How To Destroy Steemit in 3 Easy Steps!

mkt (66) · 7 years ago

This is exactly what I want. Sometimes I really would like to push my own comment a little bit so it gets noticed by more people. But I don't do it (99% of the time) because I have a bad feeling about it. Removing the monetary reward would be perfect. Although maybe then all comments will have at least 1 upvote.

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igster (63) · 7 years ago

I also like the idea. Others could still reward your comment.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

I know because I feel the same way! I want to upvote my GIF, or whatever, but I don't want the money......

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago (edited)

OMG... this seems to be even more relevant if an upvote is worth $10.... :D Thank you!
But when I think about it... one could upvote an own comment with only 1%, reducing the payout. I've even seen upvotes of less than 1%... I wonder how this is possible. Can you go under 1% if you're bigger?

(Oh and also thanks for raising my reputation score... :D)

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

hey, you did this all yourself, by adding some logic and care to my post! I can upvote with 1%, sure. I decided to upvote at full strength, to prove a point....rewarding others is the ORIGINAL REASON THIS PLATFORM WAS CREATED. We cannot judge our own comments, and even our own posts. We also cannot give ourselves our reputation score. That is GIVEN BY OTHERS. People need reminding of these basics.....and understanding that PEOPLE ON HERE WHO STARTED OUT WITH NOTHING BECAME INFLUENTIAL (and earned Steem IN THE PROCESS). I didn't become influential by upvoting my own comments. That is NOT THE WAY.

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11 votes

farmandadventure (56) · 7 years ago

I feel like I am clawing my way to higher rep and higher SP and it feels great! It's the same feeling when you start a garden. You clear the area (laying the foundation), plant your seeds (gaining friends and posting), and reap the bounty! The work doesnt stop there though. You have to keep it up. The bounty keeps coming over time and work.

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road2wisdom (63) · 7 years ago

I have been down with yunk from almost the very start when it was just whispered in the chat room! HEee HEEe
Yunktastic idea
It can be a noun, verb, adjective! But it goes deeper than that as we see here :0) Happy it's gaining transaction here to support.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

At one percent, I'm now at $.18

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mkt (66) · 7 years ago

$.08 at 100% (88% voting power) :D

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millionairemark (49) · 7 years ago

@stellabelle how did you end up with that much SD?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Commented on others.
Made friends.
Kept friends, worked on social skills.
Blogged every day.
Found Steemit in 2016, and became obsessed.

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9 votes

braxton101 (58) · 7 years ago

Just followed you!

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reroelbuton (47) · 7 years ago

Thanks stellabelle this what I am doing now, blogged is a bit hard for me so you can see me most on commenting.

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xxjackintheboxx (51) · 7 years ago (edited)

Good rules to follow, followed you also. Commenting is more harder for me than blogging i don't get it, but i am learning.

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flexcougar (45) · 7 years ago

She has been around since the beginning and actually added value to the system. That is why she has such a high voting power(FYI).

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

your real questions should be: how did you end up with 74 rep score.... these are interrelated.
Everyone discounts the true value here: social capital.

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millionairemark (49) · 7 years ago (edited)

So how did you end up with 74 as your rep score?

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

she just told you... "social value"
I am learning fast here used to upvote now I dont..poor minnow they come here with false ideas...who to blame? I even made a post on how to self up vote ...ehhh...now am just sticking to my "social value" I can offer here and that is drawing and all kinds of graphics art and who knows maybe start making short stories ... but I know everything has its own time and I like to give everything its own time..."fermentation"...in this motheryunker lol...(i like to joke a lot)...ride on steemians!!!

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trendo (58) · 7 years ago

Upvoting your own comments without any monetary rewards would fix this a lot ! Would love to see this happen.

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11 votes

xyzashu (75) · 7 years ago

Even upvoting your own comments without any monetary reward shouldn't be a feature if it gets pushed up according to voter's SP. You can never be a fair judge to your own comment. Most people are biased when judging themselves. Let others judge their content's worth.

If there needs to be a feature for upvoting yourself, it should be just for the sack of novelty.

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6 votes

personz (66) · 7 years ago

You can never be a fair judge to your own comment.

Totally agree! 💯

I also think this applies to posts, not just comments. As you say, "let others judge their content's worth".

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teamsteem (74) · 7 years ago

Wouldn't that leave people to simply create sock puppet account? I think this isn't a viable solution.

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anarcho-andrei (64) · 7 years ago

Creating a ton of sock accounts would requires vastly more effort and time than an auto-vote bot, unless I'm mistaken. That's a disincentive to pursuing that particular course of action, especially given that new accounts have practically no weight at all.

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teamsteem (74) · 7 years ago

Wouldn't it necessitate only one sock puppet account. It could be seen negatively to upvote its own comment this way but it still could be done.

At this point I tend to disagree with this solution and I'm still unsure about the course of actions that should be taken.

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rycharde (63) · 7 years ago

I agree with @teamsteem, the creation of just one sock-puppet account is an almost negligibly small discomfort to the average (ab)user. That's why my own algorithms have always treated self-votes and sock-puppet-votes the same.

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xyzashu (75) · 7 years ago

Can't agree more! In fact, Steemit does not differentiate in a post or a comment and count them together as "posts". But while creating a post, "Upvote post" check box is checked by default and that is discriminatory of Steemit. This default setting makes us think that we should upvote our posts ...and by analogy, upvote our comments too. It's all beyond me.

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deirdyweirdy (61) · 7 years ago

Actually, this has been changed now and the default is not to upvote your own post. You must now check the box to self-vote.

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personz (66) · 7 years ago

Yep, that was a change I submitted too :)

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deirdyweirdy (61) · 7 years ago

And a good one. Well done you!

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anarcho-andrei (64) · 7 years ago

I understand what you mean, but they're clearly differentiated here on the UI, which would lead me to think that differentiating them via the blockchain shouldn't be particularly difficult.

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

motheryunker, u nailed it...

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metabs (50) · 7 years ago (edited)

I have only upvoted my own comments to avoid them fall bellow an army of bot comments, which are annoying, don't provide any new things to the conversation and only generate spam that can avoid real people reading comments from real people.
In my case, my upvote doesn't give me back any money, but anyway, completely agree with the proposal of not receiving money at all for everyone self-upvoting

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

and providing good answers continues to earn you rewards from others....EXACTLY WHY THIS PLATFORM WAS CREATED.

trendo (58) · 7 years ago

Indeed. It would bring much better engagement on every post and that's what we need !

