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RE: THE VULTURES ARE DESCENDING! Scammers and on-sellers are here to coin!
It is not a form of marketing that I either enjoy or that works on me. But it is NOT a scam and the "scam" tag on this post is abusive.
And, that type of marketing obviously works on many people or they would not do it.
Yes you're right, definitely a bit of an aggressive use of the tag, just wanted this to become widely known fast, and how better to do that? I will certainly try to use my tags more effectively in future. If I could change it, I would...
My apologies, I never intended to misinform : /
The marketing is what it is but I do consider schemes which attempt to manipulate voting or unfairly extract payments from the reward pool (as I strongly suspect to be the case when something like "upvote bots" is part of the mix), to be parasitic scams. They're maybe not scamming their own customers but they are scamming the Steem community and platform with this crap.
Upvoted Bob because of his good work in bringing sunlight on this and in part because of his use of the scam tag.
Keep up the good work Bob.
Thank you smooth.
I'm glad you feel the same about this. They are misusing the platform and completely missing the ideals behind it, which can possibly affect the longevity of the platform, so it worries me. I think this should be commonly known and outcast, but that's just my 2c.
Thank you for your ongoing support, I appreciate it and look forward to creating more content for you all :)