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RE: Follower Count Report for Thursday, August 18th
Great that you have allready found @freedomnow ( I have the feeling that in this account all 803 followers are just his/ her upvote- downvote bots ). After this article below I was yeasterday on the hunt.
https://steemit.com/bots/@trogdor/i-was-spammed-by-800-bots-sybil-attacks-and-the-economics-of-buying-selling-votes#@lichtblick/re-trogdor-re-lichtblick-re-trogdor-i-was-spammed-by-800-bots-sybil-attacks-and-the-economics-of-buying-selling-votes-20160818t144301447z
Yeah... frustrating that people would put so much time and energy into stuff like this that just decreases the value of Steemit for everyone else. It's sad really.
I have bought from @steemitmarket, it became just interesting, for the sake of a trick.lukestokes, if I buy on your account? you will be on the second place how you will consider? I don't want to do much harm, but it is necessary to be ready, suddenly then someone will want to do much harm.
"for the sake of a trick"? If you could devalue and destroy something "for the sake of a trick," would you do it? Please, ask yourself a simple question "If everyone else did this, would it help or hurt the network?" More on that here, if interested. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
I love steemit.i have done much harm to nobody. but beginners can't grow up even with very good posts here (not as mine). whales like only
each other
(replying here due to nesting)
What you're saying is simply untrue. You wrote all of two posts before paying someone to artificially inflate your follower counts and upvote your posts. You harm the entire network by exploiting it and artificially manipulating systems that are meant to reward curators and content creators based on value to the network. If you consistently provide great content and build your own following naturally, you can earn value here. You made a mistake.
why do not you say something that whales use bots for upvoting other whales, and do not even read the posts? this is normal?
Hopefully this marketplace will go away as rational actors realize it's destructive to the ecosystem.