RE: Call to bot owners to block top 50 rewarded authors!
Bernie once a week I pay to get a post into trending. It's a panel discussion that supports and grows a specific community like artists, musicians, or lets the community hear from witnesses.
I think the metcalf law approach is correct. Double the number of users and quadruple the price. I'm hosting these events because I think it engages people and helps grow and support the various communities. We need these communities.
Here are my last posts where I didn't post a community event.
$24, 38, 16, 36, 44, 40, 46
Pretty sure that doesn't qualify as pool rape or top author category. There's not an event this Saturday. But there is next week. I'm gonna help that post along too.
It's frustrating you see this as troubling behavior, but you're free to do as you will. I doubt I can convince you otherwise.
While I see the problems with Bernie's suggestion. I quit voting for your witness and no longer feel excitement for your minnow program for the same reasons.
Why don't you pick a nice minnow out of your pond each week, let them make the annoucement and vote that shit up! I will back you 100%.
Anyway, none of my business, but it is annoying.
But why do you even need to do this? The bots are what created this almost entire lack of human interaction to begin with. Half the accounts you look at now, have delegated steem, they can't upvote shit, because they've rented out their power. That's not what the design of the platform was based on.