RE: Closed Beta of Smackdown Kitty begins
Wow! I'm sorry to hear you were one of the people that got stuck with the Poloniex issue. Hopefully that will resolve itself and you do get your money back. That issue is exactly what I worry about with traditional banking and even with currency/cryptocurrency exchanges; you rely on a 3rd party! That is why I am not buying Steem. If I could buy Steem without having 2 or 3 other parties involved, I would do it. Unfortunately I need to buy Etherium or Bitcoin before I can buy Steem, and I need to use a bank to buy either of those! Geeee! Why can't I just buy Steem straight out?
As for wandering aimlessly, I can see the attraction. You would be living as nature intended it to be. There is something peaceful about that. The soul and the body are in the same space both physically and mentally.
It is not just the blockchain that harbours liars and scammers. These people penetrate ever corner of our real and virtual worlds. Unfortunately for everyone, they do not realize that they will never find real peace and happiness in their lives by following that path. Sure, they will obtain godly powers and enjoy many luxuries, but they will never find the truth. The truth is that we are all part of something greater than us and we only hurt the other part of what we are when we hurt others in order to enjoy self gain.
I feel that you are a mature soul and have come to realize that each of us is just a very small part of a bigger entity and that by helping others we actually help ourselves. We are all connected to each other.
Do not beat yourself up. You tried and that is admirable. Take time to compose your mind and emotions. Seek peace and harmony. The answers will come some day. Peace and love!
Someone showed me also another interface to steem, where the effect of the bot's flags was to pretty much make the post disappear. It is only steemit.com that shows nothing. Busy shows thumbs down, that android app shows a big nasty black hole. Maybe it doesn't matter that steemit does not show it. A lot of people are still going to see it, just not on this application.
Actually, according to steemdb, the other gateways to steem are not used much and that over 90% of users are viewing the blockchain via Steemit. So it matters very much what Steemit shows the users.
Well, after having a debrief with @personz, we are still going to run the bot, and I can't see how anyone is going to call it an abuse of downvotes when nobody can see it anyway, on steemit.com. It does not take anyone's rewards away, and I lose nothing significant with that delegated SP to allow it to function. And busy and esteem users will still see it, even if they are a small minority.
The bot is not producing these downvotes from a random number generator, it's gathering a database of self-vote abuse. We are going to publish daily reports, regardless and the bot will do exactly as we planned anyway.
It is a minor setback. And as maybe someone else pointed out, maybe someone will come along and delegate 50k SP on it just for fun, then people WILL feel the effect, and the flags will become visible.
So the course is not going to be changed. I am going to take a different approach in my dealings with those who post inane, illogical non-arguments against what we are doing. It's called the 'Mute' button. I was doing ok coping with the shit and attempting to rephrase myself and use new analogies, and the simple fact is, we have a lot of support.
Thanks for your support and your kind words.
Yay!!! Go get em Kitty!
Hopefully whales like berniesanders will get on board with you and help the smack-down. He already does a lot of flagging in an attempt to level the playing field.
Calling @berniesanders hit that delegate button!