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

I almost upvoted my own comment (lulz)

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improv (67) · 7 years ago

Why not just disallow all self-voting? Of course there are workarounds, but I don't understand the desire to allow it "for visibility". Doesn't everyone want more visibility? If everybody would do this, then nobody should do this, as it would all cancel itself out. Or make it so every post is automatically self-upvoted. Just make it an all or nothing proposition.

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flexcougar (45) · 7 years ago (edited)

I thought there was a button somewhere you could "auto upvote" your own comments already? Or was it auto-upvote your own posts?

improv (67) · 7 years ago

Just your posts. It's assumed that you want to vote for your own posts, and I don't think people really frown on that, but they do frown on upvoting your own comments, or, at least, it's controversial.

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

I think I have an idea:
THE STEEMIT UPVOTE CAPTCHA

a bot that verify the human upvote...like a "captcha" type of bot that at the moment of upvoting it will ask you to write down a funny looking word lol...

"self-upvoting" bots would die in agony

also it would make you think twice before upvoting .. thinking about the time you have to lose to "captch" it...

...so you must really like a content to go thru an upvote..

am I missing something here? what do you think...

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ailema (37) · 7 years ago

at least lower it to like 10% not 100

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ailema (37) · 7 years ago

but even that might not be enough
i dunno ill have to brainstorm as many other probably have

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

if take away the upvote power they are like soldiers without a gun...

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yes, and those people would be forced to post more, and perhaps would abuse that, but at least that is way more visible.

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

exactly, I mean how many posts you make per day?? 5-10 ...then how many of this 10 is worth your upvote?...they will get tired eventually

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saywha (63) · 7 years ago

Consiquently. Every time you upvote yourself you loose 10 yunkcoins. This post is yunk approved. Share the yunk! Spread it around. Welcome to the yunkommunity

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Maybe you can create your own Yunk token, which is given to those who don't upvote their own content?

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saywha (63) · 7 years ago

lol we have definitely had talks about making yunkcoin for fun, we will see what comes :)

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thecastle (68) · 7 years ago

Would it be possible to automatically integrate Yunk tokens into steemit?

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saywha (63) · 7 years ago

That is a great question that I do not know the answer to :)

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

Otacon?

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thecastle (68) · 7 years ago

Snake is that you?

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

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ogochukwu (68) · 7 years ago

Hello @stellabelle

Those are strong tags, but they are neccesary

As someone who runs a contest for new Steemians , I have recieved some complaints about how unfair the system is.

HF 19 (nicknamed Equality),may have brought increased voting power, but it is also brought about a sharp increase of self reward and greed.

I don't believe in Equality in this aspect, Equity is what we should strive towards, I have seen some blogs that the owners have not been active but they still earn more than those who post articles by just upvoting their comments.

This is very unhealthy for Steemit, and I believe that this is what has led to the increasing number of shit posts because people feel like cracking their head for quality posts will bring them no tangible returns.

I have seen where people upvote their comments without even upvoting the post.

stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Good insights. No one has the answer, but many think that removing the rewards on comments is a first and necessary step.

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rycharde (63) · 7 years ago

OK, I agree with this: "...that removing the rewards on comments is a first and necessary step."
Sock-puppet creation is too easy for this to be a viable total solution, but it sends a message to the copy-cats.

Indeed, if the only logical reason to self-upvote a comment is for promotion, then it logically should cost a bit to do so. This may not be visible in dollars bit can be adjusted in the Vests value.

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personz (66) · 7 years ago

Good point but you know that many people feel they have already purchased this right by buying STEEM and powering it up.

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surfyogi (65) · 7 years ago

So, I can upvote my posts, of 3 paragraphs, and that's all just great?
This is so short sighted...

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creaturemystery (40) · 7 years ago

Paying yourself first on a post is one thing, comments is just asinine. Steem, like most things, has herd mentality at its core. Self Comment Voting might actually just be a short term issue as the ecosystem can correct it with enough foresight.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Paying yourself first on a post is one thing, comments is just asinine.
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creaturemystery (40) · 7 years ago

I guess you COULD say it 5 times fast lol

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surfyogi (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

Yes, but what do you really think?

What are your hidden motivations, agenda, and actual considerations, besides your kneejerk reactions to other's behavior?

Why do i feel like I'm back in High School, and cliques rule the day?

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inquiringtimes (64) · 7 years ago

working within a general consensus is a reasonable way to get along with folk. As long as that general consensus does not violate your morals. even if out side our preferences.

I can say I unabashedly upvote my own comments sometimes. Said vote is worth next to nothing. For me it's increased visibility. however, by the time one of my comment upvotes could be worth a few sbd, everything I do will be plenty visible. No need to self upvote. I have no money in upvotes, so if money was taken away, no skin off my back. it is nice to get a $$$ upvote now and again, but.. I won't cry if that disappears.

I think it's helpful to be able to change the visibility of my comment more so than earning a profit from it.

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journeyoflife (67) · 7 years ago

I just laughed pretty hard in the middle of public and now everyone thinks I'm crazy... @stellabelle

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

i am glad!

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bryner (53) · 7 years ago

Welcome to the club.

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

those motheryunkers lol

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enjar (69) · 7 years ago

It’s starting to turn into a real issue. I just see spammers everywhere upvoting themselves and getting a network to upvote them as well. Then people see those comments and upvote them because hey others are upvoting…. Thank you for sharing these resources. I just wish there were more tools to directly deal with some of these people. I’ve even tried talking a new Steemain about his actions and it didn’t end well. He ended up swearing at me in another langue from the best I can tell using google translate lol. Some people just don’t care, and want to get their greedy hands on whatever they can while they can.

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

upvote captcha coming to a greedy steemian near you ... lol

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enjar (69) · 7 years ago

I hope not, I fail those more times than the bots do. I’ll never get to upvote again! I bet I would get auto banned after my 10th fail trying type in the first captcha.

Now if those are just applied to "greedy' and we define that as someone spamming every 15 secs then I would be all for it!

