The winner is:
#1 @jimybpt --> 0.403 SBD
I sent that money directly to the winner, you can check that in my wallet.
We collected 0.269 SBD for the Lucky Steemian Pool.
What is the Lucky Steemian Pool?
With every upvote(only 100%), on one of the 3 daily Vote Lotteries, you buy yourself a share in the Pool.Every Sunday the weekly earnings will be payed out to all shareholders of the Lucky Steemian Pool.
Further more, at specific milestones(1000SP, 5000SP, ....) we will power down Steem and all the Steem will be split among all shareholders of the Lucky Steemian Pool.
Wanna be a part of this?
Just visit my blog and upvote one or more open Vote Lotteries.
All profits from this post will go into the weekly payout pool
thanks mate :D
Voting directs funds from the reward pool, it does not create funds. Effectively buying votes for this redundant content is an abuse of the system and takes away rewards that would otherwise go to other upvoted content. To keep this community healthy we need to encourage real content creation and communication. In order to preserve the health and growth of the Steem network, I'm flagging these.
Please my friend, I want you to go through these catagories: "freesteem", "lottery" and some in "contest".
There are a lot of other lotteries or giveaways for upvotes. I have the only one that dedicates 100% of the account to the users, even when we power down, I will split the profits between the steemians. Other difference: they get more upvotes then me and they take minimum 50% from it for themselves. And still you decide to downvote me, I don't really know why you have to downvote something that creates content, creates upvotes, creates payouts. You think this is bad, but steemit also needs to be alive and these lotteries, contests and giveeaways are also a part of growth.
I've just been flagging those I happen across, but thanks, I'll look under those tags when I get a chance. The issue is that your lottery takes subsidies from the rewards pool that are intended to reward content generation and subverts the curation system by simply paying people for their upvotes, which is not sustainable. I want to keep the network healthy so it can be of benefit to more people. The more that sort of subversion is allowed to remain profitable, the more of it we'll see. If it drowns out real content, then the rewards will quickly dry up too.
Ok, i get you are mad about some content on this platform, but things like this will make Steem more popular, you need a lot of content here and you are already big with your SP, but you are taking income away from people that need that money, it's not easy for minnows to come big. Nobody that votes on my posts can ever reach your value, thats the nature of the steem system, I think that is a very weak point of the coin. And I don't want to say you are not deserving your SP, because you are a early adopter and that should reward you, but you are in a pretty big position and you should not just throw out so many downvotes. If you think about it, the big NBA/NFL Fantasy Leagues do the exact same thing, but they got big supporters with 50+ SBD per post, they are really abusing a lot of power, but you don't take the money from them, because it could hurt you very hard. I am asking you for 2 things:
Please just give me some response if I can continue my service(I will not give up anyways, you just could make it very hard for me)
As you say, I'm an early adopter. I was involved in Steem before Steemit or Busy existed, basically from the beginning. I've seen it grow from nothing, and I want to help it keep growing because I think things like this can make a real difference in people's lives long term. I see voting kickback arrangements as a very real threat to that, which is why I flag them when I see them. Do you understand why I think they're a problem? If you don't, I can try to explain the issue more thoroughly if you can ask specific questions about what doesn't make sense to you, but unless you can explain convincingly why I'm wrong about it I'm not going to change my behavior.
I try to upvote minnows and newcomers posts and comments, and I never flag things just because I disagree with them or dislike other things the same person has posted. Basically the only things I would flag are spam, fraud/scam attempts, and voting kickback schemes. I've seen other lotteries on Steem that sell tickets based on direct SBD payments rather than using the voting rewards, and I have no problem with that arrangement. Has it occurred to you that people could cheat your lottery using multiple accounts and bots?
If it's allowed to be profitable to run this sort of lottery subsidized by the reward pool, then early adopters like me (but without my idealism and hope for Steem) could run them, upvote them, and then create additional accounts to win them in order to increase their holdings. If we allow it to be profitable to use Steem that way instead of as a social network, then we can expect Steem to be overrun with bots, fake user accounts, and get rich quick schemes until it becomes a ghost town devoid of the community interaction for which it was built.
I appreciate your willingness to discuss the issues here, and I hope I've presented my thoughts clearly.
I had not much time these last days to respond and sadly I saw that you downvoted again.
