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Vote Beggars: You are put on Notice!

Let there be no mistake or misunderstanding. I HATE Vote-Begging of the kind: Upvote mine and I upvote yours. Here is such request, one of many I received today:

Sender xx:xx AM
hy,i will upvote your post if you will do the same

Solicitation after solicitation for an upvote in exchange for an upvote. My response to these users is always the same:

"Appreciate, but here upvoting on merit/quality of post, not for the sake of it."

I shall add the link to this post going forward.

Nothing to do with Marketing

There is a difference between promoting ones work, even other authors' articles, and vote solicitation that circumvents honest competition. The one is creating visibility - which there is nothing wrong with. The other constitutes depravity, the shameless begging for an upvote with the aim to achieve gain without honest effort.

A friendly reminder within ones' own article to upvote without a promise of a reciprocal vote is not begging. It is fair marketing. Upvote, if you feel you enjoyed reading the post.

So I ask:

• Are you vote-beggars just users, using the system?
• Are you vermin that try to make a quick buck but are incapable or unwilling to compete in a value creation environment?
• Are you condemning yourselves to lifelong milking of a system that could feed every investor?
• Are you scammers, determined to harassing quality content creators to vote for whatever you may or may not have have written, perhaps even plagiarized?
• Or do you indeed have quality content but have a warped understanding of marketing?
• Where is the value of voting blindly regardless of content, interest, moral lesson.
• Do you upvote content that goes against every fiber of your being?
• Is that not the definition of self-destruction?

Vote for Money - @randowhale

I have not entirely understood the criteria of some benefit initiatives, such as are promoted and practiced by @randowhale. For 2 SD, @randowhale will consider upvoting your content using the accounts voting power and monetary weight, which could result in greater exposure and a ROI. I would like to think that @randowhale has the integrity to reject spam, low quality, posts or would upvote lower quality in such way that the submitter just breaks even, in effect returning the money invested without profit. Perhaps @randowhale could outline the criteria? I would appreciate. That said, I would not dare submitting trash for upvote to a whale account or @curie,for example. And perhaps spammers are not looking to invest the 2 SD to promote their submission.

Theft and Fraud

It is theft, perpetrated on those who do take the time to think a post through, write, format, discover knowledge, develop wisdom and so improve the world we live in and thus raise the value of Steem.

It is fraud on the investors of monetary, time, and creative resources. What do YOU bring to the table? An empty, meaningless vote? I'd rather have none. Fake votes can neither compete with, nor sustain a value creation platform. So, get your act together, think, drink less aspartame loaded diet soda. Consume less, create more.

Encouraging an Upvote

So, fair warning to anyone with the fraudulent request to upvote in exchange for an upvote: I will flag your content (downvote) if I find it to be flaky, half-hearted or click baiting, low quality spam. For you are lowering the value of quality submissions worth reading. And frankly, I have no time for time wasters.

Rant over.

Thanks for reading and have a productive weekend.

ch @globobop

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