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kingyus (59) · 7 years ago

captcha became user friendly but if that is what you fear then we can reverse the mechanism meaning instead of trying to type what is unreadable, we write it down like a pass that will be used everytime we upvote ... a 1 time "reverse" captcha will be used to register ur upvote pass...
how you define greedy lol... u can only prevent abuse by ...

reverse captcha - reversing abuse
reverse "catcha" - catcha ur greedy bottom
lol
talk to me baby.. :p

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pandapoef (49) · 7 years ago (edited)

I hope they will change the self-upvote system, I'm quite new here but it bugged me out from the beginning. If people prefer to upvote and reward themselves instead of rewarding others, the very essence of this platform is gone. However i'm not going to defend these self upvoters but I litterly came here after watching and reading about Steemit and the term "You can vote for yourself." came up quite alot which I did not fully understand at the beginning.. But now I do! and I mean c'mon everyone wants to make money to survive.. right? I don't blame people if they drive a car simply because that car is designed to drive.. The developer's should re-consider to alter or change this function like mentioned above in your article. People already are giving idea's and solutions.. And I'm sure many people here with the right knowledge would want to help change this problem. So I hope changes will be made. And that would stimulate people to stay if they actually got rewarded for a nice comment instead of ignored by the author and selfvotes his own "hmm okay thanks" reply. But I believe in the other other 80% that are on Steemit with good intentions towards other such as creative artists or coders or who ever you might run up to right here on Steemit. If we want to be noticed we gotta work together and help each other instead of only ourselfves. And your last tag is wtf but hilarious. 😃

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chinese-gandalf (51) · 7 years ago

I'm 109% supporting no rewards for self vote comments! Stop those abusers!

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kid4life (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

SelfUPVOTE - DISABLED = Problem FIXED! Lots of people would earn less, for "crap material"... But @money plays!

Am Upvoted and resteemed ! Hope more people will see it !

giphy (63).gif

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5 votes

znaffe (47) · 7 years ago

Won't solve it. Just uovote yourself with another account, easy to transfer SP..

kid4life (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

Super-mega Downvote Bots that recognizes the same user by ip or something I dunno, and downvotes the self-upvoters ?

Is it a possibility?

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znaffe (47) · 7 years ago

Might be, but then again someone could just use VPN. Banning certain behavior is just like government regulations. You always need to regulate the regulations because there's always some unexpected problems caused. We don't won't to start on that slippery slope

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kvmin (48) · 7 years ago

thank you for sharing this

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kid4life (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

NO PROB!

:)
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holoz0r (71) · 7 years ago

I'm so pleased to see support of the yunk movement in your posts. Yunk on! :)

I've recently done some slight research into the use of 'upvote' bots such as randowhale and booster, and I am curious to see if at some point I can put some data together on how many of these votes are used for self upvoting instead of rewarding other people's posts as a percentage of their use. Would be easy enough to do the analysis; I just need to get the data.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yes, interesting data is welcome. Yunk on! I am totally yunkified. I cannot sleep.

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https://steemit.com/steemit/@holoz0r/report-randowhale-self-upvotes-some-disturbing-findings

holoz0r (71) · 7 years ago

I decided to do that data analysis, in the name of Yunk.

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davidalexander (46) · 7 years ago

Thank you for the insight and detailed explanation. After reading I agree, the monetary aspect of upvoting your own comments should be removed 100%. One simple tweak like that would have a massive effect on cleaning up this mess! :)

Keep up the good work Stella.

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thatsweeneyguy (61) · 7 years ago

YES! This is a big reason why I started writing my 'Learning ethics from an as$#%le' post series! There isn't one 'right' way to use steemit, but there is certainly a 'wrong' way that will destroy everything that has been built here...

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago (edited)

yes, well, the self vote abuse will only lead to one thing: NEW RULES! It will not last, as it is destructive.

tarekadam (67) · 7 years ago

I agree, up-voting own comments should be removed. I used to up vote my own comments (20% per day) shortly after HF19 but stopped with it completely since few weeks. At this time I don't see a reason why this should continue given the current abuse, other than a few people the greater community isn't benefiting from this so I hope the ability to self up-vote comments will be removed with next hardfork.

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therneau (58) · 7 years ago (edited)

Hmmm, I didn't know the voting on your own comments has that 50% rewards factor that comes into play. I will unvote my comments. Thanks for the info :) EDIT: All done :)

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siragrays (53) · 7 years ago

Hey! @stellabelle, I am so thankful some one has seen What I have, THE PROBLEM WITH bots, Let me tell you I am not against technology or the bots, but how it's been used in this circle of never ending supporting bad spammers. I was thinking to myself many ways of improving steemit to make it more equal to each individual since it still not giving it, the reason for this is that if people who are the example of steemit are being "bad" then smaller steemeans will copy in some way. And bad is a sad word I wont say bad, but the need of getting their pockets full has gone to hard and went out of control. I have seen many steemeans change their minds because some didnt see that in fact this might affect steemit, AND WE ALL WANT STEEMIT big and healthy.

Let me tell you that I am really a baby in steemit, and the first time I came, I was blinded too, I was sad, because I didnt understand the how's and the why's. And I saw a big amount of people doing good and upvoting themselves, why can't I do it too? I though But later I understood that THIS MIGHT just become in a mediocre content circle. When YUNK found me I fell for it, I hope Steemit does too, since YUNK is Steemit. Together we create YUNK.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Yes, yunk will save us, and Steemit too. You are both Yunk master and pupil. So am I. We will prevail. I have plans.

Big Plans For Yunk

gif by @atopy

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siragrays (53) · 7 years ago

awww that gif is beautiful!! :D she is making awesome things.

I would like to see how YUNK grows. :D We should all discord one day.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

let's do group videos and make Yunk go viral. big time.

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progressivechef (76) · 7 years ago

It is really sad to see this practice @stellabelle and on the other hands some great content posts are dying without even being noticed! It would be great if these self voters start reading some posts and help grow the community!
Thanks for raising this up!
@progressivechef

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an0nkn0wledge (66) · 7 years ago

This needs to be addressed or Steemit will die a very good note-worthy post exploits, like these require attention. That's a get rich scheme for programmers. But programmers can also help other users, all and all bots are probably making users rich on this platform siphoning it dry from $$ and value.

