What is the one of the more frustrating thing on Steemit.com?
To me, it is when someone upvotes his or her comment without upvoting the article the comment was posted in.
This, in my view, is the epitome of selfishness. It exemplifies the old mindset of taking without giving. Here is someone who reads an entire article, one that most likely took some time for the author to think up and put together yet it is not deserving of an upvote?
Naturally, many articles are not worthy of a vote. Upvotes are for quality content. However, it is ironic since we often see the person self-upvote a comment that is rather short and doesn't really add to the conversation. So obviously quality content wasn't a criteria.
One of the guidelines for downvotes is those occasions where one feels another is unfairly taking from the reward pool. "Unfair" is a subjective term so it is up to an individual to decide if this action is worthy of a down vote. Nevertheless, voting power is precious and, personally, I would rather use it for more positive purposes.
Therefore, @overkillcoin came up with an ideal solution. He created a drawing that we can use in such instances. It is rather comical in nature but gets the point across. Each time you see this situation arise, simply answer the individual's comment with this drawing.
One of the best parts of Steemit.com is there are no administrators monitoring behavior and banning people. Policing the site is up to the community. Here is a way for those of us who find this behavior counter to what we are trying to accomplish and to combat it.
What are your thoughts?
If you found this article helpful, please give it an upvote and resteem
I'm guessing this happens most on post where the creator is generous and usually upvotes comments. So, I bet you see this more than most. It has happened a few times to me and I'm excited to see this picture around and use it.
Random question, what other blockchains are you impressed with. I think your thoughts on steemit and how powerful it is are insightful and was wondering if you other projects you loved as well. I would love to hear about them.
I just wrote a post about my other passion...Manna...a crypto to end world wide poverty.
https://www.mannabase.com/?ref=fbt5zz3bfh
Bitshares is another that I am very high upon...I have money in that.
EOS also looks good...I have no money in that one.
There is a decentralized search engine that is going through its pre-ICO and ICO (I dont put my money in ICOs so I am just watching) and is beta testing with 1000 people...it looks very interesting...I cant recall the name at this moment or I would share it.
I like what BAT is doing although I am a bit put off that it is a centralized.
Of the major ones....BTC will continue to get Wall Street money and lots of development so that is going up in my opinion.
LTC, I like better than BTC, since I am a huge Charlie Lee fan.
ETH is solid although I dont own much of it...I think it will be a mainstay.
In reading the White Paper, even Appics looks appealing.
Thank you. I'm also a big fan of Charlie Lee. I think he truest is looking out for what is best for the crypto world. To bad he gets eaten alive for a lot of his choices. I wish people could see that he is just being real!!!
This is good info. I'll do some research on these projects.
That search engine is Presearch. Awesome project with some very community driven leaders. Now if they follow through with their plans is another thing but it's a good start tot be sure.
I admit I upvote my own comments but then again who does not its all an even playing field correct? If I can do it so can anyone else and if steemit did not want me to do it then it would not be offered. But yes you should at least upvote the article if you spent the time reading it and enjoyed it.
A big difference between someone who upvotes his/her own comments, especially for visibility, and one who does it without upvoting the article.
This takes on different meaning if you write a comment that supports the article which many do. I mean, if you blast the article because you think it stinks while upvoting your comment, that is a lot different than omitting an author upvote while posting great article I really liked it.
It is so annoying and I am so happy you pointed this out in this post. It has happened severally on my post where very short and often meaningless comments are upvoted but mine is not. Yes I would support any move to stop this very selfish attitude, it is so unfair. Thank you for sharing.
This!! 👏🏻 Must admit though, being a newbie - at first I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. So that aside - yes, people only liking their own comments bugs me. As does getting spam from a woman, wearing not a lot - offering to give out her number... not really what I was after on a sunset post :)
Love the drawing - will definitely use that bad boy.
I'm wondering how it would feel to be on the receiving end of that amazing sticker. Here's me upvoting my own comment, without upvoting your article.
To me ,any act of selfishness should be address urgently .people doing such a thing don' t even understand what they are doing.Can you imagine if all the whales decide to be self- centered ,then what a mess is this great platform.Any act of selfishness should be discouraged in all ramification because i found out that the sustenance of this platform is greatly embedded on sharity ,love .So nobody should be allowed to destroy what the whale has been laboured for through thinking ,and even did sacrifice if need be in order to turn his vision into reality.
In some way those who has invested a lot of money should decide themselves what is fair? After all it's their money.while that is said I never liked you can self upvote your own comments. Article self upvote should be enough IMO.
I hate being the devil's advocate on this on because I feel where you are coming from but here is a situation where this could be "forgivable"
I, for example, use steemvoter in order to save time and give the people I'm following a steady supply of upvotes even if I'm not online( I still do manual curation before anybody freaks out).
In this context if I spend a lot of time writing that comment and I see there being a ton of comments already written, I wouldn't want mine to disappear without it being read.
If I gave myself a small upvote ( just to get a bit ahead and not remain at the bottom) before the automatic upvote comes on that particular article then I might appear like a scumbag. But I now that my upvote will come and I don't give it a second thought.
I hope that particular situations makes sense.
I wish you a very productive and awesome New Year! Chear man!
Thanks for the comment @calatorulmiop.
Upvoting oneself for visibility is generally as accepted as a valid reason for self voting. You are correct, there are times you want to jump to the head of the comment section because you are knowledgeable or passionate about a particular subject the author wrote on.
