The potential earnings "lost" from being flagged are returned to the reward pool. The only person who loses is the one who used bots to vote on their posts.
The potential earnings "lost" from being flagged are returned to the reward pool. The only person who loses is the one who used bots to vote on their posts.
Thanks a lot for the explanation @thatsweeneyguy. I'm not in favour of bots, especially vote buying bots and for a time was convinced by the argument that curation bots from the likes of blocktrades were an acceptable evil since they would not be able to manually curate and fairly distribute their votes with such high voting power but I am now much more in favour of delegation from the larger accounts to more smaller accounts as suggested by @stellabelle and others. I think a redistribution of power in terms of SP is a good thing.
Thanks again mate.
redistribution of power?
who's power are you going to steal to redistribute?
I think I might not be expressing my sentiments well enough. I don't intend to steal power from anyone. I think it would be a good idea for those who have a large stake in the platform and it's success to delegate, freely, some of the power they currently have all to themselves to some of the other members of the community who are more able to manually curate content and distribute the available rewards in a fairer way, based on quality of content, rather than for a fee .
It's been a while since I've written anything on steemit but in the past when I have, I have been quite open about my a lot of my beliefs and you have very kindly taken the time to comment and for the most part agree with my sentiments. The last thing I want is to control anyone or steal anything from anyone else.
I don't think I'm disagreeing with you but if you disagree with anything I've said in this comment, then maybe I am. :)
if they want to do that then nothing is stopping them.
if they are forced to do so then it's theft.
I wouldn't force anyone to do anything but I would suggest that it might be in their interest to think long term rather than being short sighted, unless the plan was always a short term thing, to be milked as much as possible til it runs dry. I really don't have the answer but I do think steemit has potential for a lot of good and there are definitely too many bots here already.
In truth, it's leadership that will ultimately win the day. Most of us at least are happy to follow the leader and those leading the platform right now are not doing enough by their example to make a difference.
But who gives a fuck what I think?? :)
I really hope your day is going well, my friend. I enjoyed your post. :)
I don't think that's the way it works.
During the whale wars
when whales downvoted whales....the earnings were just GONE
That's the way I've always heard it, anyway. The rewards for the post don't come out of the pool until the post is paid, so it would make sense that the rewards negated from flags would "save" them in the pool.
hmmmmm
when you put it that way...it makes sense.
so that would be all to the good
DESTROY ALL BOTS