How to join my Secret Voting Ring
How to join my Secret Voting Ring
Well I am sorry about the title, I just thought it was funny because so many users are asking me to join the “Secret Voting Ring”, the truth is that there is no such ring. Let me explain what is actually going on.
Steemit is a platform where you can make money online and as far as civilization goes where there is money there is problems, seems like fighting over money is inherent to human society.
Lately I have been accused of being part of a secret “Voting Ring”, I never heard that term before but I think it means being part of a voting circle to game the system and receive profit. To make that assumption, user @sigmundnash created a python script to determine certain voting patterns.
The real reasons why some Steemians are successful
I believe many new users could be seduced by this emerging conspiracy theory, so I wanted to quickly summarize why his logic is faulty and the “Voting Ring” concept is inaccurate:
Many users of the “ring” have been on Steem since the beginning, so it is logical that we follow each other and as they appear on my personal feed I tend to vote for most of them, a very good example of this would be @kingscrown, @craig-grant or @stellabelle. I vote for them because I have read them for over a year now and I like their content.
Because some authors consistently make good content, they tend to get high pay-outs, because they get good payouts a lot of curators will vote them to get more curation rewards. This is a circle of course, but it is the way Steem is designed, you are encouraged to vote for posts that will get you good rewards.
Some of the members of the “Ring”, like myself, have written over 1,000 posts, have over 500 followers and hold a reputation above 60. With this combination, isn’t logical that they will get high payouts?
People vote on users who have similar interest. In my case I write and vote a lot of crypto related posts and I assume people who vote me are into crypto as well.
Hiding payout amounts
I believe it would be a good idea to hide the amount of money posts are making. To begin with, I don’t think its beneficial to be attracting users only based on the amount of money they can get on Steemit; secondly, some highly paid authors are becoming targets because of their payouts.
On my last post I got a comment that stated “This post is not worth 300 USD because…”. I have also seen lots of conspiracy theories surrounding well-paid authors, which makes me think:
Why do we need to punish Steemians for being successful in the platform?
Lol at comments. Forward Voting rings!
PLAGIARISMMMMMMM! SUCKS!
This post is a copy-paste of mine: https://steemit.com/steemit/@chitty/how-to-join-my-secret-voting-ring
Downvoted for plagiarism
Do not steal other steemians content!
!cheetah ban
I just share the information ! Isn't this site for sharing?
Sharing and plagiarism are two different things.
Read:
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Adding Value to Steemit through Sharing
You can appeal here: steemitabuse-appeals
You can resteem other users content but ti is considered bad form to copy/paste or plagiarize other Steemian's posts.
It seems to me like I read this for second time.... https://steemit.com/steemit/@chitty/how-to-join-my-secret-voting-ring#@inber/re-chitty-how-to-join-my-secret-voting-ring-20170614t211949013z
It's a copy-paste?
This is a very thoughtful acticle and tho this is my very first day on this site and im just now learning u make very good point. I agree that hiding the amount of money a person makes on the posts is a good idea. As i was scrolling i made an effort to find the highest paid posts and i was curious how these posts generated so much money . Abviously to some it may seem as a populatiry contest and im not sure if that is a good or bad thing but i like the platform and the idea is very smart. As for this ring it seems to me that there would be no fraud or wrong doing in this . It is very much like real life in the sense that who you hang around will jave a positive or negative affect on you ... my dad once said if you want to be successful hard work is a big part but never overlook the fact that being around successful people most definatly play a huge role.