You downvoted my content today without cause, to further your own pet project. Great. In my opinion, you're wasting an incredible amount of energy to spread bad karma. What a waste of the technical expertise you appear to possess...
I don't have any qualms about a user downvoting me, if they actually read or watch my content and find it disagreeable. That's life. What you're doing is just as ethical or unethical as the bots you purport to fight. The difference is, your bothater script will be doing it with power bestowed by the system for FREE, while the people it hurts paid for a bit of an upvote with THEIR OWN MONEY they have EARNED already. That's just plain unfair and wrong!
In addition, you are hurting the little guys, the ones who need help making it against the overwhelming deep pockets of the whales, who can push their content at will.
Case in point: I spend a lot of time and thought on all my posts, but I don't have enough followers yet to get any return near fair compensation for my efforts. So I use bots to gain a bit of traction and believe me, it's a SLOOOW process, recycling the same money over and over. Painful, and only profitable in the long run. I don' t mind, I'm in it for the long haul. Am I raping the reward pool?
I once spent several weeks to produce a professional documentary video EXCLUSIVELY for the Steem blockchain:
https://steemit.com/travel/@folker-wulff/voelklingen-ironworks-germany-saarland
(Don't upvote - OLD!) By the time I was done I got a ridiculous amount after 24 hours, just a few dollars. So I boosted it a little, the SBD ran up to 3.00 USD by pure chance, and I netted 200 Euros or so, for WEEKS of work!!! But it paid for the gas and the coffee.
And now you want to come with a shitty little script and piss on people like me? That's just wrong, friend!
Do you know what will happen? At the first unjustified downvote from your script, I will mobilize hell and high water to destroy your script's and your personal vote power as often as I can. And what do you think the commercial bot owners will do? The first full downvote of the day will be reserved just to kick YOUR ASS - and, boy, they can kick!
If you're sowing wind you will reap storm! And what will it get us, except bad karma and hard feelings?
I hope you will rethink your project and not release such negative code in the wild. Use your talent for something positive, please. I don't think you're a bad guy. You just haven't thought it through.
This may come across as strange, but the whole idea of these scripts is to accommodate some of the big hitters that are now involved in flag wars, allowing them to address their concerns about reward pool distribution. In the end a more fair reward pool distribution should benefit the little guys most.
The base idea is non-curation upvotes take away from genuinely curration driven upvotes.
I'm trying to be neutral in such a way that I aim to provide a different away bot for different views on what constitutes reward pool distribution abuse.
If there is a useful script for every concerned dolphin/orca/whale it's views on this, I hope their goals can be unified without the huge flag wars we see today.
That is, use flags constructively to attenuate false upvotes by whatever the script users definition of false upvotes is
Hope I'm at least making some sense here.
So, who made you boss with the mission to judge the value of "non-curation" upvotes? How do you get so conceited to presume to know what's good for hundreds of thousands of other users? God complex?
Your fine and noble "curation-driven" upvotes suckered me into investing in that video - and when I NEEDED THEM they chose to curate something else. So - BULLSHIT! But I'm not complaining, I take care of myself. Just leave the ecosystem the f. ck alone; it works fine the way it is.
From where I as one am standing, those votes I can buy for small money are a godsend and are giving me a chance to get heard. I tried to explain that already.
I came here for political reasons, to get away from censorship against conservative voices in Germany under the guise of fighting "hate speech".
People who presumed to know what's good for everybody (sound familiar?) turned my country - one of the most successful places in the world - into a failing cesspool of crime, rape, and violence. A rift like never before going through society, public order slowly collapsing, to the point where only censorship can keep the system going.
So I come here and have to put up with the same bullshit? Leave well enough alone - you'll be doing us all the biggest favor. (Remember, I will not be cowed.)
Still waiting for an answer regarding @randystieffer. (ASKED AND ANSWERED ELSEWHERE - THANK YOU)
And a few more questions:
Do you think I will be doing an extensive video production like the one I mentioned any time soon?
Will I keep my money in this ecosystem, promoting my posts, or will I cash out and run with your script out there?
To make money here, I also could invest a few thou, post shallow bullshit like cat photos and such, upvote them myself, and still find enough suckers to vote along. Is that the Steemit you want?
E-X-A-C-T-L-Y !!!
Think you are missing the point. The "boss" is all of us here according to SP and how we all choose to use it. What I am trying to do is provide the tools to allow people to exersise their democratic right to improve the steemit eco system how they feel it should operate. Have an other way you think will contribute to making the reward pool more fair by using excess voting power to attenuate unfairness with directed DV's, just add an issue to the github project and I'll work on making it part of the set.
Again, I just ran a short test with downvotes worth tiny fractions of a cent. If, when the bugs are out, minnows, dolphins or even orca's or whales opt to use one of my scripts is up to them. I'm just writing whatever I believe expresses the concerns I've heard on discussions, that could include your own concerns if you can explain them in a way that could allow me to write a script for it.
No, friend, YOU are missing the point. Edward Teller, the inventor of the H-bomb, wasn't a bad man. He just wanted to "provide the tools" to force apple pie and the American way on all mankind 'cause daddy knows best.
Don't you see? You're providing a tool that allows the money men to kill the remedy free market forces have created for the great unwashed masses.
I mean no offense, honest, but the term "useful idiot" springs to mind. Just to make the point one last time in the strongest way.
If you haven't got it so far you never will. I will not crochet a cozy for your H-bomb on Github, of course not.
Just keep away from my posts and we'll stay friends.
Be well - Folker