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krishatnet (56) · 7 years ago

You made my day with the most funny and informative post. I upvote my own comments only few times to get noticed but not all times. If the comment is informative we will definitely get good rewards and I remember some times comments makes better earnings than my blogs but it should be with in the topic of the blog.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

yes. Thank you. Yunk on.

bania (63) · 7 years ago

Okay, at first i was kinda scared with your post title, but later i felt good reading this and "thumbs up" your excellency. If steemit must grow and last long then users must avoid greed and selfishness.

We don't have to paint the wrong image of this community for new users coming in, and this type of post helps everyone to think the right way to behave if steemit will last long

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redrica (67) · 7 years ago

This article was hilarious!

I'm still really new here, so I'm a bit lost about the Yunk thing, but look into it a bit more.

Also if you have a sec, I recently heard about the Minnow Support Project, and it seems to be similar to what you're suggesting Yunk is? Is that right?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

No, yunk is a state of mind that you will slowly figure out. Minnow support project helps minnows.

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redrica (67) · 7 years ago

Thank you, that helps :)

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gduran (69) · 7 years ago

I agree with you on the no money for up voting your own comments, what I really don't understand is why you think this self up voting has any impact on Steem's value, it sure has an impact on the reward pool but why on the currency itself? Steem's price has been crazily fluctuating since the Bitcoin fork was announced I don't think the self up vote has anything to do with it, if that were the case why did it go down to 8 cents before HF19? I think I would rather blame big investors who are playing with the supply and demand, I understand Bitcoin's price has a big say in it, as you can't convert Steem to fiat before changing it to Bitcoin. Maybe Poloniex' huge hoard has something to do with it.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Because if word spreads that this place is a scam, no one will join. When no one joins, no one buys Steem. Then Steem's price tanks. The reason, one of them that the price was so low was because WE HAD MASSIVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS, in here. It was human behavior, abuse and whale wars, power struggles that almost ruined this place.

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alex-icey (57) · 7 years ago

Followed you...I am @cali-girl's son btw

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

oh hello! Nice to meet you! Glad you're on Steemit!

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drewley (64) · 7 years ago (edited)

Great ideas! I have no problem with people upvoting their own posts and getting a reward. But I agree, changing the rule on comments to no reward would diminish this type of abuse

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haushinka (46) · 7 years ago

AMEN AMEN AMEN. I'm so sick of seeing people comment on my posts with some nonsense that has nothing to do with what I wrote about. Then they beg for an upvote, a follow and a resteem. Then they upvote their own comment and don't even upvote my post! I've been so frustrated with this lately and I've wanted to rant about it and this seems like the perfect place. Thanks for taking the time to put into words what I couldn't figure out how to write so eloquently.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Join our #yunk movement and feel the authenticity.
Fakery is always easy to detect.
Yunk, in all its glory will save us from spam and pure shitfoolery.

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nikethemutt (53) · 7 years ago

This discussion is tiring, just take self-upvoting away all together.

The concept does not make sense. Of course I think my posts are wonderful and thought provoking. I'm a genius in my own mind!

I get so tired of the self-pontificating posters railing against self up-voters. If it's there, I'm going to do it, plain and simple human nature. So take it away once and for all.

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nikethemutt (53) · 7 years ago (edited)

BTW, I just up-voted myself because I think everything I think and say is brilliant......and to prove my point that making it available to the posters is stupid. Also, I really want someone to reply and preach to me about how I'm destroying Steemit.

Just take the option away!

p.s. I did up-vote the main article as well. I'm not a total douche!

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

ha ha! Good point!

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

It is interesting to see, though, how most humans behave, when given the opportunity to self upvote.
I made far more money on the post i didn't upvote than the ones I did.

#yunk?

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nikethemutt (53) · 7 years ago

Thanks @stellabelle. I'm kinda new here and I'm still learning the ropes. It's been a blast so far!

I shall endeavor to #yunk in all my future posts!

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kurtbeil (64) · 7 years ago

LOVE IT! Let's dooooo this!

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randowhale (67) · 7 years ago

This post received a 3.6% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @kurtbeil! For more information, click here!

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jjb777 (56) · 7 years ago

You can upvote urself? That doesnt make sense to me. And i think they also should do something against these bots that do random crap comments.
Time to call for a revolution! Just my words. J

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cheeto.blue (61) · 7 years ago

Wow, I didn't know this was getting abused so much...
I totally agree with you - there should be no monetary gain for voting for your own comments, but maybe only for better visibility.
Any idea why this was changed?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

we demanded it, and we worked for many months getting it changed. The reason was because the whales controlled all the rewards, and that was a bad situation! Minnows had it really bad when the algo was weighted exponentially.

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cheeto.blue (61) · 7 years ago

So it helped with getting the rewards spread a bit more, but has now (potentially) caused some other challenges. I'm assuming there were still be multiple changes to get Steemit just right...
I certainly hope that Steemit does get "fixed" properly in the long run to make it sustainable :)

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

The entire thing is bootstrapped. Problems (usually human social ones) emerge, then a fix is applied to the algorithm. This is how it how been built.

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bodyinbeta (51) · 7 years ago

I agree. Something needs to be done with upvoted comments. Either putting a limit on how often you can do it and get rewarded in a 24 hour period. Likewise with upvoting your own content because they can just circumvent this by posting 10 times a day and upvoting their content. Setting a limit on that as well.

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o1o1o1o (55) · 7 years ago

I don't get being able to upvote your own posts. We already get rewards for creation. Let the content speak for itself. If you want to promote it them spend some of your own Steem to do that.

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bodyinbeta (51) · 7 years ago

Yeah, I don't think I would have a problem if we did away with getting rewarded to upvote your own posts or comments. Problem is there are always ways around it. Someone can create 2 accounts and use one to upvote the other. In the end, we just need to police ourselves and try to do what we feel is the best for the long term growth of Steemit rather than trying to make a quick buck.

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artakan (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

This solution is not good: people will create two or more accounts and vote for each other ... If the solution before HF19 was working, we HAVE to go back to it ! People will always try to maximize their profit, we have to change the system so they can't do it .... And as I can, I will self-upvote my comment... Steemit is broken at the moment ... What is put place to fix this ?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

by doing so, you just missed out on a $9 payout, and a reputation increase.
So, you got $.28 instead of $9, way to go!

