Background first:
I have been running the SteemDecathlon for over 2 years with 50,000 entries by thousands of users.
My best contest Memeday which allows people to create Unique content and contributes to the steem eco-system.
It is also been great to onboard many users (over 40 joined the blockchain through the Steeminati).
We have charity efforts on and off the blockchain.
We used bots that contributed to charities to promote our work in @bdvoter (bangladesh voter), @TreePlanter, @minnowbooster for example.
So to promote the contest and others I pay for bots to upvote it to be seen.
Now before we continue, I want to point out that I upvote to promote. And in capitalism (which this is) this is perfectly reasonable.
To also promote my contests I have also given away SBI's, Steem Monster Cards, Steem, Votes and generated Art and banners for many people and bloggers on the block chain my group likes. In addition we upvote others who are worthy.
Here are samples I and my Team have done:
I spent alot of time putting together that and other art (i'm sure much more time then most bloggers on the blockchain)
And if I have someone who is posting inappropriate Content on my blogs, I used my voting power to downvote... NOT FREE DOWNVOTES FROM THE BLOCKCHAIN....And I let them know with a response so they could correct their actions, with the following piece of art:
In fact when @flagrewards had a problem
Now there are trolls on the blockchain down voting unique content small rewards, because those content creators use there own money to pay for promotion. I have no problem down voting for content you read and dislike. But straight down voting because someone else pays for a service, without reading the content and not informing them is absolute garbage.
The worst thing is now they are creating a curation trail for auto down voting authors with out looking at content. So now other trolls see a big down vote and follow suit. Like a bunch of hyenas...
THAT'S A WORSE PROBLEM, Curation trails are worse then anything else on the blockchain.... essentially people now will join in on the most upvoted authors so they can get curation credits......They don't really care what the author is saying only that they are getting lots of upvotes. So in reality they are abusing the system as well!
Curation trails does not reward funny, original, thought provoking, content by unknown authors... it just gets more money to whales who post the same content again and again on a few subjects without doing much effort!
Case in point:
To tell the truth one really shouldn't give a hoot about posts on the inner workings of the steem. But unlike on other social media platforms where social media hot topics actually get the most views and upvotes. People downvote original funny content like memes, jokes, politics, movies (because they promote it) and upvote garbage about the inner workings of steemit's business. On YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms political commentary, funny cat videos and other innocuous stuff goes viral and gets people looking and watching. HERE THEY KILL IT!
In addition it means that anyone who is not already a whale or willing to sink a lot of money into the block chain is getting stomped on.....
In the last week THESE TROLLS HAVE DOWNVOTED MEMEDAY a contest I been running for over a year and a half.
Why cause I paid 1 sbd to bangladesh voter.... They took away my visibility with free down votes.... that is just plain wrong....
@trafalgar
@traf
@ocdb
@threespeak
@therealwolf
@bluesniper
@meesterboom
@stackin
@howto
@anomadsoul
@eletom
@kevinwong
@lays
@primeradue
@raindrop
@sospicy
@thevil
@vimm
@enforcer48
@pyqik2
@chops.support
@slobberchops
@techslut
@preparedwombat
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And all the others need to be downvoted every time they upvote anyone....
These scum don't produce content they just upvote through curation trails to get dividends....
If you have been down voted by these people and their followers, and wish to get retribution, please contact me on discord. (I'm the @thehumanemoticon)
SteemIt is not rolling back these disgusting changes from hf21 which is giving free down votes. So we need to fight back against them ourselves.
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every time I identify these trolls I will edit the post and add them to it
Please feel free to tell us about others... we need to drag them into the light of day....An then figure out how to stop this garbage!
I don’t agree with people being downvoted just for promoting their content with bots. The content needs to be evaluated, downvoting due to a $1 upvote is ridiculous. I am all in favour of promoted posts being downvoted to the ground if content is clearly used for rewards farming. If @minnowbooster customers are victimised for using our service, I am happy to get involved. We have taken steps to make minnowbooster socially responsible and we return 5% to burn and 5% to the steem.dao, furthermore there is a 5% burn on delegator withdrawls, these steps taken should be sufficient enough to stave off downvotes, anyone downvoting a good post using our service is just being plain radical. However if a post is promoted with multiple bots in addition to MB that are not socially responsible I won’t be in a position to get involved.
thank you for your view point and good service ricardo.
I understand your position completely.
The question becomes is when is promotion ok?
This is a social media network.
2 months ago I started my yearly NFL contests. In previous years I had least 100 participants each week in the contests. This was as easy indicator of health of a social network. I had less than 20 entries over 6 weeks this year and I even promoted the contests up to try and get participants.
All this garbage has driven users off the blockchain. And it is alienating more.
i do agree with you... @richatvns
my sister she is 16 wrote a post on how USA and other countries taking steps to clean space junk.
that wonderfull report made her a state champion and these fuckin' mornons just downvoted her beautiful report and she left the blockchain after her first post....
