Thanks, @guiltyparties.
I'm glad that the ID theft aspect of this is now settled. Personally, think this was a misuse of promotion but have opened it up for discussion on our discord.
It's a better use of the reward pool to actually promote content with value exclusive to our blockchain. That was the other factor I considered when flagging.
People using trending to draw traffic away from the blockchain is not doing us any favors imho
All those paid votes gained exactly one comment. Seems a poor return.
Absolutely. He would also get a better return leveraging Steemit's SEO properly instead.
If you continue pressure on businesses who buy steem to keep its values high you'll end up with quality posts receiving $0.1 reward only, just think about that...
When it comes to misuse of the reward pool, I don't think we should be making distinction between classes of entity.
Whether it be a person, a company, organization, Koolaid drinking cult or underwater basket weaving club, we need to have standards for how the reward pool is used if we want to blockchain to retain value and they should be enforced down the board.
Post payout should be typically about the substance the content and value it brings to Steem. You have been given feedback and hope you will take it into consideration and make improvements.
As a business, you have a reputation to maintain so consider how you use the shared resource of the reward pool if you want the community to take kindly to you.
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I understand what you mean, that low-quality must be moderated not depending on who publishes it, but why do you consider our content us low-quality? It's a good content, we've worked hard to create it and we share it on many social-media platforms like FB and twitter, and it's the same everywhere, short post with a link to read more, why shouldn't we consider Steemit as a good media platform for promotion?
Why don't you downvote dlike posts then?
I'm going to give steemit steemit users a chance to follow us and stay updated with the recent news, we don't take them out if the blockchain, we deliver our product on it. And I'm going to use bidbots to reach us much audience as I can. And since my strategy showing pretty good results I hope others will follow my example as well.
And I'm sure this will cause steem to develop a bigger community and some day good writers won't need to use bidbots at all...
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Sorry for the miscommunication.
I didn't mean to suggest the articles are low quality (well except for that one we discussed w the spelling / grammar issues).
The articles I checked look fine. I'm just saying they don't really bring anything additional to Steem in terms of value to the network.
If all anybody did was fill Trending up with cross posts, do you think there will be more incentive or less incentive for content consumers to come to our chain?
That's pretty much the issue. Hope we are more or less on the same page now.
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