I have some powerful friends, but they tend to try to remain hands off. This is why those that abuse the down vote can get away with it when they too are powerful. Those powerful enough to truly do something usually don't, and when they do we hear massive complaining that they got involved.
RE: I'm going to do a little investigation into the down voters who do so for purely dislike, and other reasons as well as their connections to other accounts and popular "services".
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I'm going to do a little investigation into the down voters who do so for purely dislike, and other reasons as well as their connections to other accounts and popular "services".
I can get that. For one, downvoting only gives a loss to everyone involved. Secondly, with some of the most influencial people of Steemit together, things can get very messy..
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His BernieSanders account was the 7th most powerful account on steemit at one point... he has since powered it down and moved that power around and into many other places. He had other accounts that were powerful when he was 7th and had all of those been combined he may have been overall more powerful than 7th.
Now it is scattered across many accounts and he is just getting bigger every time someone pays Randowhale for a vote.
He is truly powerful. I've only scratched the surface so far it truly is web like.
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Berniesanders is randowhale? Honestly I don't know anything about berniesanders, nor about the people behind randowhale. I am currently an user of randowhale, and not sure a service like this is really a bad thing. As long as it brings a profit to the user of the bot. Something as self-voting seems far more harmful to me. That being said. What the profit is being used for, if it is truly for things I cannot stand behind, then I might stop using it.
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Let's put it this way. Someone can provide a good service, but if the profits go on to fund a hostile actor then is it worth it?
Account transfers and other comments on the blockchain seem to support that yes Randowhale is a product of the same person known as Berniesanders. Though most of the money transfers actually go to nextgencrypto. Looking at the money moving around as when it get's web like. Keep in mind it could also be multiple people colluding among their accounts in fact that would further maximize profits so one person didn't have to pay as much attention to everything going on.
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Well that is what I ment with "what the profit is being used for." I still don't really know a lot about these people either. Not that me stopping to use a service like randowhale is gonna make much of a difference (except for my own morals). But if there really is some bad stuff going on there, more awareness through the platform and action from the bigger whales will be required to make a real difference.
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Randowhale itself is not bad. It's pretty cool. I even used it myself a couple of times.
I just realized that it was giving more power to someone who has no problems throwing a down vote against things he doesn't like to strip them of all earning potential. I kind picture some guys standing outside of a business with baseball bats and saying "you can't shop here".
Randowhale itself is pretty brilliant. It also looks like it is a pretty good Return on Investment (for Randowhale, not as much on the users... but that may change)
Yet I find myself wondering if by using it we are making it easier to hire even more proverbial thugs.
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Never ment to imply randowhale is a bad iniative, cause I love it myself. Think we got a bit off-topic :p Anyways, I am curious to what ur findings will be :)
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Me too. :)
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@randowhale @Berniesanders @nextgencrypto are all the same person. You can see when bernie needs to downvote someone he uses a lot of accounts.
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Yes, I know this. There are quite a few additional accounts as well. I am working on trying to put that together. @engagement, and @thecyclist are as welll in terms of larger accounts. There are others that are likely to be him, but no guarantee. I've been building a spreadsheet of transactions ignoring most of the smaller ones and will use that to build a post soon with some visual charts, flow charts, etc. It is a lot of data and it takes quite a few hours to dig through. I am doing it manually so I can notice things, toss some things, and decide what is interesting. He also has contributed funds to several projects over time, so while I dislike his down voting stuff he dislikes a great deal, he does do some good things as well. I don't actually consider @randowhale a bad thing. It's a good idea. He has also donated to @curie, @steemcleaners, and @steemservices a pretty sizeable chunk of steem. It is a fraction of the amount he has made and spread around, but he still did it, and that is a good and admirable thing.
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