RE: GrumpyCat Weekly Report Thursday 05 April 2018

[the-resistance]

@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

Comments

[bashadow]

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.

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.

Bidbots : If GrumpyCat was totally opposing bidbots, that would also be understandable.This is not his aim.

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.

[the-resistance]

I agree it all depends on the "side of the moat".
At our side:

• Robin Hood is a good character taking from the rich and giving to poor.
• GrumpyCat is a bad character taking from the poor and giving it to nobody other than himself.

We can see the big difference.

As it is said : "we agree that we will never agree" ;)

@the-resistance