If you pay upvote services to vote you're ruining STEEM

Upvote services were designed to break intention of STEEM to discourage self-upvoting and encourage voting other peoples posts.

Those users who delegate their power to these services make most of the profit from the vote, they get paid, in cash, to vote. They are selling the principal of defraying shame from people who want to cheat the system by using their company shares to pay out to themselves and nobody else.

source Minnowbooster website

The only difference from evil whales stealing the reward pool by upvoting themselves with all their investment is that these services now enjoy the middleman seat, taking capital from the poor to give profit to the rich to accomplish this, so minnows lose all their spending power on STEEM (all your SBD gets spent in the hopes of having some gain 7 days later), and earn a tiny fraction of the profit from the exchange, the service and the SP delegator taking all the rest.

How does that affect the regular 'Joe' on STEEM?

It's reducing your payouts to a mere trickle and the voting power of new users to dust, and its doing that to everyone elses posts too! You are literally taking rewards away from everyone else and paying to make that happen, and most of the profit doesn't go to you, it goes to the delegator, its calculated that way.

If you use upvote services that have whitelists, you are encouraging nepotism on STEEM

I empowers a system that puts votes in the hands of some, and destroying equal opporunity.

And they have now gone even further down the evil rabbit hole by introducing a whitelist, if you're not on that list (people can only be enrolled by the administrative users) then the votes you receive appear as dribs and drabs, you don't get the advertised amount, your votes often get subdivided between 30-60 different voters and you'll be limited to only receive votes from a pool that never has any votes available.

So they have a list of users with perks, whats wrong with that?

It's done to produce the public impression that they are preventing abuse, they're holding back non-abusive true bloggers from the list on the sly while enrolling all their buddies (many who do make low value posts, like rewrites of google research, advertising shows and services with shorthand etc, not blogs) on the whitelist, the same power that was built up from your payments, is now used to boost a select few with votes they would never receive organically, and promoting many posts that still receive no organic attention, while leaving the rest of the network hanging, people who actually use STEEM for blogging and want to grow their accounts the intended way.

So what am I supposed to do?

If you absolutely feel like you have no choice but to pay for users to invest their voting power in your posts, rather team up with a user who has some power and pay them personally for your votes if you want arranged votes for promotion, if you use services like this you are taking the decision of who gets what from the reward pool away from the noble ledger and handing it to a bunch of corrupt humans.

Are there any other options at all?

We have put together a free, altruism-oriented upvote service where you never pay for upvotes, in time, it will snowball and automatically outrun all paid services, you get refunded, in votes, for your own votes, and the group receives all the excess evenly. It serves to take all the shares that the middlemen currently enjoy by taking your cash over and over again and instead attributes all its profit to the group.

ॐ we are one ॐ

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