I just bought a bunch of Steem (Warning?) + Quick note about self voting

whatamidoing (69) · 8 years ago

I don't see any problem upvoting yourself as long as you don't waste all their upvotes on themselves. Your articles are worth every penny they receive @canadian-coconut

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canadian-coconut (69) · 8 years ago

Thank-you so much @whatamidoing !
I appreciate it.

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whatsup (75) · 8 years ago

I am for self-voting as long as you are contributing to the platform and engaging in conversation. I feel we shouldn't "shame" self-voting, we might want to "shame" bad actors though.

You are a contributor, pay yourself!

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synesthesia (57) · 8 years ago

Not to fluff your ego or anything @ausbitbank but you're definitely one of the most generous and selfless people I know! That being said I believe that you definitely deserve your own self upvotes and you shouldn't hesitate in putting yourself first! I am so excited to see you posting again! Hugs ❤️

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aggroed (78) · 8 years ago

I'll fluff your ego bud. You're a very handsome boy!!!

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gniksivart (67) · 8 years ago

Handsome indeed much fluffing would be an honor!

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sandzat (53) · 8 years ago

Informative and enlightening article @ausbitbank! I also bought a tiny amount of Steem today with my earned SBDs and kept watching the graph every now and then... so I understand the feeling...
You've provided a self voting link in your post that I clicked on only to see how selfless yet generous you have been. So nice to meet you @ausbitbank! I'm going to vote for you as witness now. Good luck to you always! - @sandzat

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sandzat (53) · 8 years ago

Voted for you as witness! :) Look forward to seeing more of your posts. Cheers!

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calamus056 (58) · 8 years ago (edited)

@ausbitbank You made a small error, the 22K figure is total, including self-votes :)

I want to repeat here that you are an example for everyone!

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blueorgy (67) · 8 years ago (edited)

Always love the opportunity to BUY.
I wonder what the price of steem is right now anyway 🤔 @steemprice help me out?

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cron (66) · 8 years ago

Ha, that is useful service steemprice providing!

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darkerhorse (53) · 8 years ago

really useful service indeed.

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steemprice (46) · 8 years ago

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stonesteem (47) · 8 years ago

@ausbitbank I really don't have a problem with self voting. I think the real problem is GREED. I read that same article yesterday and there were indeed leeches. I will let our fellow Steemians read the post and see for themselve who those leches are. I don't have an issue with hose upvoting ther posts , as long as it's in balance with their helping the community. All Steemians will be looking. Thanks for your post and for NOT being a self serving greedy bastard.

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lordvader (69) · 8 years ago

This is a wise decision. The Empire approves.

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aggroed (78) · 8 years ago

I'm generally a pacifist, but can we talk about eradicating this species?

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7 votes

lordvader (69) · 8 years ago

I'be tried. Believe me. But those things are like cockroaches.

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aggroed (78) · 8 years ago

Can't you force choke all of them. Yoda says "do or do not, there is no try."

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lordvader (69) · 8 years ago

I just need to start with one.

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fauxfinish (28) · 8 years ago

misa dont understand follow me as i follow you into a saga situated light years from current time@fauxfinish upvoted ,,vote and follow @fauxfinish,, you know he might just end up being your father!

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fauxfinish (28) · 8 years ago

i sense the force is strong with this one,herrrrrrch

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hanshotfirst (76) · 8 years ago

You have given out so many rewards and encouraged a ton of community members. I don't think anyone could ever criticize your voting habits. You are helping the entire community every day. A rising tide lifts all boats... you are helping to raise that tide. Thank you.

clayboyn (70) · 8 years ago

I was actually really happy when I looked at that list. It turns out the majority of the people I support and the witnesses I support appear to align with my values. The point of steem shouldn't be how to get locked into a position of controlling the reward pool and riding that until it collapses, it should be about building the community until it's too big to fail, then the rewards will be so astronomical who will care. I posted about this last night... sigh. Keep up the good work fam.

sminchow (48) · 8 years ago

It seems like the self-voting discussions have been around the world and back again. A .67% self-voting rate? Dude, that is so ridiculously far to the other extreme. Yeah, I think you can back off of that at this point. My guess is that you are leading the pack in the lack of self-voting.

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yukimaru (65) · 8 years ago

Yeah.. price are dippin' low.. steem going low 0.00048000 wooh.. -_-

Wishing someday to feel those epic votes of yours. Some minnows have cool posts btw. ;)

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vinyprop (57) · 8 years ago

Hello @ausbitbank, thank you very much for what you have done for this community. Giving out 22K SBD and self voting for a tiny sum of $151 is as noble a gesture as it gets. I have a first hand experience of your generosity and supportive nature for the deserving and hardworking streemians... Do keep up the good work. ✌️✌️Peace..!!

