RE: Call to bot owners to block top 50 rewarded authors!
Bernie once a week I pay to get a post into trending. It's a panel discussion that supports and grows a specific community like artists, musicians, or lets the community hear from witnesses.
I think the metcalf law approach is correct. Double the number of users and quadruple the price. I'm hosting these events because I think it engages people and helps grow and support the various communities. We need these communities.
Here are my last posts where I didn't post a community event.
$24, 38, 16, 36, 44, 40, 46
Pretty sure that doesn't qualify as pool rape or top author category. There's not an event this Saturday. But there is next week. I'm gonna help that post along too.
It's frustrating you see this as troubling behavior, but you're free to do as you will. I doubt I can convince you otherwise.
You can’t, mainly because I don’t see circle jerk content at the top of trending contributing to what you claim you’re trying to accomplish here.
And THAT is the content you choose to promote.
Have you looked at my page and the resteems on it? That's the content I choose to promote. How many top trending articles do you see on there that I'm upvoting or resteeming? Pretty sure it's mostly new users and a handful of dev projects that are cool.
I stopped looking at your page once I realized your true intentions here.
My true intentions? what are those Bernie?
You can view how I delegate 70k+ of my 80k SP here: http://steemreports.com/delegation-info/?account=aggroed
You can view how I control a 120k SP account and don't use it to self vote. There's exactly 1 self-vote in the last two weeks, and I actually think it's a mistake by one of the mods with access:
http://steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=minnowsupport&days=14
A lot of what you do is solid. This attack is just weird...
And the other 99% go to Steemit circle-jerk content, I actually wish I didn't take look at your page now...
Can you site examples here Bernie? My wall is filled with minnow resteems and votes. You're barking up the wrong tree here.
I think this one being in your feed says enough... https://steemit.com/steem/@timcliff/the-steem-shilling-contest-round-2-300-steem-in-prizes
Did you read the post? Do you encourage your followers to "shill" something like this, misleading people into coming here?
"Steem has paid out over $20,000,000 in rewards to users since June 2016."
So now @timcliff is a cirlcejerk? He's easily one of the best people on the entire platform. He made a contest to help get Steem more investor attention. he gave it a funny name. The goal isn't to con people over here. The goal is to make a pitch as to why they should. You should be stoked. We want people here using this. We want investor's buying the token. That's how the value goes up Bernie.
Jesus. There's a lot of people worth attacking on the platform, but Tim isn't one of them. I think you need timeout for a bit. Something has you worked up. If the boogeyman on my page is @timcliff i rest my case.
He is not wrong, he promotes post that do benefit the community and assuming people who are on steemit more than 1 day still view that cesspit of a trending page, that would be something worth seeing. I like how @mobbs states it and that would be the route to go it seems , do not "punish" a select few , you need to "punish" all equally, because the amount of low ranking bot votes that go out on trash if summed up will probably also equal that of those who can afford the big votes and obviously then show on the radar as a result. Example I don't care how nice pinay is if she relied only on her followers she would be taking quite a hit. But ey once you earn more you gotta keep that wage gap anyway you can. Bots are allowed and I would even go so far as to encourage everyone to use them , but a cap should be made so this in itself results in a distribution of wealth instead of it takes money to make money.
My stance is something like this too... I only use bots on my posts I think they deserve more payout or visibility. I wish everyone uses them that way too.
While I see the problems with Bernie's suggestion. I quit voting for your witness and no longer feel excitement for your minnow program for the same reasons.
Why don't you pick a nice minnow out of your pond each week, let them make the annoucement and vote that shit up! I will back you 100%.
Anyway, none of my business, but it is annoying.
But why do you even need to do this? The bots are what created this almost entire lack of human interaction to begin with. Half the accounts you look at now, have delegated steem, they can't upvote shit, because they've rented out their power. That's not what the design of the platform was based on.