RE: Steem Suddenly Needs 500 More Votes To Take The Lead Again... Vote Now!
I completely agree. We should have won this with our eyes closed. I have no idea why we didn't crush the competition. It's like you say: it was literally ALL over SteemIt, there was no escape possible.
I don't know how it ended. I was asleep when the contest closed. Last time I checked was 2 hours after I published this and we were 200 votes short, with 12 hours left. If I take that progress (300 votes in 2 hours) into consideration, that should have been enough to still win this thing, right?
And how about Verge? How come they get that many votes? Do they have a setup somewhere? I think I owned some Verge at one point, but sold it to buy Steem. Never looked at it again, so I'm really curious what they have going on that brings in more votes than Steem does.
All I remember is that I read something about Verge becoming the official crypto at Pornhub, but that was a couple of months ago.
yeah, I have no idea what was up with INS or Verge or even PAC coins, other than votes were being bought or people were cheating. They pared Verge and PAC down quite a bit a couple of times I think, and then INS came on late.
The reason why we didn't crush it was because, in part, there were people who were apparently against the whole idea, saying netcoins was a scam, or the vote was, or that it was all to get people's emails so they could start marketing other crypto to us.
I didn't see any of those posts and the comments about it until after the vote, though, and even then, they've been minimal. It's more like wait to see what happens and then when it doesn't work out claim you called it.
I didn't see what happened either. It was closer to 3.5 hours to go when I went to bed and INS had overcome another one thousand-plus point deficit. Something I saw this morning suggested INS had the most points at the end. The netcoin page says they're going to evaluate the votes and announce what happened sometime this week.
So, anyway. We can't ever seem to get behind any one way of doing things, even if it is in our best interests. Unless it's STEEM Monsters. Then people go for that. :) Somebody needs to be right about what's going to jump start STEEM prices/investments, so whatever it is, let it be so, and let it be soon.