If you're doing something unethical.
For instance, if you were sitting around a table of your peers, and everyone was sharing their steem experiences about what great stories they wrote, which ones got paid well, which ones didn't.
...and if you stood up, and say "well, I found a way to cheat the system." and explained how you do it...
If one of those people started grinning and said "oh, you're so bad, it never even crossed my mind to do something so evil like that to scam even more rewards than just contributing content or witnessing blocks"...
...then that would be evil.
Even better: If what you are doing is a secret. You don't want anyone to know what you are doing, or how you do it. Generally that could be considered evil in some way.
If it's so taboo that you don't want anyone to know about it, or broadcast how you do it, because you have an unfair advantage that would be negatively looked upon you if everyone knew.. that's evil.
Give us the exact definition of being evil here please, so that we can understand what that means and so that we can avoid such actions.
so evil is smart :)
I had a thought that if I follow as many steemit users as possible, that some of them might return me the favour and will follow me too. I have seen some users who are following like 5000 users and more.
Do you think this is evil?
If you have this many questions, obviously you're not sure of what good vs evil means. I recommend you sit down with your parents and talk to them about it.
I'm not here to answer questions forever. Plenty of people have written long articles about followers and "follow me. I follow you"
Go to www.asksteem.com and type in questions and you'll see lots of answers.
I even found this post for you through asksteem.com
https://steemit.com/steemit/@calamus056/why-following-too-many-people-will-only-hurt-them-and-you
But it's too late (really) if you need to be explained what evil vs good means in the first place. That is something you should have known when you are under 10 years old. Then you apply that lesson to everything in your life and you will do well.
It doesn't change the topic of my post. Evil works short term, not long term. Lots of dead bodies hanging around the steem blockchain from people who used evil and their hard work to gain followers now has to start again, with a new account. But then they kill the new account too, and start again. It's more work to keep doing that... then it is to earn yourself a good reputation and keep your good reputation.
You'll now want to know and ask "who" and "show me examples".
I'm not your employee, and I can't sit here all day catering to your questions, sorry, I wish I could.
You don't have to be rude @intelliguy. I'm not trying to be rude. I'm trying to be direct. Rude is the byproduct of that unfortunately.
my parents told me that you are an evil person, with your evil and mean answer.
Your account should die now ;)
The link you sent me, didn't give me the answer to my question if it is "evil" to follow too many steemit users. It just says about the effects which are naturally already known to me. In other words, I was asking if it is a reason to kill someones account.
Btw, how silly would it be if instead of detailed law in the world, the law book would be just "don't be evil, or you will go to jail"
It's the same as "don't be evil, or your account will die"
For everyone, evil can mean something else. For example I like to cook pork meat and eat it. What if I made a video and an article about how to cook pork? I believe muslims would find it evil, but I would find it good. Can I post pork cooking videos or are muslim powerful whales going to kill my account? I could give more examples...
My point is that there should be exact written rules, on what is forbidden. Otherwise there will be an open ground for unreasonable censorship based on someone's belief, political or oligarch orders...
You don't have to answer to this, I don't want you to feel like you are my employee lol, even though this is just a voluntary discussion.
I recommend you to take a nap, maybe you will cool down.