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RE: The Tragedy of the Steem Commons
I find it amazing that steem developers do not understand the vote system, or that a person's vote is their vote to do with as they see fit, not as the developers see fit. If they make a system and they do not want auto voters, or bot voters then they should code their system to not allow those post. People are allowed to vote, to buy votes, to sell votes and to not vote, they can even buy a down vote from a few people.
If the app-developers don't like the way it works they can always try to but the top 20 witness spots and then suggest steem make whatever changes they want.
I didn't even think about one of these getting caught up in a downvote war. That would really be a challenge.
I did not mean to imply they may face that, just that now along with buying upvotes through bots, there are people that offer down votes via bot. The people that develop programs to use the chain, need to understand just how the vote system works. it's not like it is secret or anything, anyone can look and see how votes are being bought sold and used. Any single program that wants to say hey you can't do that, well their in for a rude reality wakening.