It seems sad they are no longer just targeting shitposts and people who are buying excessively to get onto the trending pages. I think their current approach is harmful to steem (and is targeting people, like you and I, who have invested in steem.) They now appear to be on an almost religious/fanatical/fascistic mission to change steem, and to force everyone to comply with their vision of "NewSteem". This is dangerous.
Will they target @actifit upvotes next? What about the exchange of @partiko points for steem upvotes?
I too, after investing two years and a considerable, amount of my own fiat, have considered leaving.
But I will not be bullied.
The price of steem is not affected directly by the use of bidbots. It is what people use the steem they earn for that is important.
Let's see if they downvote that.I decided that for every "Cease and Desist" message and downvote I will give one of their posts an upvote by converting my SPORTS tokens into STEEM by using @sportsvoter.
Smart thinking, there are so many inconsistencies in their crusade it's just insane. This post also got supported by a friend with a buildawhale upvote, is that also not allowed. While their post getting upvoted by sportsvoter probably is.
I guess they will have to kill the Actifit project targetting the AFIT to STEEM conversion upvotes. They likely won't do that though. All this looks like is big accounts wanting to earn more using their free whale downvotes to nuke smaller accounts to make it go back into the rewards pool of which most of it flows back to them. The sad thing is that it's a lose-lose situation because making it impossible to get anything going for new people on this platform (unless you are in the curation circle) along with no reason for passive investors to get a return on an inflating coin. What reason is there left to buy and power up Steem I really wonder ?
We'll see what happens next. I have a feeling there is going to be a backlash. There are a lot of people who think they are going too far. They haven't replied to my questions about Actifit and how that is different to Sportsvoter. I am just waiting for their next move I have responses planned. I think I'm going to have some fun!
They will eventually downvote everything, until they get to the point where all they can downvote is each other, and then they will eat themselves, because they convinced themselves so thoroughly that #newsteem would bring value to the platform that they cannot bear stopping until it does.
Since the mechanism for that to happen is imaginary, they're going to be at it for a while.
Steem might become usable again once they're done, who knows.
#sbi-skip