which are technically minnows. The size of the account doesn't determine anything really, it is the behavior. You have really self vote a lot to be of any interest to the bot, so if you're doing that it's not so unexpected that you would attract negativity.
Steem's growth is in large part dependent on making it unwelcome for scammers.
well answer sadkitten a whale with (+9,951.833 STEEM) and everyone knows that 95 percent of all posts made on steem do not get any upvotes so tell us all why someone should not upvote their on posts
Here at @steemflagrewards, we actively look out for such circle jerking and start zero-ing them out. We aren't always successful due to SP limitations.