That's some story, and so touching! I am so glad you persevered after all those setbacks on Steemit. I'm not sure i would have had the will to keep going after being so beaten down by others! You are such a huge blessing to the Alliance! We are all so different, I agree. But we do have a common bond - the desire to contribute to the success of the others!(So different from your other experiences!)
I wish you more success than you can possibly imagine. Your son must be very proud of what you have achieved so far, but he's going to be even more proud in the future!
I knew about your other misfortune, but bots attacking you for Upvoting? Do the bots target those who Upvote at posting? I do that because I had read it was the thing to do! Besides, having run my own business for years, I learned pretty quickly that I had to do my own marketing and my own press releases, because there was no one else to do it for me! Am I setting myself up to be flagged by some evil bot who does not like my idea of marketing?
Thanks!
It's true we do all have that common bond.
The bots were attacking self votes on comments and stripping rewards, I don't think anyone targets your self vote on posts. At the time I didn't even know people were flagging such things or that some considered it wrong. For me it was just a way to recoup some of my costs. The main one was sadkitten ran by transisto. I don't think it's active right now lol, go figure.
Well, I’ll Upvote your comment for you! I’m so often tempted to Upvote my own comment on a post when all I see ahead of it is spam comments. On one of my posts recently, there was a garbage comment that someone self Upvoted to the tune of a few dollars! I’ve seen it a bit. I think it’s a way for those with a lot of influence to disagree with your post and make sure their point of view is seen!
It so annoyed me, because there was no hope that any of the quality comments could rise above it. I suppose that’s what the bots are trying to stop, but it means that everyone is targeted! We need bots with some intelligence. Lol!
Yea, those do suck. Best you can do is upvote other comments to right below it and downvote it as much as you can to at least lower the shitty one lol
Downvoting is flagging. Right? I haven't dared to attempt that yet, because I've read so many bad things about it!
yea, its the same.
Its really a weapon here, or a tool. Depends how you use it.
I flag all spam on my pages no matter what. I don't use it for much more than that unless absolutely called for.
Like the "please upvote me" comments.
Does the flagging use 100% voting power?
Not if you have the slider. Then you can choose how much.