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qasimwaqar (59) · 8 years ago

@austibank By voting others, you will get more respect from members. Impressed by your thoughts. upvoted and started to follow you. thanks for having some soft corner for steemit family members:-)

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orionschariot (57) · 8 years ago

I know what you're talking about with the FOMO, but I think we have a little farther to go. As far as self voting goes, you shouldn't feel a bit bad about self voting. Your posts bring great value and quite frankly you've either bought or earned your Steem Power, you can do with it what you see fit. Keep up the great work!

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ugetfunded (62) · 8 years ago

Finally, I came across someone genuine here at Steemit. By the way, I also bought steem today despite knowing the prices are going to dip more. Prices will go up again. Followed, upvoted and resteemed.

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ironshield (69) · 8 years ago

Self-voting should not be an issue. If becomes a problem, the ability to self-upvote will be discontinued. But let's be honest with ourselves: just about every Steemian upvotes his own post. It's expected since it's a feature when submitting a new article!

It's just good self-esteem. It's not selfish, just as long as you are active in the community upvoting other good content as well.

I'm upvoting this reply with no shame, so others can read it and do the same. (I'm a poet and don't even knowit) @ironshield

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ironshield (69) · 8 years ago

Woo hoo! A nickel! King of the Stemians!

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ironshield (69) · 8 years ago

I didn't upvote these replies since i'm not greedy. @ironshield

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candy49 (63) · 8 years ago

The trouble with saying, "if you disagree just flag", is that in the past this results in flagging wars, and there is no way a minnow can win a flagging war with a whale.

I think HF19 was a mistake and we should roll back to the previous non-linear award system. Otherwise we're just going to have everyone self-voting and doing noting else and the platform dies.

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elliotf1 (28) · 8 years ago

I'm new to steemit, should I transfer some BTC to STEEM and then to Steempower? Looks like the best way for more voting power? 🤔

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builderofcastles (65) · 8 years ago

Getting over 100 SP is where you start actually seeing consistent curration rewards.
Getting over 500 SP (1Mvests) is where you get a vote percentage slider, which is really helpful if you want to vote more than ten times a day.

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elliotf1 (28) · 8 years ago

Thanks for the response, I shall try to get to 100SP :)

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fauxfinish (28) · 8 years ago (edited)

great insight inf0 now i will know how this system sort of works ,so the key is to up vote for ourselves on every true knowledge expanding reply that would help out the natureof all true living things. how inspiring , what a grand suggestion,follow me as i up vote you and follow you after i post in aprox. 3 minutes lets play follow the leader,you may lead buti shall follow thee..@fauxfinish . chow

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oksanasemenova (48) · 8 years ago

Cool!!) @ausbitbank

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whatageek (74) · 8 years ago

.67% that is impressive man. I was happy being around 33% :p. yes upvote yourself! go for it.

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markwhittam (66) · 8 years ago

Nice post, you deserve a fat vote for that one :)
I'm waiting a bit longer to buy my steem. :)

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brianjuice (50) · 8 years ago

You're the man!

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progressivechef (76) · 8 years ago

You have been one of the rare one to actually think of others before yourself @ausbitbank! I have benefited quite a lot from you, and I am so grateful for it!
I will miss your votes for sure, but you should look for yourself too!
Thank you!
@progressivechef

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whatamidoing (69) · 8 years ago

Keep being good to yourself and being good to others, you do some much for this platform, most of which I don't understand much about. I was not surprised to see that ratio. Nice job on all those crazy payouts to others, I won't mind if you upvote yourself a bit though.

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senor (48) · 8 years ago

You got steem at a great price right now. I also agree with your points. It is quite a surprising difference between the upvotes and self-upvotes.

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pancheta13 (41) · 8 years ago

Thanks for sharing I was not aware how up-voting works !

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hilarski (76) · 8 years ago

I complained because I was not on the list. Fucker forgot me! You are awesome @Ausbitbank thank you for all you do for the community.

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fraterralph (49) · 8 years ago

I upvote my own posts as a matter of course. The only exception is if I think I've written a bunch of garbage...but that so rarely happens!

