RE: Go show some Steem Monsters Support today on Twitter!
Concur. Unfortunately, this is not the first time.
I caught a couple of revenge flags the last time I called him out for overvaluing his own content.
Last time, it was single family Christmas pic boosted to over $50 for which he received a lump of coal from me which I felt was appropriate given the context.
The usual go-to excuse they give is "But look at what so and so is doing. Why aren't you going after them?" which is a cop-out if I ever heard it.
He's also been mentioned on Twitter for his questionable ethics. It's people like him that make me weary of this place and the bots taking these bribes for exceptional votes on unexceptional content.
I don't call them businesses anymore as I consider it a false narrative. It's basically just another flavor of collusive voting.
My desire is to one day to create a front end (or even sidechain of Steem) where their votes have no value. On the contrary, their votes will result in lowered visibility of the content.
It will be a true community platform in which honesty thrives in contrast to the present state of dishonest curation.
I know it's a vision high up in the clouds but perhaps one day it could realized.
I am interested to see if I get a response.
I noticed he hasn't upvoted the comments with Twitter links yet but has managed to upvote his own comment to a dollar. I have noticed he has 100% upvoted several of his own recent comments.
A good frontend could solve many of the problems we have here. An improved trending algorithm would help. Something that would move the deadweight bot voted garbage out the way.
A frontend should offer a real promotion service. Promotion from bots is just a by-product of the high valued upvotes. Also upvoting a bot promoted post kills your curation rewards, so there is very little incentive to do so. I think the ROI is the main reason people use bots. We need a promotion service that offers just promotion and nothing else. Facebook and Instagram can manage that. So should Steemit or any of the other apps.
Also isn't anyone concerned that bots undermine the value of advertising on Steemit. Why would a company pay Steemit to advertise when the company can just create the ad in a post or video and then bot it to the top of trending.
My first reply to him was a genuine comment about blockchain policing which never responded. I reckon he ignored me because he knew he would not be able to refute my argument.
However, I did get a reply after I ripped on him for leaving a self voted comment kissing up to StInc. I used what I would like to call a weaponized meme. (Think it was a "Senpai notice me" meme which was received well except by him, of course.)
I use these tactics to bruise hyperinflated egos and, hopefully, prompt some much needed introspection. I think he already muted me but maybe he'll give you a response yet.