When I reply to this post it were a lot of comments; please upvote and, I upvote you, now you upvote me! something like that! That not cool they didn't read just upvoted and are waiting for upvote to! WTF right?
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@the-future was that in this posting or someplace else? Can you link the URL? Maybe I can help explain what's going on.
I believe it was here, It was last night,maybe they edited again.
The URL : https://steemit.com/steemit/@dantheman/vilifying-bots#@williambanks/re-the-future-re-dantheman-vilifying-bots-20160731t073610492z
I don't reply to a post, only to reply it.
Anyway I hope you are not a hacker and will take all my money :)))
I have a lot of money.
It was some posts like this one: That is cool! It is so complex! I upvoted you. Please consider upvoting my new post. https://steemit.com/steemit/@brianphobos/another-sign-steemit-whales-are-thinking-about-the-future. I'm not saying it was for sure this guy, but there was someone doing this.
Sounds to me like maybe an issue with the site. On my blog I started a concept called #payitforward where I visit other people's blogs looking for insightful commentary on topics I care about and invite the poster to come to my post, link in and I upvote them.
This is done so that if I happen to trend, then lots of people will see lots of other content. Some of it related, some of it not, all of it was important enough that I took some time to bring it to their attention.
The hope being that anyone who visits me will see these other topics and give them a shout out too.
The exchange is tit for tat. I link and upvote them, they link and upvote me. If either of us gets the attention of anyone else, then there is a good chance we will both be found.
It's just a different form of curation and is potentially more powerful than the way it's done now. If nothing else, people get insight into what I think.
So are you a hacker or not? I'm confused. Why did you need that URL?
@the-future #payitforward is just a new method of content curation that allows minnows to find eachother. I'll try to make a posting about it later. It's not a hack, I'm not a hacker. Likely someone was link spaming because that's not how the pay it forward thing works. OTOH I've never seen user spam a link before. Could also just be a display glitch with the site. It lazy loads a lot of content sometimes important things like style sheets don't get through before the content does and so you have what looks like the site has been defaced, but in reality the internet is just slow and laggy.
No I'm not a hacker. Not in that sense of the word no.