I'm here almost a year. I'd bought most of my steem for hard earned money. Everybody preaching from day one how important is to have a lot of steem power to have influence on the platform. I'm not native English speaker and my only way to participate is to vote and comment. I see everyday for whole year how people riding my voting bot and cashing out all rewards and buying laptops, plane tickets, smartphones, even sport cars, and post about that and on top of that get rewarded. It's their decision,I don't care. But when I stopped voting bot and start self voting my comments all hell break loose. They even set a bot who start down voting mine and probably also other steem users. They will not attract investors this way.
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I agree that prevent self voting is basically like saying sell all your steem power. The people downvoting of self voting are trying to prevent abuse....but they are going about it the wrong way in my opinion.
That is sad to hear. You earned that investment and chose to participate with it on Steemit.
Proud of you for sticking around and still voting. You are an example for new investors.
It's not big deal really. They changing rules all the time. After every HF different group of steemians get on top. I'm not complaining at all. Just some of my thoughts about this issue. It's always ways around if one want. Look at trending page. No comment.
People find a way to win.
I didn't hear you complaining so much as chuckling at the way some folks act. You sound like you have a level way of looking at things.
Thanks. It's never black or white. It's grey; most of the time.
It seems to me there are small groups of people with decent steem powers that just upvote each other.
mafia style setup.
Every early supporter invested his money and it wasn't for charity purpose. They are expecting returns on it and self upvoting is one way to achieve it.
You should read my comment for the post for full context. You will find that I would agree with you.
Sure, but that's the way the whole steemit is setup. Everybody can buy or earn steem power and do whatever he want.
@oldtimer, much as we would like to think otherwise... people often start "behaving badly" when there is money involved. I have seen many of these discussions... and one of the things I always like to point out (not popular!) is that (a) Steemit did not give anyone a JOB, they offered an OPPORTUNITY... so your pay is a "reward" not anyone's obligation to pay and (b) focusing on "short term rewards" is not any kind of investment, it is basically "playing the lottery."
Responsible people know how to handle money and have long term strategy. If I upvote myself now and buy more cheap steem to do better curation latter when I'll have more time it will be better for me and all authors and steem platform. I never play lottery.
I think this is a solid point! I also think it is ones own business what kind of strategy one chooses to use which in the long run is the best for ones own development.
Correct. And it also depend in what situation each individual find himself.
I'm sure steemit.inc have their own strategy for platform to grow and prosper.
But I can see people joining steemit platform and after one week they know everything and they start preaching and teaching users and developers what to do and how to do. I hate that.
People are free to do what they want with their investment in steemit. It's that simple. I don't care for the people that pop in a comment on one of my posts, say "good post" and upvote themselves .50 cents. It's not very neighborly, but I'm not going to downvote them, I will unfollow and ignore them.
The bot issue is a different story. AI downvote bots shouldn't exist. Plain & Simple. Very dangerous thing to have.
yeah there are others downvoting self-upvoted comments now..why not start curating manually again :)