Now I've stopped upvoting my own comments. Once in a while, if I think a comment is extremely good, I may upvote it. But, for the most part, I leave that to others. :-)

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emble (50) · 8 years ago

If you are the judge of your writings you will rarely find garbage :)

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cedricdurand (37) · 8 years ago

You're doing amazing with all these purchases, I suspect steemit to explode in the coming year, as this community is really expanding like crazy.

I really appreciate that you, give 99% of your voting power to other steemians instead of yourself, people like are the people we need more of.

I hope you enjoy my 0.01$ upvote and the resteem, I would've give you more if I could :D

I will definitely vote for you as a witness, u deserve it 100%

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cryptonet (65) · 8 years ago

You deserve a due relax. You have done more than anything for people out there. You're the best man I have ever met on Steemit. You're hardworking, always working for this community and building great sources for this platform like your newly built platform : steemvids.com
You deserve all the relax in the World. Now, If I think about your decision of buying Steem then I would say, it is a Great One. Why ?
Because segwit has been locked in and this price dip is only a bear trap to make people sell their crypto shares. Steem is not gonna go much lower, may be a little dip. So, your patience has been dealt with a great decision.
I wish you all the success in the world.
A big thumbs up for your work sir @ausbitbank

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benlearns (48) · 8 years ago

even though steem isnt as low as it's been in the past month, it is still a good time to buy because it will probably go up to $10 in a year or 2

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admyrer (48) · 8 years ago

Interesting reading .

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apple64 (5) · 8 years ago

You can wait more and buy cheaper! Hope you can buy more cheaper this week

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arckrai (62) · 8 years ago

It may keep dropping this week but we will see.
Why buying in the internal market is it best to divide your SBD into smaller portions?
Great to see you are giving other people the opportunity to gain curation awards ;)

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dreamingirwin (58) · 8 years ago

It's really an interesting topic. There are so many views and reasonings for up voting yourself. I originally read that it had no benefit to the person posting. Yet it's becoming a topic. I read that it attracts people to your post. I'm still bit sure on it. Yet you're showing proof that its not a necessity. Cause if you gave away so much and rarely voted on yourself. Well that's part of the original philosophy. Hmm

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cdwyatt (51) · 8 years ago

It is dumping. It is just another opportunity to buy!

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abue (45) · 8 years ago

Follow me..
And..
please upvote my essay..
😊😊

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akkha (59) · 8 years ago (edited)

Self voting and paid votes are not good for this community !
Thank you so much for your effort !
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

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yaboyjon (47) · 8 years ago

Cool just purchased some yesterday, thanks for sharing

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cheeto.blue (61) · 8 years ago

Congrats on all the new SP 😁😁
Glad to see you really want the system to work properly. We just happy you're willing to keep some votes for us. Thanks a mil man!!

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steevc (73) · 8 years ago

I'm torn over self voting. With my SP it won't make a huge difference to the pool, but I do want to give more to other people. I'll not do it for now anyway

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moderninvestor (51) · 8 years ago

The FOMO is strong right now, people are buying things up like never before

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iliketoast (0) · 8 years ago

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playfulfoodie (68) · 8 years ago

As long as you share some voting love around to others aswell, all is good :D

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zeartul (69) · 8 years ago

If you have a worthy post, I say give your self a pat on the back and a vote. Once in a while its perfectly okay the thing about decentralized platforms there is no such thing as abuse... but we all have different views on the matter. You are a respected Member of this platform or at least I respect you,and you deserve to toot your own horn once in a while.

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fitzgibbon (61) · 8 years ago

Fomo is usually not a great reason for investments, but hey, if you buy Steem I can only applaud. Even without fear of missing out you're making a sound buy decision.

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superkrish (51) · 8 years ago

nice post upvoted and followed...please follow back @superkrish

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gniksivart (67) · 8 years ago

Honestly, if your allowedto self upvote self upvote! Take the same advantage thats given to everyone otherwise your putting yourself at a disadvantage.

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emble (50) · 8 years ago

There is no reason you should be different than other self-voters. This is currently how the system works, although it is a problem. Newbies can't find the way inside because lack of voting for them, but this should be addressed by the Steemit developer team and not by individuals.

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jaynie (75) · 8 years ago

hahaha well said! If your content is worth it - then why the hell not I say :) and yes... I totally agree... there is a lot worse floating around than some upvoting their quality posts.

Much like most local government systems. lol... so much corruption, but they sit and focus on giving people fines for a faulty headlight. lol

Great read!! ;)

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answerblack (41) · 8 years ago

There is a big difference between occasional self voting and spamming the system by posting nonsense and voting it up.

