Interesting information, but a lot of rabbit holes and speculation which weakens the valid points you've made.
I have never met Zombee and I have had 2 accounts receive the dMania upvote. I did remove my delegation after I noticed some problems with the determination of who was able to curate based on voting power. Also, there was something odd about the ranking lists. I didn't have the patience to look into it.
What I do want to say, is that I appreciate the model of dMania. I like that the project gives incentives to delegate, curate and post. I love that they used rankings to make rewards a friendly competition instead of a jealousy point. In addition, I think the style they use is good for distribution.
I don't know if any of the allegations are true or not, but it is sad that success is attacked. It is also sad that success is abused.
I have no opinion other than some things did not add up, and it was bothering me enough to remove a highly profitable delegation.
Regarding the Crypto mining peice, check out the browser vivaldi, for VPN and an integrated mining blocker.
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Please read the article one more time, I think you have missed many points and the only rabbit hole is in your concentration on reading the entire article properly. And I ain't saying this to offend you in any way, I believe that you missed a lot of points and I know people usually don't take the time to read everything, being that it's a lot of information here.
Valid points that I made :
Second section : The 100% proof about him creating multiple accounts after saying you aren't allowed to have more than 1 account that post on dMania in the general section. Also you can see in the article that he told me in the PM that you are allowed to have 3 accounts... contradictory statements
Censorship in the discord channel against dMania and steem users
He upvoting abusers accounts with his main account and alt accounts without blacklisting them with solid proof. You can check that in steemd and steemdb.
I didn't speculate on the mining script situation. I only expressed my opinion and said that I am not 100% sure about this, but I think he did and further investigations should be made, based on the fact that he abused his delegations putting at risk the whole project and his reputation for some $. It's normal for me to think that and for other users that used dMania, that doesn't mean that it's true, maybe it was just a coincidence, but at this point we need to know for sure.
I also don't want to think that as a former dMania supporter, you are not interested to know if someone used your PC resources for personal financial benefit. And if that's true , who knows what more he did besides that. I want to know, that's why I wrote about this.
I know that you protected dMania at some points with the garudi-nutella meme situation and in other discussions. I hope you realize now, as I did, that the evidence on him abusing the delegation and censoring users can't be denied, as much as some people will like to.
I would appreciate if you don't try to change the main subject of the article : Abuse and censorship, by moving the focus on other subjects. Regarding the mining situation I will wait for a confirmation from someone that can prove if he did or not, if this ever will be investigated.
I also feel bad that such a good project was a lead by a good developer, but a greedy hypocrite as a human. It takes a strong character and vision to expand the project, unfortunately he doesn't have any of this traits.
I wasn't trying to derail the conversation, I was summing up that I agree some things didn't add up. I agree you proved some points.
I didn't want to take the time to validate your proof, so I mentioned that I liked the model and think it is a shame. I have pulled my delegation. Do you want me to tar and feather him?
He didn't use my CPU because as someone who is in Crypto, I protect my CPU. You can't call out all of the scammers so each person needs to protect themselves.
Ah, I see you just want the flaming torch folks to respond. I will not bother you again.
You can respond as much as you wish, I can't stop you. You are the only one who can stop himself. I know that you defended dMania for a long time in many comments (times where it made no sense for defending it) and I know that you are up to something here also, so I am just having some fun :) It's just my opinion, I could be wrong of course. In that case it will clear up in the feature when things cool off. I'm a man who knows to admit when he is wrong, so if I am wrong about you, I will be the first to admit it. Cheers.
Gosh, thank you for giving me permission. When you cool down and reread all of this, save the apology. Maybe English isn't your first language?
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Yes @mvielma25.this is just wow
got an awesome video for you to check out !
https://steemit.com/dmania/@fruitdaddy/i4zuf51f
Hey Karen! Thank you I just listened. Regarding equ1l1br1um's Proof, I was going to go back and look at it, but when I saw the way he reacted to me, combined with him throwing completely false allegations at you, I decided I am just not that interested in what he has to say at all.
Thank you for shaing the video. Peace. I'm off this thread.
I reacted to you in an elegant manner, you just wanted to push the subject somewhere else. Don't you think it's better to read the full post and proof , before commenting and giving your opinions on the matter?
Also I didn't accused karen of nothing, I just made fun of here. If you can show me where I accused here of something, it will be nice. I was just presenting facts and made fun of her.
Regarding the post , you should check also the comments and how the original poster apologizied for calling me a scammer.
Take care.
Strange to hear that you removed your delegation. I remember you because you used to get offended so easily whenever and whoever wrote against dmania, ignoring everything no matter how valid the points are like you own the project yourself. That happened with me as well..
Interesting that because I said there wasn't adequate proof to assume the crypto mining was done by Zombie that you would see that as defending him no matter what. I dislike hyperbole and character assassinations. I don't mind when people point out the facts, but they lose me when they start making up motives and assumptions.
I also have defended the overall project which has been attacked for having a model that I like. I support the concept of having multiple types of front-ends which reward content with different models and I dislike the angry mob style of attack on things that some do not like.
In this thread, I mention that I agree there were problems. That I removed my delegation. That isn't enough, I mentioned that I like the "Model", and that isn't enough. I guess I have to dislike them exactly the way some of you do and say nothing but bad things . . . Or I am madly defending it.
I am not sure what happened to you also? I am curious if you would like to clarify.
Nothing happened to me I just didn't like their voting algorithm and the barriers set around it, when most of the sp they got was delegated from steemit, too much profit oriented rather than helping the community and owner/s were too arrogant when the community pointed and asked to fix the problems and things like that.otherwise I never said I don't like the whole project and the project behind it.these are my personal views though.