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RE: Circle Jerks - Let's Talk About It
You forgot about one type of the reward pool abuse where term #circlejerk fits perfectly. Delegate and get upvote scheme. It works like this:
- they are giving a small upvote to people from outside of the circle
- leaving a spam comment with information about circle and their discord
- asking for delegation
- running a auto follow bot to recruit new members
- running a upvote bot for members - auto upvoting members who delegated to circle, bigger delegation /higher upvote
Maybe I'm wrong but in my opinion this is abuse and I call it circle jerk
Yeah, I understand what you're saying about the 'delegate for a vote' groups, but I think it's hard when someone is struggling to earn on steem after a long time, and huge amounts of content produced, not to feel they deserve some basic level of income.
But the biggest problem with these groups is they rarely have any quality control, and it's for that reason I think they could be considered reward pool abuse. If someone is creating decent content (I see plenty of minnows like that who've been on steem for a while), and not earning consistent rewards, then they're going to seek out a way to try and find some consistent reward for their content... but those delegate for a vote schemes do tend to encourage daily post farming as they're usually one vote/day.
It's an interesting distinction, and I guess a question of where you draw the line.