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RE: Closed Beta of Smackdown Kitty begins
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!