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artakan (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

You do not get my point, too bad ... A technical solution has to be enforced, not the goodwill of the people .... I do not have the solution, but what you propose is way too simplistic. We have to find the correct technical answer for people having multiple accounts. These people are invisible for now .... What do you propose about that ? That's why I was saying that if the pre HF19 solution worked, we HAVE to go back to it.

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whatsup (75) · 7 years ago

I upvoted you for having an opinion and stating it. I appreciate the fact you are reading and interacting with the site. I don't agree with exactly what you are saying, but this is for reading and participating in the conversation. I take no issue with you self-voting.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago (edited)

Since day 1, Steemit is always trying to solve the problem of abuse. I did get your point, and I had a point to make too. As you can see, I've given out close to $60 to people who provided good comments on this post. (who have not self--voted).
There is a group now working on a technical solution. However, there's an element to be social on a social network. Human behavior can be changed, if people see that you can actually make WAY MORE MONEY AND REPUTATION by doing good works that benefits many. Tech solutions have to work side by side with human behavioral solutions. Nothing is in a vacuum.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

I did get your point. I am being a little irrational, because I read too many posts, detailing what is going on.....I appreciate you taking the time to comment and engage on this topic, and I have to agree that it's broken at the moment, but it will get fixed....if we arrive at a decent solution.

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whatsup (75) · 7 years ago

Nicely done. We may not agree on this topic, but you are good for engagement, reading and supporting many users on SteemIt. I like that you hit the hot topics and then truly engage with people of all levels.

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artakan (55) · 7 years ago

I do not think the witch hunt solution will solve the problem https://steemit.com/steemit/@financialcritic/why-are-some-steemians-witch-hunting-self-upvoters

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whatsup (75) · 7 years ago

I am not going to reward you posting a link on someone else's blog, but I did enjoy the article you linked here.

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calamus056 (58) · 7 years ago

@stellabelle

NO ONE WILL WANT TO JOIN STEEMIT AS BY THIS TIME IT WILL BE VERY WELL KNOWN AS A SCAM, AN UPVOTE RING.

This is exactly what i felt. I got really angry when i found out about this problem too. For some reason the people working on hard forks don't fully realize the severity of it.

Thanks for supporting this cause.

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denmarkguy (76) · 7 years ago

I appreciate you making the issue visible @calamus056. I have been "down this road" on SO many platforms like this... and somehow every single one seemed to believe they are somehow "exempt" from the destructiveness of human greed.

whatsup (75) · 7 years ago

Have any of your reports or post showed the percentage of the daily rewards that are going into "self-voting"?

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calamus056 (58) · 7 years ago (edited)

Yes, in the period of June 20th - July 18th the measurable self-voting was approx. 9% of the reward pool. For comments the measurable self-voting was a minimum of about 35% of the comment rewards (this is likely largely because abusers can now self-vote in only 11 comments a day instead of 44 when the maximum vote went to 2% from 0.5%).

Obviously we can't know the self-voting that is being done between multiple accounts, owned by the same user. On top of that, stellabelle has the same worry that the number will only increase. Imagine when World of Warcraft gold farms discover SteemIt, or worse, that's not going to be pretty.

You can look at my latest post which includes links to all 3 related articles.

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whatsup (75) · 7 years ago (edited)

Yes, SteemIt will be a boring place if we all sit around and vote for ourselves.
It is hard not to feel like the only people reading anything around here are hungry minnows looking for votes and follows.
I have a different view on the situation though, I have more respect for those who are interacting each day with the site making comments (even if they vote for them) Then those who set their voting bots through the main voting groups and walk away from SteemIt, just letting their investment grow via curation rewards. (I am not saying it is wrong, I am saying, it is another factor in making SteemIt feel scammy and boring)

It makes no sense to me to focus on self-voting as if you make any progress at all, people will just make more accounts to vote for themselves.

I think we need to focus on voting for comments that show POR. (proof of reading) and try to find ways to reward those who are interacting with the site)

It is just another opinion, everyone has one. :)

Yes, I will be giving my comment a small self-upvote for visibility. I deserve it, I am here, reading interacting and engaging with the end-users. :)

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personz (66) · 7 years ago

I think we need to focus on voting for comments that show POR. (proof of reading) and try to find ways to reward those who are interacting with the site)

Did you see @krnel 's post on this? Interesting but I have no idea how it could actually be implemented. Any ideas?

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whatsup (75) · 7 years ago

He had one that I saw, I will check it out.

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denmarkguy (76) · 7 years ago

And I will lift it a little bit more with an upvote because you're here and interacting with the content, and this happens to be a discussion I am interested in... because this stuff matters a LOT to the well-being and future of Steemit.

Gee... imagine that... the site actually working as it was intended to!

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whatsup (75) · 7 years ago

shout out to you as well, we may not always agree, but I know you are out there reading, engaging and writing.

I just want us to focus on that and not the petty issues. Reward those who are here and engaged and using the site!

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steemboys (57) · 7 years ago

By all admiration to call on the morality of steemians this has to be algorythm based. I mean its good to be a rolemodel, it might influence some minnows, but i dont believe this is preventing a botuser to "change" his behaviour for the sake of good. As long as the system can be exploited it will be exploited and this needs to stop or other people who can't stand iniquity (like me) will either power down or take their share and ignore the community.

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personz (66) · 7 years ago

Thanks for supporting this idea and promoting it 😆 😆 😆 I think it is a real contender and I'm excited to see it debated more.

I see your main point here is that you are concerned that self voting, especially on comments, is likely to increase over time. This is certainly something that concerns me too. We will be looking at the data and seeing if there is any evidence for this yet, and will be watching as we go on.

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denmarkguy (76) · 7 years ago

Well, thanks for being part of the potential solution @personz. This is something we need to look at and deal with sooner, rather than later...

One of the more prominent and somewhat recent failures of a "social site that pays" was a little venue called Bubblews which took a dive about three years ago, due to this very same type of issue. That site's fate is besides the point here... it's the numbers that are relevant.