Anyone who is contributing to the community should feel free to self vote. Otherwise it wouldn't be part of the platform.

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hartiverse (40) · 8 years ago

Okay, this just deepens my confusion on the issue of self-voting. I thought I read that self-voting was a bit like taking money out of one pocket and putting it in the other. This, and the linked article, sounds like voting for one's own content is not a net-zero, but actually is a net-gain. (Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a controversy around it. Am I right, so far?) Is there an official SteemIt document that suggests best practices to follow regarding self-voting? Thanks.

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builderofcastles (65) · 8 years ago

I feel that voting for your good posts is important.
You put a lot of effort into crafting it, and getting it trending is important.
I too like to do so after at least 30 minutes so that others get the curration.

However, the voting for your own comments is really blatant, and obvious, and just looks really bad.

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msg768 (65) · 8 years ago

Those stats are pretty sick! And your numbers are...

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cryptokraze (72) · 8 years ago

And I avoid this fomo time.
Now I buy steem at 1.28SBD.

Will buy more when it will go down.

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dexpartacus (73) · 8 years ago

Usually i upvote my posts but not my comments.I'm a Steemit new entry, i begin to understand how It work, but I have a lot to learn!
Now thanks to you and this article i understand something more!
I appreciate your initiative!
Good luck with your investiments on steem!

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briantec01 (42) · 8 years ago

You always deserve a self-vote :D

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makrotheblack (47) · 8 years ago

I wish i had some spare money to buy.
The price might still drop, but long term it will only rise. Great attitude towards self voting.
I think you would make a great witness,you've already got my vote.

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darkerhorse (53) · 8 years ago

sometimes its neccessary to upvote yourself cos if you dont, who will? you have got to show yourself some upvote love sometimes, and i guess most of us support this brand new kind of you.

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thedonfreeman (60) · 8 years ago

I 100% upvoted you. Good work. Steem on!

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allfabeta (67) · 8 years ago

I always buy when something failed. It's great investment practice.
It would feed your pockets with cheaper than expected things, also it supports failed thing.

Buying #Steems now it's a support for the currency and #Steemit as a platform

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♣♣♣♣♣I will follow back those people who will follow me, I just thought that's a fair deal.♣♣♣♣♣

leninquiblat (47) · 8 years ago

I find it hard to buy SBD when most exchanger doesn't allow to buy using credit card or bank outside US.

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globocop (64) · 8 years ago

@ausbitbank Did you use a proprietary tool to determine the votes/ratios?

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calamus056 (58) · 8 years ago

No he used my list as stated in this article. But you unfollowed me because i said something about Jesus, not smart buddy, now you're missing out ;)

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globocop (64) · 8 years ago

Oh no - we had a civilized discussion on the subject. You even changed your content based on feedback. Laudable!

I wonder though where the assumption comes from I allegedly unfollowed because of a Jesus comment made, when I never followed @calamus056?

Smart? By what standard?

All the best.

-ch @globocop

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calamus056 (58) · 8 years ago

Blockchains don't lie. You followed me 4 weeks ago and unfollowed 3 weeks ago when you couldn't handle other viewpoints about religion ;)

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globocop (64) · 8 years ago (edited)

I stand corrected - l looked over my own follower data, which didn't show my follow/unfollow. However, your conjecture is false - just as the data you presenting may be misleading, regardless of hopefully good intentions. Take two examples in your report, two accounts I happen to follow - @ausbitbank and - @ramta.

Ausbitbank gives more to the community than any other user I have experienced. He has already spoken for himself.
Ramta, if you would please have the courtesy to investigate, is RamtaRewards, upvoting comments in the region of up to $50.00 for the promotion of Norway and Norwegian culture.

Just because it rains in one location doesn't mean it always rains there all the time. If data is missing - the conclusion drawn from it may be wrong.

Your conjecture that I unfollowed you for disagreeing on a particular subject is also false. If you'd take the time to check my interactions with some who do disagree, your judgmental claim is quickly dismissed.

Where is the proof that I cannot 'handle' other view points about religion? Show me, please.

The tone 🎶 makes the music, dear calamus.

As said before - all the best to you.
-ch @globocop

Revelation 12:10 ESV
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

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calamus056 (58) · 8 years ago

The evidence is on the blockchain. You commented on a posts about religion , even stating that you would unfollow, and a few minutes later you unfollowed.

But who cares, we're all friends, right? :)

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shayne (68) · 8 years ago

Holy crap did you call the BTC dump!! Amazing!

I'm going to have to keep a closer eye now that you're going to post more often :D
Really happy about that.

