RE: Shhh - Sound to Put a Baby to Sleep (8 Hours Female Voice)
I did not intend for the post to be made invisible but it is incredibly frustrating to see this after so much effort has been spent to combat bid bot abuse on the platform.
I have been fighting bid bot abuse long before @justineh / @llfarms had been on the platform so maybe I'm a little salty and weary to see the same thing again and literally as the first post I find reviewing trending.
Maybe I think it is prudent to make examples because then we will see it less. I'm sorry it had to be your post but you placed it in a situation to be scrutinized.
How easy is it for an a user to move promotion abuse to an alt account? The decisive loss of funds is an effective deterrent so I don't agree with the overkill notion. If anybody else tries it, same should happen irrespective of what we perceived the user to know or not know. Yeah, it sucks when a user doesn't know what they are doing but feeling bad doesn't put the rewards on content that rates.
If we are going to promote to Trending, care must be taken so content reflects.
It's overkill. People are leaving. Steemit is dying. It's become a hostile environment. Exchanges will start delist this crypto. Poloniex just send out a mail that Steem will no longer be traded on their exchange. More will follow.
It's funny that so many whales go after 'bidbot abuse' which is mostly used by smaller accounts, while they keep upvoting crappy blog posts in their small circle of whale accounts to payouts that are multiply times bigger than sometimes good content of plankton/minnows that have used bidbots.
No one is going after whales, because you know, it's their platform. That much is clear.
I get your point, but maybe you're focusing your energy in the wrong direction.
Instead of taking out the little ones, why don't you take on the big ones, you know, the ones selling the votes?
You say you've been fighting "the abuse" for a long time, well obviously this method does not work: the bid bods/vote sellers are still there (and thriving) + the community is getting devided (judging by the comments).
Have you considered changing your methods? Because I fail to see how your actions help anyone...
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