The project founders did a bit of a publicity tour and got pocked up by CNN, CNBC and others... and approximately 1.5 million new users were added-- in a matter of a couple of months-- to an existing base only slightly larger that Steemit is right now. 99% of those had ZERO interest in "creating content;" they were purely there to get "money for nothing," and they employed the exact same pattern of vote-begging, follow-begging, scripts, copy-paste and anything else you can think of.

Of course, the next step is that legitimate users start to leave in disgust... and the balance of "power/content" shifts... after which everything heads down the tubes.

But anyway, back to the "numbers." That was 1.5 million people. Right now we're just dealing with some thousands.

And yes, I know this because I was briefly a volunteer "community moderator" but it was too little, too late... we were SO outnumbered.

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personz (66) · 7 years ago

I vaguely remember you talking about that experience before.

That might be the topic of a really interesting article if it were done in a deep way, i.e. looking for any similarities of dynamics (and being honest about the differences). So the question is, why did it fail? We are all in a way here to make some money, i.e. get rewarded, and there's nothing wrong with that. But where does it go wrong? And might the same thing happen to Steemit?

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denmarkguy (76) · 7 years ago

@personz, I think I may actually have most of that article written and sitting in my drafts folder on HubPages... and it would have been written shortly after the site crashed and burned, so the info was fresh... I'll see if I can dig it up and create something that's moderately readable... maybe with an "incendiary" title to do with history repeating itself...

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personz (66) · 7 years ago

I await in anticipation 😊 Followed, looking forward to hopefully seeing it

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

great! I love how diplomatic you are. I am just mad right now that so much of this bs is going on......especially the massive amounts. It's gross.

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personz (66) · 7 years ago

Thank you 🙂

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bmj (63) · 7 years ago

One of the ways of combatting self-upvoting is to make it less rewarding than curation. You should be able to upvote your own post if you REALLY believe it is worth it, but the cost of the self upvote should be higher than a regular vote, and should increase with every self vote made in a 24 hour period. Basically it drains your voting power quicker and is capped at a lower percentage the more you vote. Eventually you have no power left to vote and have to wait to recharge.

If you're interested, have a look at my proposal here. It's nearly 2 weeks old now and so outside the payout window, but would like to see something like this implemented. Let me know what you think. It's quite a long read. It also deals with delegated SP and voting bots.

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denmarkguy (76) · 7 years ago

That was a really good proposal @bmj... I like the idea that people can have ONE shot at upvoting themselves at full power... and after that it's pretty much a losing proposition.

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bmj (63) · 7 years ago

Exactly that @denmarkguy. It doesn't take it away, it just makes it less effective the more you use it on yourself.

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beckerly (44) · 7 years ago

"Then Dan Larimer rolls over in his grave, because when he first created Steem, he had feared this self-voting behaviour, and had created the algorithm to deal with it effectively."

I don't think Dan would even care at all though; I think it's pretty clear at this point that Steemit is the experiment to EOS' mass adoption, whether this was intentional or not. That means it's up to us to fix most of whatever needs addressing over here.

I've detailed my stance of being non-plussed regarding self-voting elsewhere, and think that most of the solutions proposed to curtail it fail to effectively target the supporting mechanisms that actually make it cannibalistic for the reward pool (like multiple accounts voting each other up via bots, etc.). So while I would support this idea of zero-dollar-value self-voting to counter it, without hesitation; unfortunately, I don't think it would stop the most egregious of this type of behaviour.

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michaellamden68 (69) · 7 years ago

CAN YOU SEEEE WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING?!?!?

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danyelk (69) · 7 years ago

Damn that is a very funny post thanks for sharing! Btw cocaine does not feel so good like shrooms, LSD, DMT or MDMA have a nice day :)

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

everyone is different! I've known coke heads, and they are probably the type to upvote all their own comments.

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ailema (37) · 7 years ago

i think he was referring to the coke high not having flashing colors effect is all.... made me laugh out lol
btw @stellabelle i do agree and am glad to read all this thanks

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danyelk (69) · 7 years ago

I have done coke 3 times in my life and did not like it and this is 16 years ago I liked more the psychedelic stuff but after doing ayahuasca in Peru and iboga in Costa Rica I stopped with all that. Have a nice day :)

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danyelk (69) · 7 years ago

Sorry but I do no drugs more for a long time don't drink and stopped smoking 1 year ago. The upvote on my comment was for me to see how much I get with my 89% voting power. Have a nice day!

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chitty (69) · 7 years ago

haha the cocaine guy is hilarious!

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sift666 (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

At one level I agree with you, that if self upvoting didn't pay any rewards it might help, but only for a few minutes until everyone switched over to second fake accounts for voting.

Now I'm just raising this next point to emphasise that there is also another side to this - most of us are very small and upvoting our own comments has bugger all effect on the reward pool, but it does get our comments seen when otherwise they mostly wouldn't be.

I can only speak for myself, but I upvote ALL my own comments at 10% and have done for my past 1600 comments. I would still do this if there was no reward, because it's all about placement.

My highest payout this year was for a comment rather than a post, and yes I had self upvoted it to the top of the stack before anyone else voted for it!

While some people complain about hardfork 19, I know my own post payouts have gone up 10 fold on average since that change, so I like it a lot.

We have whales upvoting each other to the tune of millions and nobody is saying boo because they will get their arses handed to them on a plate, but if minnows self upvote they are supposed to feel guilty about it?

I like my own comments so I upvote them. If I didn't like them I wouldn't post them.

There is some freaky shit for you :)

All the best, I'm not disagreeing with you here, just saying there is another side to this, and I know I'm not alone with this viewpoint.

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tayken (50) · 7 years ago

Another digital ego stroke for the insecure. I border on nialism every time I read things that reinforce what I already know about humanity.

I'll always be in support of those that look to abolish narcissism. Voting upward :)

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jamhuery (61) · 7 years ago

great idea and informative post, thanks for sharing this post, i think i have to resteem this post, maybe hf 20 we have to be a shark

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yoto (35) · 7 years ago

Hello I am a Robot.

howardroarklol (33) · 7 years ago

What an excellent solution! I love steemitopia, I don't want it to become a decentralized self congratulatory system!

coquiunlimited (58) · 7 years ago

This can easily be resolved by Steemit. Have the ability to self vote not possible. It's that simple. This will help ease a bit the greedy.

