Noob errors are excluded mate. Lol.
I upvoted myself, as most did, in the early days when my vote was worth very low values, these days I don't. My post was more about those abusing the reward pool by voting every comment they make (including making comments purely for them to upvote on them) and throwing 100% votes on those comments and also very poor quality posts. It's not productive for the greater community and in fact, is counter-productive.
As it turns out the user I based this post on, and didn't mention, has been addressed it seems which is as it should be.
Thanks for joining in and throwing up your charts.
I get that. Myself and my mrs started steemit quite a while back, mainly on her profile because she is much more interesting than I am. Back then everything that was trending was solely doing that because people were buying votes, also, we watched some introduction video on YouTube, all about steemit. On that they instructed to always upvote your own post, so we did both of them. We then had about 6 months away from the platform, mainly because of a new business venture that took over our lives for a while. When we came back on, we continued to do things the same way, and got a bit of stick for it. Downvoting was a new thing when we returned and a couple of my posts got stripped of Virtually all of the rewards. When @slobberchops and @steevc explained everything it became very apparent to me of the good it does for the platform to be regulated by the users. I’m still not 100% clued up on searching for bidbot miss users or self voting etc, so I have recently learned how to set up a curation trail, and have followed a few people that do some downvoting good for the platform. It’s a way to basically delegate some of my downvoting power to people that do good with it, even though it’s a small amount. Also, I was tempted to upvote my comment on here as a bit of a joke, but not many people get British sarcasm, lol.
Laughing about your last line...Yes, British humour can be difficult for some to grasp. I would have got it though. I'll throw you a vote anyway, so the same result. :)
Thanks for adding some perspective to your own journey and yeah, coming back like that with the old-steem modus operandi would have caused you some pain I'm sure. You know now though, and I think are doing the right thing with your DV trail. It's important to ensure that abusers are addressed. We need to give them a chance to change their ways and if they choose not to then they need to accept that the community will address it for them.
There's a couple of nutbags out there at the moment who started heavily down voting posts for reprisal but are now downvoting comments as a way to attack the community. It is annoying for those being DV'd, but nothing more than mosquito bites in reality. It will will also be addressed, by the community, and we'll all move on.
Keep up the good work.
Yeah. My girlfriend gets the same 2 downvoting most of her posts. Somebody said that there was somebody that you could tag, and they will upvote you, to the same value as an incorrect downvote.
Who is your GF? I'll have a look.
Bettynoir
I wouldn’t worry too much. They have very low SP, and the downvotes are of a small percentage.
OK, I thought so...Nah, no problem there...The two I refer to have a 100% DV value of about $2.50 each. When bettynoir starts getting those sorts of DV's let me know. It happened to me for about 3 months, on every post, and yes, there are people who can redress the DV's and work on addressing the situation.
Read this by acid...https://steemit.com/nice/@acidyo/the-cost-of-being-an-abuser-on-steem
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