Abuse? Could you explain to me how I am abusing the bots? I was also honest about my affiliate links in the disclaimer at the end. I'm not looking to offend or insult anyone so please let me know your side of things so I can understand exactly what it was that I did wrong.
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You paid 180 Steem on some votes, but were obviously not just doing this for promotion as you did not decline rewards. Did you not see that buying votes was discouraged by the last hard fork that gave us free downvotes? Well you know now. This is mainly about getting a fair rewards distribution, but I would say the post does not have that much value anyway as it is pretty generic info. That is my humble opinion.
It was designed to have generic info. My plan was to use this post to promote crypto and on board users to both the space as a whole and the STEEM/HIVE communities. You will see more of that explained in my next few articles which I will remember to be much more conservative with my vote bot purchases. The main reason I used them was to make the post appear more profitable so that newer users would have hope of making decent returns on their posts. I will of course explain voting bots in my STEEM post and make sure to inform the reader that they are a tool that can be used but must be used with smaller transfers.
Please do not promote buying votes as a way to make posts profitable. That goes against the spirit of this blockchain. Do it to get noticed whilst declining rewards if you want.
You should have seen that most of the community will be forking off to Hive tomorrow. Maybe vote buying will be acceptable on what remains of Steem, but you may find it detrimental on Hive.
I will continue to downvote buying votes for profit. That is my choice to get better rewards distribution.
As I understand it the @steemflagrewards bot I was flagged with by another user does not have a problem with bid bots as long as the content matches the vote size. there will be no more 2 digit votes bought. Just small ones for some of my more interesting content. As I understand it that would keep me out of the realm of "abuse" and that is all I am trying to do. But that is just my humple opinion.
I'm not going to keep explaining why I disagree with your strategy. Do what you want and see what the community thinks.
In all honestly you haven't really explained much. Either way I appreciate your input and will end with a piece of advise. Maybe the real enemy here is the bots themselves and your efforts would be better put towards stopping the issue at the source. But that's just how I see it.
You've had plenty of explanation here and in Discord or in plenty of posts over the last few years. We cannot stop people selling votes, but we can make it less economic to buy them. That's how I see it.