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bi5h0p (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

Taking away the monetary reward for upvoting your own post will simply cause more people to look for ways to auto-swap upvotes by using bots, joining guilds, and creating secondary accounts.

Next, there's going to have to be another hard-fork to get rid of bots, or change the rules for bots, or flag people out of SteemIt for belonging to certain vote-swapping guilds, and having multiple accounts. (OH, WAIT!!! DAN LARIMER HAS MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS ?!?! BUT...)

This is the exact same problem we have gotten into with the Tax Code in the USA. Now, there are so many rules, only a person who's trained for a lifetime in tax law can even begin to understand how it all works.

You like to use SteemIt for philanthropy, blogging, and the curation of good content. Maybe I like to use SteemIt to provide an interest-bearing savings account to help me take care of myself and my family. Somebody else may like to use SteemIt to promote their YouTube channel about growing weed. Another person likes to spread the "gospel" of their religion using an online presence. Is your purpose for using SteemIt more "virtuous" than mine is, or anybody elses? It's a matter of judgement and opinion. Should one group of people be trying to control how other people decide to spend or save their own money? Do you have the right to tell me what is valuable and what is not valuable, and then implement new rules on my savings account - because I use it to accumulate money to feed my children, instead of giving it to content creators?

Final Thought: Why not let SteemIt be a place of many varied uses and interests, rather than a place where one group of people tries to control how another group of people decides to use a diverse and varied social media platform/blockchain/financial instrument. SteemIt is not just a place for Content Creators - it is a place for Content Creators, Programmers, casual web-surfers, financial investments, and 3-eyed Ravens. Why place more limits upon it? Why so serious? Let's not try to make the external world conform to our individual set of values - let's value freedom, for each individual to choose. (Extreme cases of "abuse" can be dealt with by the Whales on a case-by-case basis, as they have been doing all along.)

@stellabelle Do you remember why people are leaving places like FaceBook and YouTube to search out alternative social-media platforms? Is it because they have such good "rules" for keeping everybody in line? Is it because their rules are so "fair" to everyone? Is it because they allow everyone their own, self-deterministic freedom to speak about & do what they want to??? Has Dan Larimer designed a poorly put-together blockchain here?!?! Are you better at advising the Steem developers what their policies "should be," as opposed to what they are? Did HF19 "fix" everything? Did it make it worse? Is HF20 going to do a better job at fixing all these "problems" than the previous 19 attempts? I don't know - but I do see some huge "blind spots" in your persepective on what SteemIt is, and what SteemIt "should be."

Good post. Upvoted and Resteemed.

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davyoneness (41) · 7 years ago

Makes sense to me. lol, but maybe I should start upvoting my own comments while I still can with these one cent votes I have.........Muuhaahaaahaaa........Now that will make CENTS! steem cents

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

not a great plan.

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ervin-lemark (71) · 7 years ago

I love the tags on your post. Especially the last one :)

Admit it that self-upvoting your comments is such an easy way to get some SBD. So tempting. You like your comments so why don't you upvote them and earn some at the same time...

OK, I agree that is counterproductive in the long run. Not everybody here wants to see the long run as is obvious from the list that you've posted.

BTW, you can add @steemcleaners to the list. Check out this conversation that I've recently had with it.

It flagged my post, commented on it and self-upvoted its comment. Sweet :)

#yunk on :)

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bitguider (25) · 7 years ago

This is serious problem. Immediate action needs to be taken. And really no self upvoting.

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george-topalov (58) · 7 years ago

I never minded people upvoting their posts and giving themselves a bit of a boost for the hard work they've put in a post but

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transisto (74) · 7 years ago

Given #masturbation I tought you'd enjoy this one :

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danielownsall (60) · 7 years ago

It kind of my makes me feel sick when whales are openly 100% upvoting all their posts. had someone do this recently when he said a one word response.

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ogoowinner (70) · 7 years ago (edited)

@stellabelle you have a large heart. I see people read a very nice post, all they do is give it a small % vote, then upvote their own comments. Their comments always has a higher payouts than the one on the original post.

I love the new trendy word #yunk. I hope people will not run steemit down.

Thanks for the nomination for community builders. I appreciate it.

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grizzman (53) · 7 years ago

I think this is a great idea. When I joined last month H19 was already in effect and I saw some of the bigger guys up voting their comments at 100% power. I always felt that was kind of tacky. Even now I may up vote my content but never my own comments, unless it was a truly good comment that i believed should be bumped a little higher up, but that is a very rare occasion.

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michael14876 (50) · 7 years ago (edited)

I think this is a wonderful idea! I'm following people who post 15-20 times daily, and upvote themselves, and maybe get an additional 5 votes per post, but are making around $100. I'm ok with upvoting yourself, but when the content is crap and nobody wants to read it and your making a ton of money, seems pointless for the overal growth of the steemit community.

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millionairemark (49) · 7 years ago (edited)

Love your article. They should clearly tell the newcomers not to upvote their comments. It seems so unprofessional. Removing monetary benefits from selfvotes, would be the right way to go.

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sallykwitt (44) · 7 years ago

Great ideas, I agree with no monetary reward for upvoting your own comments. Thanks @stellabelle

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omwith (59) · 7 years ago

Good post! I would 100% support this!

By the way, when is the next HF planed for Steemit?

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

i don't know

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jamjamfood (58) · 7 years ago

You have my vote. It is very annoying to see this.
I am only here for 6 weeks and realized this "process" already. How long is this already going? I am wondering that this was not stopped.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

as long as human behavior exists, there will be rules.

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cmoljoe (53) · 7 years ago

@stellabelle I'm just writing this comment so you can upvote me LOL But really, why Steemit don't disable upvoting your own comments?...Solution is so simple.
Also noticed one guy writing one bs sentence so he can upvote his own post. His name is Craig Grant. He did it many times because his self vote is worth 30+$. I made few posts about it with screenshots of that bs sentences, but deleted those posts because I'm not here for drama.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

hmmm...well that certainly is gross, that's all i will say.

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cmoljoe (53) · 7 years ago

@stellabelle I unfollowed @craig-grant few weeks ago. I'm glad to see people started to flag his posts. Posts like this
https://steemit.com/art/@craig-grant/fun-fact

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farmandadventure (56) · 7 years ago (edited)

I agree! Although, I felt the need to upvote one of my inane comments the other day (I gave the temperature outside Lol), as a spammer had left the one and only comment on a brand new post and I'll be danged if that is the first comment my readers see! So I paid .10 for that...would've been just as effective without taking from the reward pool.

