@grumpycat has made it clear that he does not like bots or accounts that try to game the system. Anyone that uses bots or knows how to use them are likely completely aware of this fact. It is my understanding that the white paper for steemit does not allow for bots. I have seen post that claim 90%+ of all votes on steemit now are done by bots. @grumpycat gets no rewards for the the down votes he cast. He is in disagreement with certain bots of the rewards being given. He is using his vote power completely in compliance with the FAQ page of steemit. Disagreement over reward pool payout.
I have been down voted by people because they did not like a comment I made. Lots of people have been down voted because of comments they made. That is not the purpose of the down vote. The primary Purpose of the down vote is exactly the way @grumpycat is using it.
A better use of groups like yours would be to clean up the trending and hot tabs. They are screwed up because of the use of vote bots. I deal mostly in the arena of the new user, there is not a single new user on the trending page or the hot page for #introduceyoursef. It is full of assholes that have purchased votes from bid bots for the purpose of getting on the trending page of #introduceyourself so they can steal from new users. Once again I direct your attention to the FAQ for steemit. The #introduceyourself tag is one of the very few tags mentioned in the FAQ, and that is that it should only be used once to introduce yourself to the steemit community.
In conclusion, if you really cared about @grumpycats activities and the reward pool, then you would have declined payout on this post and other similar post. If you cared about the new users, then you would instead be trying to educate them and helping them to grow and pointing out to them that they lose money every time they use a vote bot. As far as I know the bots are in business to make money, not to give it away.
I would upvote your post, but I have a dissenting opinion.
@bashadow, thank you for your points.
Let me try to clarify.
The purpose of the downvote : We agree it is allowed, even supported to downvote in the whitepaper. Downvote is exactly giving undeserved payouts back to community and it is a self sacrifice. What we don't agree is downvoting of the minnows, with fresh posts and non-spam content. GrumpyCat has all the tools to choose the 3.5+ days bidders and spam posts. Instead, he is downvoting innocent people with fresh posts and calling them "collateral damage"
We don't resist his cause, we resist his method.
Bidbots : If GrumpyCat was totally opposing bidbots, that would also be understandable.This is not his aim.
You are absolutely right, new users mostly lose money everytime they use bidbots especially with small amounts.
We haven't declined the payout for this post because we are trying to make the @the-resistance user as strong as possible.If you check our wallet history, there is no cash flow from @the-resistance user to any one.
We only buy delegation of SP ( not even direct SP ) in this user.
I hope I was able to clarify some points.
Even thinking to upvote the post is enough kind. Thank you.
@the-resistance
When @grumpycat used that phrase "collateral damage", I disagreed with him using it then and I still disagree with it. To the best of my knowledge, no minnow's rep has been hurt by @grumpycat. He is pretty careful about how much he downvotes a post. If that minnow has been on steemit long enough to know how to use bid bots, then they have been on steemit long enough to know the possible consequences of using them. They are not innocent.
Grumpycat has made it pretty clear about what tactics he does not like bid-bots employing. He has never stated he is against all bid bots. (Personally I wish he was, and that there were no bid bots at all). The bid bot owners know what his aim is. To me it seems clear what his aim is, if there are going to be bid bots allowed then they need to follow rules and not be gameable.
I don't think we will ever agree, you see what he is doing as wrong. I see what he is doing as right. Depending on what side of the moat you lived, Robin Hood was either a good guy, or a bad guy.
I agree it all depends on the "side of the moat".
At our side:
We can see the big difference.
As it is said : "we agree that we will never agree" ;)
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