RE: That de-escalated Sweetsss-ly
Nice to see you again after 23 days of no comments. Considering you post every day thereabouts and you actually get a couple commentators that very rarely get a reply, it says something. From what I can see, you are the only real content producer from that group and, you are actually a decent writer.
these 5 accounts posted 8 minutes apart:
Then a day earlier these ones 13 minutes apart.
You are very likely smart enough, what are the chances 2 days in a row? Not only that, the accounts aren't all the same out of the group of 5 but, 7 are represented.
1.amylee
2.maysun
3.sherrychan
4.helgachen
5.thecatfiles
6.angelatang
7.fergi
The only one missing is you.
Your posts are consistently out of sync with the other 7. Not "family"? You are the outlier from the 8 and I noticed that @ocdb chose to downvote less on you for some reason.
On a side note, @ocdb has a whitelist only with 3000+ names that have been manually curated for over two years of searching for content producers who proved that they could write at least one decent post. Most of them newcomers with low rep.
I have no angst, but this circle (there were more in it before posting nonsense) has taken out how much over the last 1.5 years? Should I get someone to do the math? And after sweetsssj was caught selling votes via memo with a delegation from @ned meant to aid community distribution, I think it is time that there was a little bit more input from that Steem Power and a little less extraction.
Let's cut to the chase.
You delegate to a profit centred enterprise where Proof of Brain is not enacted by each of the members of the collection of the stakeholders for which the enterprise enacts power on their behalf. Despite this, the "investors" receive passive return for not participating in any side of the Proof of Brain mechanism. This is not how Steem is intended to work.
The system was designed such that curation is absolutely integral to the end goal of finding what is valuable, and what is not. If you delegate to a bot and subsequently "extract" a return higher than what manual curation would yield, then the idea of value contribution (both from a curators perspective and a creators perspective) is effectively null.
It matters that you care about community aid, but your actions do not represent that.
You consistently appeal to ad-hominem (yes, a person's behaviour on the blockchain counts), while offering no rebuttal on your own morally fickle behaviour. You can disguise it in a plethora of ways but at the end of the day, you are contributing to the same result as the people you voice concern over.
Don't be a hypocrite. Sssj had power delegated to her with no rules attached. She never advertised a deal or any agreement to vote for those who sent memos. If anything, she enacted proof of brain and voted on the posts manually. The memos bid on her attention and she gave attention to the highest bidder. If you believe bid bots do any bit of good on this platform (clearly you do as the majority of your stake is delegated to one), then you wouldn't take that opportunistic stance to make unsubstantiated (and hypocritical) claims about how she ran her bid bot.
I agree which is why, I wrote in the post above:
But, due to the last 2.5 years on the platform where this was not happening and due to those who benefited heavily from the start but chose not to distribute, the goal is not here yet and without change, it will never be within reach. This is change.
It is a question of resource allocation. Do I let those who pillage take the Steem for themselves in ever increasingly powerful circles or for extraction, or do I play the long game? After a long time publicly and loudly expressing my views against bidbots, I chose to help develop one that is a steppingstone to something better. Whitelisted and filled with creatives, non-profit so it can maximize returns to both buyers and delegators and, one that is still looking toward a maximization through content and curation. And, I have openly talked of my involvement in all of this many times and in many ways.
So, while you may not agree with what I do, my investment into the community is consistently going up.
The results are far from in, but since I have spent a great deal of time over the last 2 years advocating for more randomization of outcome, things are finally moving in that direction. The vote stability that you and your circle have been living with for however long is hopefully coming to an end and then, you like most other people will have to compete for attention and attract actual support.
As you stated:
I agree, character matters a great deal and I think that since the vast majority of my Steem earnings are community derived, my character on this blockchain and similarly in real life stays solid. I do not run and I understand there are consequences to my actions, just as there are consequences to the actions of others.