Hello, wanted to give you a warning that voting for witnesses who "buy" your votes in exchange for hive rewards is not secure for the network, hope you would reconsider.
Hello, wanted to give you a warning that voting for witnesses who "buy" your votes in exchange for hive rewards is not secure for the network, hope you would reconsider.
@acidyo, since you are the only entity I know is associated with ocd, and because you discussed a previous issue with me so kindly, would you please help me with this? Or direct me to someone who can? It is very disturbing that someone like me, who manually upvotes ONLY, and who is upvoted only by entities that support my work, not my allegiances, could even trigger a warning like this one.
You are voting for @earn.hive, a "witness" no one knows who is bribing people to vote for it, no one else is or should attempt to earn witness votes this way nor should people accept it and let themselves be bribed. It doesn't matter how much rewards are at stake, the issue is that given enough witnesses doing this and enough stakeholders thinking it's okay it could eventually jeopardize the security of this chain and all users funds if they were voted in high enough and were in charge of a bad actor wanting to literally destroy the whole blockchain. So please don't encourage such activity with your witness vote.
Um, thank you for the warning, but I don't know what you are talking about. I voted for a witness who buys my votes? I have not knowingly entered any arrangement of this sort. To my knowledge, no one rewards me other than in genuine, hard-earned, upvotes on legitimate content. No witness has bought my votes. I upvote very consciously, based on merit. Please clarify.
It's sending you transactions daily with "Witness vote reward" in the memo so figured it was obvious what I was talking about.
so I see that earn.hive (I have no idea how I voted for an empty account) is sending me a negligible amount every day, totaling about $1 a year. I can assure you this annual dollar was not a motivation for me, but I will probably remove my vote after a bit more consideration of how I happened to vote for it in the first place.
Thank you for the help and explanation. Much appreciated.
Not at all obvious! I saw those rewards, but had no idea why they were coming to me. You give me too much credit! lol
Thanks for the info, I will look into this some more.
Ah okay, I didn't check if you were actually voting for it, considering how much it markets itself with .001 hive memos to people who aren't voting for it yet but of course doesn't post or comment knowing its reputation would instantly get nuked it seems like they know more than the regular users here. Wouldn't be surprised if it's sending people rewards who may not even vote for it in an attempt to lure them in. Anyway, hope you didn't find my tone too aggressive.
no I have somehow voted for it, if I am looking at the chart correctly.
Really? For what it's worth other curators nominated your post, I didn't "reward you" for doing the proper thing and not voting for a witness that bribes people to vote for it.
Ah! That is quite an old comment of mine. If you continue to read my comments on that fellow's posts, I hope you will see that I am trying to be a voice of reason for all involved. With the world as topsy turvy as it seems to be these days, it's very difficult to know what is up. These upper echelon workings escape me, and I'd rather not even have to think about them. I just want to post my little posts and commune with other like minded persons. Thank you for your comment, which I have been expecting. And thank you for clarifying.