I think that is a big difference from one who continually upvotes oneself to the exclusion of the authors...which you state you support via an automated upvoter.
There is a big difference but I just wanted to point out a particular situation where I could upvote myself before the post.
Lol! @overkillcoin is genious, gotta save that image myself.
There's also another thing, I once wrote a huge comment on a post, didn't even think about getting a vote but I was passionate on the topic and disagreed with something said.
I argumented, justified my opinion, and then the author replied "Thanks for the Comment" and upvoted that comment of his by $5.90 leaving mine unvoted.
I wasn't thinking about the vote, but NOW I was thinking about it! Now I felt I deserved it... pissed me off and I'm not one to be pissed over votes.
Talking about good content, your blog inspired me to write longer content than I did before, and I find it we sometimes write complementary topics so I'd love to see you there more often. It's an invite to stop by my "home" one of these days :)
Cheers
I do so, if the user did not vote for my post, I practically never vote for his comment. Those rare cases of exceptions, these are comments of my familiar people. This needs to be told to new users. I, I will say more, comments of this kind, can be called spam. Huge happiness to you in 2018.
Awesome. I wish I had that kind of talent. I've always wanted to be able to draw.
Concerning your topic, I agree on all fronts. When a creator puts in work and you spend 10 seconds making a comment, then tip yourself without upvoting the author that is a really sad statement about yourself. It screams scarcity mindset.
Concerning flags I agree there too. My votes are for giving, not taking. Karma will bite these people in the ass, I don't have to. I also just don't have time for it. My life is filled with enough negativity without engaging in flagging. I'd rather do something positive.
Thanks for the post.
Keep Steeming!!
Of course, before making any comment, we will have to read the article before. Then there will be comments related to the topic, many do not do it. Thanks a nice article to share with us. Happy new year.
I love the drawing! You are right that is annoying. Almost as annoying as the bots that post 25 obscure posts to your feed! How do we get rid of those? Ever hear of the lovebot?
Absolutely! Done! Upvoted, resteemed! This graphic will be used daily. Thank you.
My thoughts is that many people want something for nothing. I always upvote post where I am made a comment and this is without exception. I am going to give this post resteem, since I completely agree whit this article.
what really needs to be done is setting up a seperate clock for downvoting, then we could solve these situations in a very quick fashion. Anyway, for me, somone voting up his own comments is a good reason not to give him my vote in addition, even if I vote up all the other comments under a post of mine.
Noob here, I agree with you. Being selfish isn't what we should be about. Building an awesome community/network is more important, profiting while doing it is the icing...
Hits me right in the head im pretty new here but I will be doing my best to keep the best standards of this place on top the more advice the best I can do so keep em coming for sure
For Steem to revolutionize the world it must first be optimal and fine-tuned if it is going to take down bankers.
I am not sure STEEM will take down the banksters....blockchain will do that.
STEEM is just one of many that is going to change the world as we know it.
Bitshares is one that I think will have more of an impact on banking since it is designed to go after the financial industry.
Ya, I don't get at all, some people vote every comment they make. I get the reasoning, not sure how I feel about it yet.
Can you explain to me how to display a picture in the comments ? I still haven't figured that out yet. TIA
Brilliant response to such a selffish act! Hahaha
You have my vote. The cartoon is good Idea, but I don't think self voters will understand it.
Love it thankfully I don't have enough comments on my posts to have to deal with this problem.
Some of us are just lucky I guess
great topic,i like your post
thanks @taskmaster4450
And thanks to @overkillcoin too for the awesome grahic!
Very nice post :)
Thank You! Going to be using this rather a lot
Good post.Like @upvoted and @resteemed
This brought me a chuckle! This is true. The least thing we can do is at least make sure we upvote a post that we enjoyed reading. My upvote won't be as big as the others but yeah. Everytime an article is worth reading it deserves an upvote. Carry on ! Don't mind them and keep steeming!
Hehehehe, awesome drawing, saved it and will definitely use it!
I was upvoting every post I read, but my votes are worthless. Sometimes they're worth $0.01 and most of the time they're worth $0.00. But I'm not going to resort to posting memes and other mindless content to boost myself up. I'd rather stay a nobody.
I sometimes upvote someone else’s comment just to show that I’ve seen it. It doesn’t really make sense but there’s no other button for it.
Anyway, @taskmaster4450 , let’s all lighten up, we can’t control everything. The atmosphere gets too tense if people police each other too much.... Be and let be 🌞
Happy 2018
I found the info useful and thought provoking as well.
Anything that gives us rewards and money people are sure to find a way to circumvent limitations and place things to their advantage and earn more money.
I have been seeing this trend and have always been curious before why they do that. Because it is easier for the people to receive more steem rather upvoting the OP.
More people are opting to selling their delegation and to upvote their own posts rather curatinng
Sad lufem
I love @overkillcoin drawing... actually I like the "unfinished" one better.. I give a warning or two.. then it's flag time... they ain't gonna understand a cartoon.. regardless of how cool it is.. they understand taking their money..
That would suck if I upvoted my comment but not the post. Sometimes I have to come back to a post to upvote if I'm below 90%, but then I resteem it so I don't have to go look for it. Once again a high quality post by taskmaster4450.
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I rarely have upvoted one of my comments. It always struck me as being wrong doing that, unless I have a ton of upvotes on it.
I won't get boared reading this article 100 times nice blend of information @taskmaster4450 keep steeming !!