This is certainly a problem which needs to be dealt with. It's frustrating but unless enough whales with equal power regularly use up all their voting power to flag it, it will continue.
Some argue it's like buying a mining rig and then mining with it. Some people buy Steem Power and then game the system to take rewards. It's a big discussion which I've talked about at length here: Self-Voting: Scammy Behavior, Rational ROI, or Something Else?
Either way, it's not at all related to my post here. If you want to discuss that, we can do so in chat on rocket chat or in discord.
I looked into this abuse a bit more and realized how bad it is. I wrote this post today about it, even though I'm on vacation with my family. Thankfully, most of those comments have been knocked down to $0.
This is certainly a problem which needs to be dealt with. It's frustrating but unless enough whales with equal power regularly use up all their voting power to flag it, it will continue.
Some argue it's like buying a mining rig and then mining with it. Some people buy Steem Power and then game the system to take rewards. It's a big discussion which I've talked about at length here: Self-Voting: Scammy Behavior, Rational ROI, or Something Else?
Either way, it's not at all related to my post here. If you want to discuss that, we can do so in chat on rocket chat or in discord.
I looked into this abuse a bit more and realized how bad it is. I wrote this post today about it, even though I'm on vacation with my family. Thankfully, most of those comments have been knocked down to $0.