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RE: An Interesting Read: A Leftist Frustrated with Leftist Culture

in #activism8 years ago

Thank you!

Curious about your thoughts on self-voting comments. It seems to be coming more of a hot issue here and some have even created bots to flag those who do it too often. I've advocated a different approach by just asking, "Why the self vote?" I see you vote up all your own comments. Do you think this increases noise about what is a worthwhile comment and what isn't while taking rewards out of the pool that might be better allocated elsewhere to help promote great content on Steemit?

Ironically, this may relate to the original post here. Some are trying to police self-voting comments. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. Some self-voters and have no problem with it. Others do so on meaningless spam like "Thanks!" and are, well, kind of greedy in the eyes of the community. How are we to tell the difference?

I think it starts by asking. So why do you self-vote all your own comments?

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  • self upvoting comments, pushes them toward the top. This seems entirely intentional in the design. I actually like it. And I like being able to push my comment to the top, when a post gets older and I can no longer vote for the author, I can still vote for myself, and I can push my comment to the top of a VERY LARGE STRING OF COMMENTS MOST READERS WILL NEVER READ ENTIRELY.

Thank you for replying. I'll respond to your longer reply on the other thread here.

I think everyone should be free to do whatever he wants with his / her SP , i mean nobody bats an eye to some one liking his own post on Facebook ,or upvoting his comment reddit

If someone is on the position where his auto-vote can significantly increase the payout or visibility of a given comment , its because they have earned the SP that gives me ability to do so , by either contributing content and being reward or investing on the network

So i think they deserve the benefits of doing so and if some one denies them the right , it might just give the impresion that you are not free to chose what your do with your earned influence on the network

My opinion on groups who monitor account activity or content produced( with the exception of spam or extremely low quality contents ) is on the same line

Thanks for commenting. Have you seen my full post on the topic? Hundreds of comments there as well. It's a complicated issue with multiple rational arguments for and against. The one I'm currently leaning towards is "What if everyone did this"? If everyone only voted up their own comments, their would be no way to discover good content and people would lose interest in this site or in writing good content. We'd see more of this.

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