I do not consider the removal of rewards from abusers and the redistributing of reward funds to the rest of the community as a waste of voting power. Much to the contrary, I consider it the responsibility of high SP accounts such as yourself.
You have already recovered the rewards a million times over through selling your voting power that you are supposed to be using to reward quality content(and that you are still receiving curation rewards on your sold votes for doing so).
Also, you paid for these votes? I would have thought you had been here long enough to know that I am not as shortsighted as your average Steemit user. Yes, you might have paid for them. But you also sold them. So you bought them from yourself, meaning that you will earn;
- The payout from this post.
- The curation rewards from this post.
- The SBD that was "spent" on purchasing the votes.
So, remind me again. What exactly did you pay?
That was rhetorical. I don't care for a wasteful back and forth. I want only for you to make an attempt to overcome your fear. It is clear you are afraid of looking as though you have lost; you are afraid of losing what you have accumulated; and you are afraid of not being the biggest fish in the pond forever.
It's time to grow up, Bernie. I know you are not half the cunt you purport yourself to be. When you are ready to challenge yourself, as a man does, and see if you can still be a winner without having to cheat, and perpetuate an economy of losers, then I will do, as a man does, and put all the bullshit you have done behind me and offer you my support to help you achieve that end.
Some of us have been in this space together for a long time now. Love it or hate it, we have become somewhat of a family, and STEEM our child that we are raising in the wrong fucking way. If we don't stop projecting the worst parts of us onto our baby, in its infancy, then I can assure you that what we raise into the world will be monstrous. I speak to a decade or two in the future in this instance, and I mean every word. Much like a natural child will be greatly impacted by events in their earliest years, so too will this network we call STEEM. If we start approving of shit that we should not right now, in a couple of years it will be the norm and there will be a far more abusive things going on that we are questioning; and so on and so forth until the very notion of community has been defeated.
However, if we can summon the courage to take a step forward and decide that we are going to try and do this the right way, and see if we can still achieve what we want, then perhaps the abuse that is stomped out in these early days will set a strong principle that will lead STEEM to a place of usefulness and benefit to the society of the future. Instead of just more of the fucking same.
The ONLY bot of my own that I used was @randowhale. The rest of the large votes on this post are NOT my bots.
I didn't read past that because I'm assuming it's pure bullshit just like the beginning of your ignorant rant. You need to get a clue, right now you haven't got one.
Don't attempt to obfuscate the issue. @randowhale may or may not be the only bot of yours that has upvoted this post, but several of your other accounts have. Also, I have seen no evidence that you are not transisto, and so for all I know they're fucking all you.
But either way it does not matter. I have said my piece, and I won't keep giving you more excuses to rape the reward pool via comment upvotes.
Also, we all know you read it. And your electing to pretend you did not only highlights my point. It is time to grow up, Bernie. And that means start living up to the responsibilities that come with being a highly influential member of an economy that determines the well-being of (soon)millions-- and their families.
I'm going to grow up by making sure nobody sees the bullshit lies you are spreading, to start.
Thank you for the flags. They were very informative.
Also; feel free to quote me on one of these lies you speak of. I doubt you shall find one.
"determines the well-being of (soon)millions-- and their families" - fucking moron
I have to say, this message makes me happy. I was beginning to wonder if you were truly just sadistic, but it appears you are just ignorant.
I am just one person, and the comfort by which six lives are lived is determined primarily by my income on Steemit.
I'm just one blogger on here. What about all the minnows who have turned up here having been online looking for potential ways to feed their children after losing their jobs or some other reason.
You underestimate just how many people could benefit, or at least keep from poverty through this platform.
I know that not everyone deserving of rewards, but plenty are. And as STEEM grows, which it very likely will, we will see hundreds of thousands of new people arriving, most of whom I would imagine have other lives impacted greatly by their income.
My estimation is not an exaggeration. I exaggerate only for comedic purposes, and I see nothing funny about what is going on here. No. I would sooner say that it is breaking my heart to watch what we are all doing with something we could have used so much more productively.
LOL you rely primarily on Steemit to support 6 lives and I’m the ignorant one?!?
I suggest you find another source of income pretty quick...
I originally came here looking to comment on a whales (berniesanders) post to be seen and notice. I thought you (son of satire) were just antagonizing bernie but I agree with you. I now get what your are trying to say. It takes courage risking being flagged by bernie. I know we are all humans and make mistakes. One thing I just learned from your comment, is that there are people here on Steemit who use it as a source of income to feed their family. That makes me very sad. I am a working man with two kids and a wonderful wife. I make decent money but only held back by stupid student debt and other life's debt. I hope Steemit will be a good source of income that one day will allow me to fulfill my dreams and spend more time with the family. Ironic thing is, the time I spend on steemit, I can literally spend with my family. lol. I know I will make it big one day. Some lady prophesied I will be rich. That means I will be a future whale on Steemit. On that day, I hope I can stay humble to contribute back to the steemit community and not get money greedy.
That would be an awesome thing to do as a whale. Find people who need financial help and support them for a bit and encourage them. Get them on the right path. I know youtubers do collaboration to get their channels notice by other fans. Maybe something like that... anyhow take it easy guys and keep on Steeming!
FEEL THE BURN
Flagging you on this thread for
-abuse of your multiple sock puppet Steemit accounts used to upvote yourself
-abuse of your multiple sock puppet Steemit accounts to abusively downvote other Steemers.
-unmerit rewards
-overall abusive behavior
Well you guys are having a swell time going on each other like. Well @son-of-satire I want you to know that I need help in what form.
I am afraid I do not understand. Can you elaborate?