But still we can do nothing...
whales from the beginning doing scam now they just stopping us to earn some steem.
but since ihave only 200SP i am unable to do anything...
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we can note @markymark just showed up and downvoted me...
We need to get all the people who have been downvoted by these guys and work as group against them....
There are way more of us then them. The just focus attack people for a week or two
and then drive them off. And then they move to the next set of victims.
That means over the course of the last year alone 50 times the amount of people they attack in a week. Could easily get others to go back at them.'
By removing witness votes and all using our downvotes on the biggest whales payouts.
I will be putting together a curation software to take out first the small guys that support them then the big guys.
The Blacklist has over 100,000 names on it. Including whales....
If we even get a small percentage of them to help out we can stop this.
My community "the Steeminati" has 192,000 (sp and delegations), and we will be adding more. 2000 people with avg of 200 sp work together. There will be no more of this garbage.
I am putting together a plan so follow me and check in.....
We will change this garbage.....
You go around falsely calling me a plagiarist, you should expect nothing less.
I think the problem is that buying upvotes is seen as a poor way to promote. Buying votes detracts from the way steem is supposed to work. The number one reason for downvoting a post is disagreement with reward. It's pretty easy to disagree with rewards when you are buying them. Is this post worth $15 or should some be returned to the reward pool for other creators? That's the real question everyone should ask when they are debating whether or not they should press that downvote button.
You may see buying votes as "promotion" but others see it as you and the bots raping the rewards pool. A downvote isn't an "attack", it's a vote on how rewards should be distributed, just as an upvote is.
Hello. Currently there are a lot of curation groups and whales curating amazing content, the flag you received is to discourage the buying of votes from bidbots. We kindly invite you to join us on the #NewSteem attitude, where organic content and votes get the most attention. Buying votes hurts you, other authors and the Steem Ecosystem in general, please don't do it!
I quote from your only 2 posts
"@ocdb's mission has always been to support great content creators on Steem and we have pursued this mission through…"
Yea so you down vote funny content original content because they promoted through another whale and then send money to this?
https://steemit.com/appics/@gracelbm/alpha-kw-8-appics-im-36122
You are a real piece of work.....
Should the people I support start putting up soft porn and then you will deem to throw a few cents our way.
You are so full of it , it is obvious!
That's because she's a delegator, moron.
I know what @ocdb is. It's a cut out for @freedom, the biggest manipulator on the blockchain. It's millions of sp make 10 of the top 20 witnesses because of the upvotes.
It's the same group that pulled all the delegation from Steem Basic Income last year because they were getting to big....
You have not a clue what is going on and again you use derogatory terms that have nothing to do with the subject at hand. Your a troll pure and simple....
Again :
You can't read, that's for sure.
While I wouldn't have down-voted such a small paid vote this post is like something from a bid bot nightmare.
You complain that STEEM has a low value, yes it has. Things have changed and we all want the same result, yes? For the token price to go up.
Bot's didn't work before, so why keep using them on this post to an extreme? You think if we don't change things around here the token is magically going to rise?
Oh, is it's @steemflagrewards, not @flagrewards. bid bot abuse.
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see again you incentivize down voting with a bounty...
@slobberchops you, have been making your money by casting shade on others for over a year.
I INTENTIONALLY DID NOT SPELL "steemflagrewards" correctly because its an
automated clarion call for people like you.
You are simply a incentized bounty hunter who piles on everytime!
If you didn't collect the bounties put up by the plagerist markymark you would not be jumping all over the place attacking little guys.
And the patent unfair thing is tat bounties don't get released till it's been completely downvoted.
So you don't go after people with alot of steem!
Your a hypocrite, and a troll.
I've invited you many times to join in our contest and get upvoted by all of my community "the steeminati" but you'd rather get a bounty...
And yes I have read your comic book level story posts. And I'd rather laugh at a unique hilarious or failed attempt at a funny meme any day.
which we do
SFR is not ran by @themarkymark. Have you not done any homework?
Such flattery..
I don't recall any invites. Did you tag me?
Thanks, my confidence is booming now. I'm not a writer, I work in IT. This is just a hobby, nothing more.
plagiarist? Do tell...
I gave you a full downvote for libeling me, so put me on the list too!
I didn't much like the curve change, either.
But, I am getting as much, or more than before the fork.
I like the fact you meme...
Even if its not true....
Most people don't look at posts that have small upvotes.
But if it's a few bucks they look to see what's there.
I have no problem with your sentiment though.
If you don't want to look at upvoted content then don't look at it.
that's your choice.
Either way, You should play in Memeday...
Members of my community always upvote reasonable attempts at humor.
So even if you don't win, you win!
I do just the opposite.
If a post has more than 1stu, I won't vote it.
I don't care how much it has to read it, but more is not better, imo.
We would have many more users if nobody voted posts with more than a few stu.
Putting a .05stu vote on a post with 25stu in payout is just silly.