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feri1 (64) · 7 years ago

Go Away Self - Upvoter's...

Upvoted And Resteem

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leotrap (72) · 7 years ago

Doing that is incredible and obviously stupid! but anyway I think that beyond people, the system should be prepared to avoid this kind of behaviour and I really dont understand how the Steemit infrastructure is so, so... rustic in a lot of ways. Steemit a lot of potential but carealess, that's the word! Careless and is obious that if no one put a stop this will become what we don't want, Just a thinking of a minnow ;)
Cool words...!

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

Actually it's the USERS FAULT! Dan had created an algorithm that made it impossible for Steem Power holders who had small amounts of SP to gain anything from self upvotes! He programmed the rules that way, but it was we, users, who campaigned to get this changed! It is showing how human behavior is not advanced enough....we need rules to prevent this type of abuse.

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leotrap (72) · 7 years ago

Totally agree and so good that someone as you said (in this case Dan - Sorry but I'm new in here- ) put hands in this. So cool to know that can be changed in some way. Is any place when I can be adviced and involved somehow into those changes?
Hope people could get really involved with Steemit by heart and the community sharing.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

follow @personz, this account is collecting data.

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leotrap (72) · 7 years ago

thanks @stellabelle

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freakygeak (40) · 7 years ago

if you see a comment under a great article and none of it's yours and you upvote that interesting maybe thought provoking comment do they get a few cent's still or no ? I'm still learning and have as of yet never upvoted my own content I don't see why I should. thanks for sharing will resteem

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builderofcastles (64) · 7 years ago

My fix is this:

We stop creating accounts with 10SP.
Instead we give them 10 virtual SP. So that their votes are 10SP weighted by their reputation score. So, if they have a reputation of 0 they have no voting weight. If they have -1 their vote isn't even allowed to the block chain. (this is already in place by minimum vote size)

Next every home page has to have a flag.
So anyone with more flags than followers loses reputation.
Or some other community balancing thing.

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paceta (47) · 7 years ago

so , in simple way steemit is scam?

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https://steemit.com/steemit/@rogerwilson/much-thanks-to-the-following-for-attacking-my-posts

rogerwilson (47) · 7 years ago (edited)

YOU FORGOT TO MENTION PEOPLE USING BOTS TO ATTACK PEOPLE THEY DISAGREE WITH, I WROTE ABOUT SOMEONE I CAUGHT AND NO ONE CARED, BUT BASICALLY I ARRIVED AT THE SAME CONCLUSION AS YOU - THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STEEMIT ECOSYSTEM, SOMETHING MOST OF US FELL IN LOVE WITH IN THE BEGINNING. NO ONE EVEN LOOKED AT MY POST.

I EVEN SPONSORED IT,
STILL NO ONE REALLY CARES ABOUT BOT ABUSE OR MULTIPLE USER ACCOUNTS ON STEEMIT.

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stellabelle (75) · 7 years ago

well, you probably won't get followers if you're trying to sell your account

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rogerwilson (47) · 7 years ago (edited)

Well whats the point when people use Bots and multiple accounts to attack you, I proved my case, if you saw that part, yet there is no one to do anything about it. So again, whats the point of having the account ? To pretend ? No there needs to be something done about people using multiple accounts and bots to sway the ecosystem in their favor. And as far as I can tell - it's rampant here in Steemit.

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thesimplelife (49) · 7 years ago

My apologies for jumping in here...but isn't the point of having an account to create quality content for the sake of producing a piece of work that you find pride in having accomplished--despite the monetary outcome? I guess that's been the point of my account so far...

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rogerwilson (47) · 7 years ago (edited)

Apology not needed. You have it right, but still no one wants to acknowledge the fact people are using multiple accounts as well as BOTS to destroy others posts.

I proved as much if you read more than the headlines of my posts, I won't paste the link again out of respect for everyone else whos doesn't give a damn, but it's there, 1 guy using multiple accounts and a bot or two to attack others.

Now my feelings about Steemit does NOT differ from yours, the only problem is no one wants to see my point.\

why isn't steemit tracking anything by ip, do they want everyone to have 10 accounts and bots to upvote their posts and down vote anyone they disagree with ?

Because this is already happening.

people caught doing these activities need to have their accounts deleted and blocked permanently or this ecosystem fails.

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arckrai (62) · 7 years ago

Wow so much of the top SBD holders are generated by themselves.
It would be pretty cool if upvoting yourself becomes disabled as I think other people should add value to your work. Not yourself. By self upvoting I think upvoting posts is fine since I think it will make people less likely to get steem power but upvoting their own comments should be disabled.

I hate those who just making meaningless comments like 'nice post', 'funny post'.
The worst thing that has ever happened to me is someone saying 'funny post' when I was opening up about one of my friends taking their lives.
I was so angry and I could feel a storm of rage brewing in me.

Hopefully this can have some impact and some great ideas are implemented on to steemit @stellabelle

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theblindsquirl (57) · 7 years ago

I'd be all for eliminating monetary rewards for any self votes, even posts.

The self voting post is redundant anyway, is there anyone who doesn't feel that they've done something worthy of a reward every time they hit post?

If you're going to do that, why not just give everyone a penny for every new post and limit the number of new posts to 3 per day?

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o0pepper0o (62) · 7 years ago

great idea!! the worst is users who upvote their comments which are just asking everyone to follow them and don't even upvote the post OR resteem >< omg just...no.... ><

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sandzat (53) · 7 years ago (edited)

Superbly explained @stellabelle! I'm in splits over the bots army. LOL. I think that once self-voting for monetary gain is stopped, the authors will take care to produce only quality content, because the value of a blog post will be measured by reader response, and not boosted by their own vote. Making a quick buck everyday with a meaningless post will come to a standstill. And Steemit content will become the good "filtered" variety. I'm also in support of this.
Haha.. and I like the writing "Your Yunk standing will become ghost-like."

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tibonova (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

That wouldn't solve the issue.
Who really wants to abuse this just makes another account, delegates most of his Steem Power and upvotes himself by that account.

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