Even if I would agree with you, I really don't get it, why you are now having a vendetta against me? You just have to click on freesteem and you see min 3 accounts from the same guy, every post looks closely the same, that guy or some guys are giving back max 50% of the income, they take 50% for themselves and make a lot of money. They never get downvoted, why? Why do you target me and them mostly never. And I don't think they will respond to you like I do. So you want war? Or something like that...
This should not be a threat, but I can guarantee you one thing, if you don't stop this trolling on my account I will do 2 things, first I will set up min 5 bots. they will spam the hell out of steemit. I can do up to 288posts a day, on each account. And the only thing you can do against it? Downvote over 1000posts per day? I don't think so and I would not do it for the profits, I would do it to piss you off, even if I would make 0$, I still would do it..
Second I would set up another min 5 bots. They will spam under all your comments, you make on steemit! It would be really nice to have your account. A good solution then would be a new account? I don't know if you want that.
I will not do that if you start using your SP fair and square, because at the moment you are trying to destroy me, me! not the thing i am doing, just me, I was not the first to do this thing and I am by far not the one with the highest upvotes! Please just use your power split, if you don't like what I do, just downvote a post and move to the other 10 accounts that do the same shit.
And to be honest you can go through every daily contest and downvote them, because guess what, most of them do the same fucking thing as I do, they make a contest with the goal to get a rich account(thats what i am not doing) and give money to steemians. Noone would send daily pictures to a contest just to get the first place, they want the money and you know it.
I think we should just find a way here on steemit to live together quiet and peacefull, I want steem to success as well, but with this attitude you are just pushing out users and thats what steem needs the most! Think about it in real life, there are standing 90 people and everyone is for something and you are the only one that thinks something else, so everyone has to think the same because you have more power, what a system is that? I thought steemit is place to live free, not getting punshed in the face by a whale. And you are still the only(not one other person) complained about the lottery, it would be completely different if there were more people complaining, but no, you really are the only one...I don't know dude, you have the power on steemit and you are abusing it atm pretty hard on me, so as I said, tech is no problem for me, I can give you that honor right back at you and who would win? Noone would win, we would both lose...
Maybe we could think together of a way how I can continue with a great contest, that you would support by not downvoting? I have many great ideas for steem.
Or tell me how I should adopt the lottery to be ok for you!?
Sorry if some things sound confusing, its very late here...
I've downvoted several similar posters, but you happened to be one of the first I stumbled across. It's nothing personal against you. You still haven't responded to the actual reasons I provided for why I'm downvoting.
You could run a Steem lottery with people sending you SBD rather than funding it through the reward pool and I would have no objection to that. The problem is subverting the curation system to extract rewards.
are you fucking autistic or what is wrong with you?!
As persuasive as this is, my mind remains unchanged. Try reading my position again (and maybe this too: https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034) and give it another try.
ur an idiot if you flag this kinda stuff!
people don't get their free steem cause you are flagging like a kid with 100k on your account! grow the fuck up and let not so wealthy people get something to!
You should look out for people that post non sense every 10 minutes and get a huge amount of votes cause they are in a guild or whatever it's called on here. this is what is destroying steemit.. not free lotteries!
And for the "Content" part... what you call content, i find somewhere else.. i don't need steemit to know a bitcoin price or whatever you mean by "content"....
Hey Pivi,
I went and looked at your posting history, the last time you posted something new is 5 months ago. Since then all you have been doing is resteeming other people's content, most of which is just Daily SBD giveaways.
If you had spent the last 5 months, learning to write meaningful posts, with content that other people like and would upvote then you would not be so desperate to become rich without putting in any effort.
If you want Steem to be worth more money someday, it has to be useful, if everyone on Steemit acted like you did then the price of steem and SBD would be $0. because everyone would think this is a scam, which it isn't.
Here read this thread for a better explanation
whats the point of posting stuff if steemit is corrupt as heck?! that's exactly why i stopped posting on here. i get more likes by posting stuff elsewhere. why not take the opportunity to get free steem on here by doing some upvotes on lotteries since it's a waste of time to post stuff? like 99% of the people do? the corrupt voting guilds are what destroys steemit, not someone who claims some 0.01 steem daily. like come on...
If you believe steem has no value then why not leave it for the rest of us who believe? You can go post elsewhere and stop raping our reward pool since you don't believe it has any value.