Give that nickel to somebody that needs it, iyam.
I got no real problem with buying bid bot votes for others.
As long as the author doesn't buy it, and it's not an abuse vector, it's ok in my book.
I'm on mememonday #31.
I'll have to remember to add that tag.
btw I am going to bot vote this to the trending page so join in and comment!
I fully expect the Trolls to downvote this!
Note the troll doesn't want free speech...
@odbc downvoted this!
I have seen many users using it incorrectly. In my opinion it should not be free at all. Many people abuse it for personal revenge. They're not scrutinizing.The authorities are not taking any action when reporting downvote abuser names.I absolutely dislike this free system.
good luck.. keep it up
preach brother...
They are encouraging flame wars!
A worthy comment by you gets a small up vote by me!
btw I am going to bot vote this to the trending page so join in and comment!
I fully expect the Trolls to downvote this!
@ocdb is mentally sick whale ,Who has a massive free upvote power from @freedom , First Thing is that OCDb has no rights to downvote anyone if he has a problem with bots talk to steembottracker owner directly to shut down his website because He is also a witness of steem , Ocd has a narrow mind , Ocdb only support foreigners who can write good articles but these foreigners has no value to steem they already earning steem free , Most steem investors are from korea and asia who sell their precious bitcoin to buy steem and with that steem they invest in steem coin buy upvote which give a reason for newbie to invest in steem , If only good article will be curated no bots mean no demand of steem , no value of steem , as we remember when steem was giving good reward The value of steem was up due to massive buying from reward makers who invest in bots , Most bots are running without investment even Ocdb is running on the free money come from @freedom so they cannot even think about the money value , ocdb has no rights to downvote you if you are not going to break steem terms and condition if Ocdb proof that steem terms and condition says that you can not buy upvote so yes we are then culprit , i request @freedom to take off His power from this ugly whale and give it to someone to a reasonable person. Most asian do not have high quality writing skills so what if they are investing in steem to buy upvote ? what is your problem did you downvote give value to steem ? even hardfork 22 did not survived steemit RIP .
@steemitblog has no team anymore and these rich whales are destructive to steemit .
Then, write in your own dang language. There are enough support in those communities for those content. You are just making excuses for yourself, behind an alt.
well i disagree...
i dont think u have upvoter for hindi, bengali, tamil etc...
u wanna say something...
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You can disagree all you want.
The fact that @bdvoter and @bdcommunity exist and a good number of them hang out in Neoxian City tribe proves my point.
I know @upmewhale serves South Asian Steemians with manual upvotes. A lot of people from Pakistan, etc. hang out there too.
So now your a xenophobic racist...
You are proving my point again and again....
I'm Asian myself, so we don't need your savior complex.
The fact that you don't know that Asian communities exist shows how clueless you are.
You aren't proving anything.
@enforcer48 most whales only support english content do you think if some one write in national language will get upvote ? how ? i have so many friends from my country but they not even have more then 1k or 5k or 10k power.
And what country is that?
If you want to target English-speaking whales, you better write in intelligible English.
@enforcer48 even ocdb is not a investor he got all free power form @freedom so he should not misuse it only small people like us sell bitcoin to buy upvote , you guys got every thing free here we care of our money but you have all free
Your absolutely right @andarchy is behind @threespeak and he's downvoting to push 3speak!
It's a bunch of hogwash....
richatvns? In the past two years that I've been a member of Steemit, I've never downvoted anyone. I may express disagreement or disapproval of something that someone may have posted. However, before I would ever downvote anyone on Steemit, it would have to be an aggravated case in which that person was abusing the platform somehow. By the way, I liked your article, and I gave it an upvote. :-)
thank you, and 99% of the time I do not downvote people..
I will comment....
But these flag trolls are another story....
They squelch free speech and counting view points.
The worst thing is they actually pretend they are promoting it, when in reality it is to force others to use there platforms, apps, and initiatives to avoid loss of funds.
threespeak from aggroed, ocdb and markymark are the biggest offenders out there.
Check out rentmoney's vote post from a couple days ago on it!
Hi @richatvns,
Its nice to see that I'm not the only one that think bot use and bot abuse are vastly different things. I created a poll and topic that I think you will be interested in.
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I definitely agree with you! It is a big shame on steemit society. People do not care about others opinion or the content of posts, they just easily click on the downvote. So steemit degrades from a informative platform to a platform where only money make a sense
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When I first started posting on steemit I used the bidbots to upvote my post. Instead of pointing out that I went overboard buying votes, they placed me on two blacklists. This was 10 days after I first signed up and I did not have a strong grasp on how steemit worked
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DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.I just wish they would have kindly told me that excessive bidbotting is against the rules instead of attacking me. Now I use bidbots in moderation and they are still attacking my posts with downvotes
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Even then, you still do that shit all the time on those god damn memes.
Hey watch the language... You just prove your Trollieness more that way!
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Still I disagree, biggest problem with Steem bad distribution.