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RE: Killer Whales: Self-Voting vs. the Bid-Bot (A Thought Experiment)
I think it depends on the quality of posts of the first whale :) If the posts are top quality then the risk of being flagged would be lower.
Interesting, what about the quality of the posts
that are being voted on by the second whale?
Does that come into play too?
Well, putting 100% votes on trash posts is something people don't like I believe but someone would actually have to notice it.
Do you have any thoughts about the actions of the second
whale; selling vote power, in exchange for instant SBD profit?
Isn't that the same thing as self-voting
for SBD profit, except without the risk?
Which whale is more moral?
I've also heard a rumor, that when the second whale doesn't sell all of his voting power he goes out and down votes successful posts (reward rape) so that his posts will be more valuable when they payout.
How do you feel about that?
I have no problem with vote selling. At least it helps other Steemians. Self voting helps only to self voter.
Why would anyone down vote other posts for no reason. I haven't heard about this yet...
Sneak downvoted me more than once, because he disagreed with my content, and he is a Steemit developer. That is why I created the FFF-SOS creed.
Randowhale downvoted @allasyummyfood, she just posted her experience about that here.
Apparently, this problem of downvote-spammers, or reward rapists, or people who engage in soft-censorship, or reward poolicing is becoming an epidemic on the Steemit UI.
Steemit devs, will many times hide behind the beauty of the uncensored nature of the Steem blockchain when the topic of censorship comes up.
This creates in people, a false perception that they don't engage in any form of censorship.
However, on the Steemit UI there is clearly a problem of soft-censorship, and anyone with enough Steem Power is able to soft-censor posts on the Steemit user interface.
Here is an example of what it looks like when a post has been soft-censored by a Steemit Dev.