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RE: PLEASE STOP POSTING AND UPVOTING, you're eating into my rewards
By voting for my "payout declined" comments and posts, you are supporting the highest-quality-community-approved-content of the top-earners!!!
I've concluded that the voting system is completely broken and will use delegation as an alternative.
Vote-selling is exactly like buying banner ads (paid-endorsements), which steemit doesn't seem to have the slightest "problem" with (I'd even buy some myself if they let you pay for them with steem).
Lol, although I do feel your comments and posts are quality, I am not sure I understand the logic here.
Great point, but if it's truly "paid endorsement" a user might decline rewards and pay for the promotion, otherwise, it's profitable "paid endorsement" right?
And I don't see many flags on the posts that decline rewards and pay for votes.
I think it's logical to "assume" that not declining rewards, and buying paid endorsement that is profitable, comes with the intent to earn from the paid promotion, otherwise the user would be willing to take a hit to promote their content.
Yeah, many aspects are broken alright, but given how this system works, I do find it hard to envision a perfect system, and that is probably why I'm just a lowly content creator :P
If I pay an ex-football-star to sign tee-shirts at my car-dealership next week-end, I expect that's going to be "profitable" right?
But you're not paying an ex foot ball star, you're paying yourself by way of paying for a profitable vote.
Ok, maybe it's more like paying an ex-football-star $1,000.00 to buy a car at my dealership this weekend.
They're going to buy a car somewhere, and if I pay them to buy one from me, is that "unethical"?
I think dealers already do that..."$1000 dollars cash back upon lease signing!", things like that.. The dealer is still making out in the long run, it's a manipulative tactic that gives the buyer a false sense of "savings".
It's not really comparable in my opinion because we have another aspect to consider, and that being the mechanism of limited reward pool and stake weight distribution.
I'll leave you with this my friend:
Back when I was an addict, (and I say it past tense, because I do not subscribe to all of the revolving door rehab principles) I used to get very upset with people who I felt were abusive to me or lacking in compassion, so I would justify relapsing by saying "well no one cares about me, so fuck it I will get high." In this respect, I was hurting myself because of feeling torment over the behaviors of others.
Be kind to yourself friend, you deserve rewards here just as much as the next person, and depriving yourself does nothing to those you don't agree with, they don't give a flying fuck.
Thank you for the conversation :)
I'll wait and see if it takes away any of their "excuses".
By voting for my "payout declined" comments and posts, you are supporting the highest-quality-community-approved-content of the top-earners!!!
When you vote for something that's "payout declined" your contribution goes directly into the "reward pool" which gets distributed to all the posts that make more than $20 steem, with the highest percentage of the pool getting distributed to the top-earners who are providing the highest-quality-community-approved-content!!!
So you're not contributing your steem to me, you're contributing your steem to whoever the whales decide "deserves" your steem (but I still get a small rep boost).
But hey, I still got around it didn't I, with some ENGAGE , so you got rewarded for your time whether you like it or not!!!! 😛
Thanks! Those tokens can't be downvoted out of your hands!!
I get it now, I thought this might be what you mean.
It seems rather sarcastic, directed at the top earners in a bitter way.
Not really sure what to say, but I get where you're coming from to a degree. Still, why not accept rewards? Being bitter about it and declining rewards while spending time to create conversation and content is not really cool in my opinion. It doesn't serve much of a purpose to me.
It's just my opinion man, but by saying that, it's like saying "vote me so you can support all the people I don't agree with", which doesn't really taste good to me.
Just being honest, but I do support your opinion, just not going to upvote on the bases of such sarcasm. It's rather negative to me, and lacking any semblance of positive forward thinking.
Ok, well, thanks for your understanding.
I've already been criticized for my voting habits and accused of "being greedy" (specifically for complaining about downvotes).
So I figured, in order to "prove" I'm not doing this "just for the money", I should go ahead and decline payouts.