RE: Something Diabolic This Way Comes
Your posts are still good, however, I might vote you a bit less in future as I have seen that you are selling your votes via minnowbooster, which is one of the major abuse enablers on steem. Selling your votes has the consequence that now your votes can be found on all kinds of abuse and trash, for example on a comment of this comment spam farm.
If you have surplus voting power, why not support good curation projects like @curie by following their trail. This is not as profitable, but your votes will end up on quality content (like your posts during your first months here) and help the community.
(EDIT: self-voting my comments as I'm being followed by the notorious troll @way-truth-light, who is angry after I nuked a comment spam farm of his other account @via-veritas-vita.)
Wow. I found myself on there too :/
All I want to do is let my surplus voting power work while I am working and unable to actively participate on the platform. I found minnowbooster very valuable in making my posts more visible here... and increase my following (as I feel that I contribute positively to the platform). I don't think that they are all bad... but I see your point.
I don't like seeing my name in that spam farm. Eyes open.
I know. You upvoted that comment spam with 100% (via minnowbooster vote-selling), and now you don't have enough voting power and can only upvote @diabolika's post with 25%. I hope you don't expect anyone to upvote your posts - but at least you can use the SBD's you earned by selling your votes to buy votes on your posts.
As mentioned above, an alternative is to follow curation trails of good projects like @curie, were voting power contributes to rewarding quality content, the kind of content which gives this platform its value. Unfortunately, most users are way too greedy.
I doubt you increase your following by vote buying and trash voting, I suspect some users might be appalled by it.
They are mostly interested in profit and unable and/or unwilling to mitigate abuse. Don't listen to what they are saying, look at what they are actually doing.
Your other comment received a downvote in cancel out the upvotes obtained via minnowbooster (this kind of vote-buying on comments looks like cheating, doesn't it?).
I expect people to upvote quality content... wait, i actually don't expect that... I hope for that. I expect people to upvote posts that are going to get huge payouts so that they can get in on the action... I expect people to likely not even read the post they upvote but upvote it because they know the user is notorious for having whale buddies and/or spend $100's of SBD's promoting their posts with voting bots. I don't expect anyone to upvote my posts (I actually have my doubts about how many real read's a post gets on here)... I try and give my posts the best chance they have.
I am sure I did not increase my following by trash voting, and it was not my intention to be involved in it. In fact, after seeing your comment, I regret it. Now that I have seen it, I have removed myself from that service. Look - you ARE making a difference. Thank you... my hands are not clean but I am not (and never was) trying to flush steemit down the toilet. There are a lot of people who are though.
I can GUARANTEE that I got more followers by writing good articles and paying to get them seen. After writing some really good articles and having them disappear into the abyss, I started to use vote bots and that is likely the only reason I ever got an upvote from @curie in the first place... because somebody saw it and thought it was good. Voting bots, or very skilled ass kissing seem like the only two ways to move up the ranks on steemit (aside from buying steem) and I just am not a very good ass kisser (can you tell?). I hope that people that read and like my posts comment more than upvote because I care more about the conversation than I do about the 2 cents. If there are users that are appalled by vote-bot usage (and I am assuming you are) then I guess I can expect not to be upvoted from you (again). I also know that I have never paid a vote bot to upvote a post that I wasn't really proud of writing because THAT would not be right. I don't expect them to be downvoted because they are always thought provoking and well put together. Plus... there is a lot of trash that should be downvoted before my content.
I don't upvote posts at 100% anymore and had plenty of vote power to upvote her 100%. I handed out way too many 100% upvotes (personally) and then couldn't upvote posts that I wanted too. Minnowbooster will not be taking that liberty of voting for me from this point either. Don't assume you have me figured out. Thank you. I have been a big supporter of @diabolika since I started here and have also bought her upvotes with my dirty black market SDB's ;) when minnowbooster ate up all my voting power.
I was trying to thank you for making me aware of this and admit that I was wrong. Thank you for showing me (indirectly) that I was wrong. You are making a difference on steem.
On the topic of cheating... Take a look around. Your mission is going to need a lot more steem power to clean up this place. The biggest flagger is also one of the biggest 'abusers' and it seems like everyone is behaving as if they are 'free' to do what they will with their 'stake'. The trending page is the same usual suspects and the same garbage every day. It seems like the rules are in the programming and there is no such thing as cheating the program. There are a lot of experts at 'working with' the program. It shows you where people are at though. For me... I just liked my comments being near the top so they would get read. I think I am clever (I know, right) and make some funnies.
To conclude... I mean you no disrespect. I am glad you brought this to my attention. I agree with you enough to have 100% control of my upvote again and I will look into the @curie trails that you mentioned. I am likely going to write an article on this encounter (and pay voting bots to make it visible). I am mostly a student of how societies operate and think Steemit is a fantastic petri dish to examine. I encourage you to read it and let your position be represented better than I can do for you. Happy curating!
Here we go again Mr. self-righteous troll @bloom... just because you see minnowbooster while u spy my account and wallet does not mean I'm selling my upvote. It is just set to automatically claim rewards. Geez, did you see that I have my sp back long time ago after realizing that I don't like to sell my upvote.
I am so tired of your false accusations and self-righteousness. FYI, I never needed your upvote so get off my posts. I am so busy that I couldn't care less about anything you say. I don't need to explain/prove myself anymore.
I just came back after a couple of days and you're here proving your point again. Mind your own business for fuck sake! It is not your business to tell people what to do with their sp. Even if I sell my upvote, it is not your fucking problem. Fix your own life. Are you really stupid or you just really need some attention? Just fuck off ok. I will mute you forever. You absolutely ruined my mood today.
Don't send me private messages, don't add me on discord. Can't you get it? I deleted my steemit.chat because I don't want to receive private messages from you. Now you just prove why you are so unlikable. I don't know you personally so who are you to give unsolicited advice? You're just a stranger so please, off my posts from now on. Give your cents worth of upvotes to others. You're not such a big whale so stop thinking you're important here. No wonder nobody likes you here, get it? Be aware of your own BS, you are not high above there so stop being such a creep. You're not my friend ok?
Your opinion does not matter to me, I'm not asking for it. I'm not asking for advice. Haven't you read my previous post about giving unsolicited advice to strangers, it makes you look like an asshole. I don't care about you, is it so hard to understand or are you just really desperate? Go use dating apps or something else to private chat with women. LEAVE ME ALONE.
It's kinda sad you don't realize how much @bloom has actually helped you and probably is still trying to. I'm probably following you thanks to him, as I remember he resteemed many of your posts when you first arrived. I believe he's genuinely a rightous and caring guy, trying to do good from the shadows in his own way. I don't think taking advice from such a person is a bad idea. I know he has helped me out (giving coverage for my posts on the Kurds and the kurdish cause, very few others seem to care), I recognize and am grateful for that.
Maybe you don't even know what you are doing?
There is one way to earn rewards from minnowbooster: delegating SP to it. You delegated SP to it earlier, later undelegated, and this SP has now returned.
There is another way: letting them vote with your account. That's most likely the way your vote ended up on the comment spam farm mentioned above.
Take a look at https://steemd.com/@diabolika, there you can see your votes and compare to which votes you made manually.
The remaining ones have been made by minnowbooster (you granted posting authorities to minnowboster, this gives them the ability to vote with your account). So they are selling votes of your account and you get rewards for it.
Fuck off and shut up. Goodbye troll.
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. You are nothing. I DON'T NEED YOUR OPINION, are you really stupid or is it hard to understand? It is none of your business.
zing! that guy is a total turd who goes around down voting people without even leaving a comment.
True.