It seems to be, that #newsteem created a new kind of bidbot owner; the disgruntled one, who decides everything that even remotely resembles "vote selling" is morally wrong and must be eradicated from the face of Steem. This person who is downvoting me, started as a bidbot owner, lost his income, and is now claiming his new income is in curation only, and that he's making a blast doing that, but that he wants to "protect his income" by downvoting anyone who receives a vote from vote rings or from bought votes.
So he started attacking everyone... but when his VP diminished, he apparently changed strategies and is now attacking only those who in his words "buy votes".
Some people have given in to his demands, some have already left Steem. And there are some who fight back trying to downvote him and whatnot...
I don't think anything like that works. A general strike, if it were realistic and everyone would do it, would have an impact, because he'd be left with a ghost town. But I have now realized that it wouldn't work after all. We can't expect everyone to join, and not everyone would want to.
The next best idea is to change the rules of the game he plays. If instead of scaring people, he only manages to throw gasoline to the flames, does he have a choice other than to stop downvoting people?
Some people claim to care for the platform and they say that is why they have invested money in Steem, but through their actions, it’s easy to see that they care only about draining the reward pool for their own benefit.
If some people would realize that only by creating a platform that is successful, we can get a really good return on our Steem investment. Earning more Steem while it’s constantly going down in value is not that smart.
If it was not for things like @OCD I think a lot would leave the platform and surely there would be even less joining in, so why would u want to work against that ?
He / she is changing now from what I see. I'm taking in fire for few weeks, but I never bothered the skip SBI. So what if he / she down votes. Even the best YouTube videos gotten some thumb down and nasty comments. I like the approach of focusing more on sponsoring the newbie. I might just try to do that.
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