I am almost 100% sure that the 1k Verge votes that came in are fake, and hopefully, they will get purged from the contest. But I also discovered some of our users promoting fake vote submissions in "how to" guide formats, without ever mentioning changing their IP-address or anything... So we will probably lose quite a few votes as well🤦
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I hope we will win at the end of the day, it is really very sad when it comes to the greater interest of the community we have only 10000 people to vote, when it comes to spamming we have lakhs of people. How sad it is. I am praying for steem to win this contest, when i see the genuine effort of oracle-d, i really get emotional. How much effort and hardwork they have put over last 5 days is really commendable.
Either we have only ghost accounts here in steemit and to be honest it is clear testimony that we are hardly 10000 active steemians.
But one thing I am happy about is that, if the number of honest votes any community has got then it is steem only.
Lets hope for the best.
Thank you and Have a great day.
I am actually a bit surprised to see how few active Steemians there are out there at the moment, I feel this contest has really highlighted that aspect for me.
When most people dedicated to the contest has 4 or 5 votes over the course of the week, it means there are only around 2-3000 people really participating! 😦
I hope we win and I have a feeling that we will; but for me, this entire contest has been a bittersweet kick in the face in regards to the size of our active community...
You are absolutely right. This contest in Netcoins is a testimony that we are not a strong community in terms of size, when all the frontrunner and leading whales including Ned and blocktrades make a call and even offer good upvote size to the people, voting should have had like 30k+ at least. But we have only 11k so far. I wish we win at the end after scrutiny by Netcoins. Vergcoin voting are fake as far as today's votes are concerned.
In terms of community power, we have a long way to go and I think we have to rethink about it once again where do we stand.
I completely agreed. I am not sure if this is telling us what the real elephant in the room is - perhaps, steemit is not as active as a community as I would thought it to be. The numbers don’t make sense. I hope the fundamentals are still there.
I agree with this.
We have another vote buying farm in compete with us- INS currency based on Moscow, Russia. VERGE is in number three position. They probably bought 5000 votes in last 3 hours. For crypto-god's shake, somebody report them too.
UPDATE: 2hrs left, INS close the gap within 400 votes. We can't fight a bot farm.
https://www.votesfactory.com/buy-ip-votes/
I hope our users played it straight. Time will tell, It's sooo close...
A lot of dodgy stuff is going on with this contest. I expect the final vote tally to be very different than it stands now.
And it was :)
oh sorry
No surprise that some votes are faked. Maybe surprising that a @noblewitness is advising users to break the rules by using "every email address you've got"
This post has been noticed and linked to NetCoins. If STEEM loses despite it having been organically #1 the entire time, I would take a hard look at your witness vote for @noblewitness if you do vote for them.
This is stupid, deceptive, against the rules, and a major waste of time for anyone that listened to his directions.
Right! I now understand that your swipe at me was less about morality and more about having a go at @sircork. I see you two have a history! I acknowledged my hypocrisy, would you acknowledge yours?
He never will, that's why he takes swipes at users with integrity. The word baffles him.