@shayne

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lexiconical (72) · 8 years ago

I just bought more too! $1.20 just felt right.

Right on with everything you said.

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znaffe (47) · 8 years ago

Sometimes it just feels right to high five yourself. From looking over the self voting post I'd say you're a beacon of hope, so I think you'll be well within what's considered 'fair'

Keep on doing what you're doing :)

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ryanreynolds (47) · 8 years ago (edited)

Upvoted, Followed and voted for witness.

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forexbrokr (67) · 8 years ago

Hey Aus,

Definitely use them on yourself. You've invested time and money in making Steemit what it is today, so get paid for it.

The problem isn't self voting, it's disproportionately self voting shit like comments, while giving nothing to the author of the post.

Just don't be a dick. It's really a pretty simple concent haha!

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mikenevitt (62) · 8 years ago

I don't have a problem with self voting I know some people question it but sometimes I feel if I don't vote for myself I wouldn't get any, cheers mike

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theblindsquirl (57) · 8 years ago

Kudos for even looking at the self/others vote ratio.

You can bet that the ones doing the real damage either don't look or when they do, their response is "damn, I shouldn't be voting for so many other people."

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sevinwilson (65) · 8 years ago

If anyone deserves to upvote themselves it is you. You have put so much time, effort, and money into Steemit!

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https://memegenerator.net/instance/54325320/the-respect-man-i-give-you-my-respect

boodles17 (49) · 8 years ago

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boodles17 (49) · 8 years ago (edited)

Respect @ausbitbank

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hdmed (66) · 8 years ago

Thank you very much,It is huge what you are doing @ausbitbank to help new steemit.

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pollux.one (68) · 8 years ago

Nothing wrong with selfvoting, when it's done for actual work. I see only an issue when it's done with delegated power or spamlike in comments or posts with no added value (linkdrop/plagiarised pics etc.).

Keep up the good work and don't feel selfish :-) You are NOT!

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nickskywalker (66) · 8 years ago

Fair play!!!

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https://steemit.com/steemit/@misterbitcoin/upvote-steem-world-helping-each-other-with-your-upvote

misterbitcoin (50) · 8 years ago

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rtdcs (63) · 8 years ago

Thanks for help the community my friend!

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mrwilson (30) · 8 years ago

I love all your content thanks for sharing !

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isaria (74) · 8 years ago

You are very generous, thanks for all that you do!

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johnycrypto (60) · 8 years ago

I invested in STEEM too after 2 days in the community!
check it here: https://steemit.com/steem/@johnycrypto/my-first-investment-in-steemit

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fraenk (62) · 8 years ago

0.67% self-voting ratio! You're obviously wearing a fedora!

It's great to see big players exhibiting such behavior. I don't think self voting per se is a problem.... but when I see that there's people with over 90% self-upvoting quotas, it does make me question the way value is created in this system!

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buzzbeergeek (73) · 8 years ago

Ahh... Relax, this is Internet, it's not real.

Thank you for bringing Discordianism to Steemit ;)

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blazing (70) · 8 years ago

That's a huge number ;)

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randomness (51) · 8 years ago

Like running a business, you should pay yourself when you feel like you put in the work that you deserve some compensation. If you're posting a meme that took two seconds and really doesn't contribute much, then that would obviously be of less value than if you spent a few hours to type up a well thought-out article that you have researched. I think self-upvoting makes a lot of sense but you really have to be a little critical about what you are contributing to the platform.

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velimir (78) · 8 years ago

If you dont upvote your own post, its like you dont believe in it ;) Of course greed is a biatch, but you dont have that problem, my friend. Keep up the awesome work for this community!

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lavater (53) · 8 years ago

I'm buying some too based on the chart, but the low volume worries me a bit.
maybe some decent volume will come on the next small leg down.

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sunmaker (41) · 8 years ago

Wow, do you have high expectations about this community returning your investment? I don't mean money-wise, just the things useful personally to you.

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ausbitbank (73) · 8 years ago

If steem doesn't die from abuse and mismanagement, then I'm confident its future value will be more then enough compensation :)

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broncnutz (77) · 8 years ago

Good post my man, I gave you 100% upvote power for this post. I upvote every comment on my page. It's the only way to spread these coins around and that will benefit all of us. keep up the good work.

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gohba.handcrafts (66) · 8 years ago

You should vote yourself more, youre the nicest guy on here and you should claim your fair share of the pool for the amount of work and time you put in. Sad to say, but you have to look after yourself first, as no one else is going to.

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