OMG, someone I vote for votes me back. Holy shit. What an amazing observation.
In my entire history here, I have talked to solominer on like 3 ocassions, one was about STEMGeeks, another about Python, and third about downvoting a spammer.
What he does with his votes is completely up to him, as is what I do. I don't vote trade nor do I sell votes. In fact, anyone who contacts me even talking about votes gets ignored.
So if I was trading I'd be doing a pretty shitty job of it.
P.S. you should remove "New Year Edition!" from your $100 copy/pasted post.
Yes, I understand the actual content is in comments, because I understand things.
But cmon, you're supposed to have an impervious facade around here - try harder.
As you said, the post is 99% about the comments and engement. It's not something that is done every day or even 10 times a day like some people. It's done once a every two months. Great ad hominem in response to your farm of comment spammers getting flagged.
Credit where credit is due: you don't host an AMA 10 times a day, and respond to things inside the AMA even if they're scathing, so that's pretty cool.. but you should really stop pretending to understand the queen system as if you actually know what those votes are for. Most of them are dust that gets rounded down to nothing, so WTF is really going on? Nobody knows, I guarantee it.
Anyway it's not surprising you think it's "spam" at a glance, since this is hive with steemit roots that basically imply "everything is spam until proven otherwise", so maybe you're not even to blame for that... then again, the first rule of the game is "don't attack", and yet somehow across every community and format without fail there's always at least one person of 'authority' that does. The more warnings that are given the more likely it is to happen, and it's always the same archetype that does it - the people with some form of localized power in that environment. The blindfold is so universal that it's almost astounding, and it proves one of our original points beyond any doubt.
So you can keep downvoting, and we can keep haunting you while simultaneously proving points, it's fine - you've become a catalyst to the game either way (and like you said people do whatever they want), but pretending that you're innocent of circlejerk nonsense far in excess of the kind you're supposedly trying to fight against is some politician-level headspace you've cornered yourself into, and it's going to become really heavy over time.
Pointing at "abuse" of a few pennies while in your position didn't divert attention away from you, because you made the mistake of pointing at the mirrorforce, and we are not interested in pennies.
Our enemies are your enemies,
you just haven't noticed you're playing on the wrong side.
I don't expect that you care enough to figure that out, but if you do, things will change.
I don't need to or care what the fuck it is about. Spamming comments across 20 or so accounts all upvoting each other is the only thing I need to know.
Regardless of your bullshit justification, that's what it boils down to. If you have some sort of game that uses these upvotes to pay for something, this has been frowned upon time and time again. You self voting 20 accounts you own at near 100% is not only selfish it also gives you curation rewards and author rewards unfairly to anyone else on comments that would embarrass even 4chan.
Prove it or shut the fuck up. Just making accusations because you are salty for being caught doesn't mean shit. I do not self vote, I do not ask for votes, I do not accept anyone asking for votes from me, my voting is purely organic with no self interest. You are more than welcome to look into it and try to prove me otherwise.
Trying to attack me with bullshit claims because you got caught being a shitty community member is pathetic and you should feel bad.
Bring it, I have nothing to be ashamed of.
OH? That's an interesting phrase you've randomly recited.
@solominer, we have created another popcorn-compatible show for you to enjoy.
As someone holding one of the secrets, you might find this one amusing.
@themarkymark, solo is secretly overpowered, you know?
Before posting I removed the part where I mentioned I have near-zero faith in "the archetype" being capable of understanding this, but one line in particular illustrates one of the original concepts perfectly: "
If you have some sort of game that uses these upvotes to pay for something". Really, it's like everyone in that category has become a mindless drone barely capable of passing a turing test. Meanwhile part of the game is made to discern if anything has beyond-human intelligence. Thank "GOD" for that. No marky, it isn't a steemit upvote game, there are a million ways to make money on hive.Anyway the whale circlejerk voting is obvious, although 'organic' traded votes is a fancy spin on the idea. It's nice to see that people have given it some thought to avoid anything coming back to haunt them, but it probably will anyway. I don't really care about it though, I just decided a couple random people should notice it sooner than they were going to otherwise. Some of it could be 'organic' like an unspoken handshake, sure, but it boils down to the same thing, since you care to talk about boiling things down and ignoring everything else - that's what it is, vote trading on every. single. post.
Don't be mistaken though, it's not like I'm calling the cops on a cop. First of all nobody would do anything about it, but more importantly I have much bigger fish to decimate than some random hive dude - I'm just letting you know that you're not as invincible as you think you are while simultaneously proving you're not as smart as you think you are by cascading your own actions into more proof of the things I actually care about. This is actually very easy to do, because you still have no idea what is going on, nor do you care to understand, as per the tertiary definition of
blind. The AMA is the perfect place for you to defend yourself, so WTF is really going on? Maybe I'm attacking you, maybe I'm your best friend in disguise, maybe this is all just more reflections from the mirror that never breaks, and you can fight yourself forever if you find it entertaining - I think hive could use a few more scathing arguments in the midst of all this artificial positivity anyway, so "hey, fuck you" and etc.{why does the answer have to be inside of a giant wall of text?}
None of this is even remotely surprising, and despite my permanent negative tone, I don't even think you're a below average person - I just happen to think that literally everyone on the entire planet is effectively retarded inside of a certain context, and there's a clearly demonstrated way of proving it, along with a very important reason for proving it. Among those things, there's no greater proof than someone attacking: it's written on the walls, and nobody can figure out why. In any community, in any format, on any website, it's always the same - and not a single one of those mindless legal drones has ever become self-aware enough to realize what is happening, so I don't expect you will either, it's fine.
Despite all of that, I think you're probably "a good person", not intentionally malevolent, but instead you are sincerely attempting to 'do the right thing', along with almost all other law-enforcer type people on the planet - and yet we already know exactly what they are going to do when suddenly faced with something that absolutely refuses to follow their literal-code of 1 trillion laws, even while they are repeatedly warned "do not attack". It's a suicide mission and everyone's on it.
The fact that you have any confidence in your ability to judge against something you don't understand is yet another point proven about people with power, along with this post illustrating a repeated instance of one of the very predefined ways they will react to certain things, so thanks. It obviously isn't enough to prove something like this once, it has to be done multiple times, over and over again in multiple formats.
To be clear and basic enough for anyone willing to understand:
all of this hostility is hostility against the archetype. (like I said, a catalyst)
congratulations - anyone understanding how this works is suddenly a fucking pro.
cool story, thanks for sharing.
I know, right? It is a cool story, thanks for noticing.