Buying upvotes is it good for the steem it community ?
I am very new to steemit but people have been telling me the only way to get anywhere in steemit is to buy votes. To me thats just like buying likes on facebook. So in my opinion it seems like it would be damaging to the purpose of why Steemit was invented. It is just like using a cheat code or a bot in online gaming cheating is cheating. Well
that is my take as Newbie . what do all of you think it be nice to hear what people have to say about this?
It looks like one of the more powerful accounts is going to start downvoting/flagging the upvote bot accounts: https://steemit.com/steem/@grumpycat/warning-to-vote-buyer-sellers-introducing-grumpycompliance-mandatory-in-14-days-no-post-promotion-allowed-after-3-5-days
Regardless of how you feel about it from a community standpoint, just be aware that there's a good chance that people will be downvoting these posts into oblivion in a couple days, so you might not get what you pay for (or anything at all) even if you do pay for votes.
Im curious to see how that plays out but grumpy cat is only put a 3 day limit on bots not the complete removal
There has been no indication from the services whether they intend to comply with the 3-day limit, so you would want to get that cleared up first.
Buying and selling votes is not even worth talking about in my opinion unless you've been here forever, because someone will just come along and downvote your post into oblivion, like they did with my above comment.
Too bad users like @dynamicgreentk are more interested in effectively censoring new users who discuss it rather than engaging them in a discussion.Edit: thanks to @dynamicgreentk for removing the downvote.
Here's another example of retaliation if you even discuss voting: https://steemit.com/steemit/@contentjunkie/epic-reward-pool-rapist-grumpycat-unveils-fascist-roadmap
seems pretty sad that people just downvote to be assholes