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RE: [streemian.com] 3M votes milestone, curation statistics, max post ages, bugfixes and partnership with @curie
Good.
Hmm.. Self-voted with customers' accounts? To be clear, my question is not an accusation. The tech used is quite advanced.
Hello @abit,
thanks for your comment!
We did indeed upvote the post with the voting power of streemians' users. In middle december we sent out an email to all of our users and also made a public announcement that we will eventually use their voting power to support our efforts. we have done everything in our hand to make it as easy to our users to opt-out and disagree with this voting. This is how it looks in the profile of our users:
By then, we have used this to support 5 (five) of chainsquad's posts according to our users settings.
We also recognize the alignment issue between those that use the service and those that pay for this kind of support. For this reason, we have decided to only add upvotes to our own posts if they are 100%-SP-payouts.
Ideally, we'd like to move over to declining payouts for these kind of posts, but we cannot currently afford it.
Let me repeat this again:
Dear Streemian Users: If you disagree with streemian using your voting power to rarely upvote and promote its own content, please remove your support in your profile settings.
Dear Steem investors, we are sorry for taking out a fraction of the reward pool using the voting power of our customers, but, at the current stage, we couldn't fund the servers (let alone development) to keep streemian running without your support!
Regards
-- Fabian
Thanks for the reply. Keep up the good work!