Warning to vote buyer/sellers! - Introducing GrumpyCompliance, mandatory in 14 days. (No more post-promotion allowed past 3.5 days)

Can you explain what the fuck this is about?

son-of-satire (69) · 7 years ago

There is no responsible way to sell votes on a platform where the selling of votes hurts the opportunity for content to get rewarded fairly. With whales selling their voting power, there is far less reason for any to vote on a great post simply because it is great.

What are curation rewards for again?

Oh yes. So until vote-buying is no longer a part of Steemit, neither should curation rewards be. These cunts are literally receiving rewards, which were put in place to encourage fair voting, for SELLING VOTING POWER.

If all of you just stopped fucking buying votes, within a week the whales would have two choices. Start voting fairly again to get their curation rewards, or watch as everyone else's voting power increases significantly because they haven't been voting.

That aside; even if what you proposed was in any way "responsible," why would you expect anyone to listen to you?

Your upvotes on this post, and in the comments, would suggest to me that you're as much of a greedy abuser of the system as the villains you are trying to paint for us.

But I suppose I am once again wasting my time here. Because you will still be worshiped by the idiots you are impoverishing, because you have a good upvote.. and who gives a fuck about dignity when you can get a decent upvote, right?

$311.62

adav (29) · 7 years ago

You are completely right. I think they should be banned, i´m new in Steemit, but I think than the selling of votes fuck this up totally, the staff should evaluate the posts and users, then ban anyone who tries to sell or buy votes...

$2.42

mattjack (51) · 7 years ago

so you want a small group of people to have the exclusive right to decide whats right and whats wrong, whats valuable and what is worthless?i think the control you are shouting for goes against the very idea of freedom!

$0.46

6 votes

janine-ariane (53) · 7 years ago

that is not what i read? I think it means that votes come from readers and not bots doing it for you. And that would be fantastic only people do not read, or read to little. And upvoting you an do like 10 times a day until your power is finished. I am guilty I did pay to get post upvoted, and I also abused the system for voting my self up, like many. We do not know how long steem will work so it is the case to make it worth in a short time therefor the resteem and upvotes are handy, wished it was different.

$0.00

mattjack (51) · 7 years ago

the staff should evaluate the posts and users, then ban anyone who tries to sell or buy votes...

thats what it says

as to the votes to to come from users i agree
i think voting bots should be banned but im new to steemit so there might be aspects i dont fully get yet.

$0.00

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

Self upvote is another one. That should not even be possible. It's vain on normal platforms. But here is't a Problem.

If you are dolphin and above you can just make money by up-voting your own posts.

It takes away from any other curators if your posting is not totally worthless to begin with. And it takes away from everybody as there is only that many steem dollar generated each day.

Self upvote should be banned.

$0.00

pingapete (46) · 7 years ago

What's wrong with making a little extra money?

$0.00

sinlg (65) · 7 years ago

What is worse than self-upvote? someone with multiple accounts voting for own lame posts everyday.

$0.00

https://steemit.com/trending/cryptocurrency

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

Yes, we all know one of those. You only have to look at:

$0.00

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

Quite the opposite: We want more people to decide whats valuable and what is worthless. And we want that decision to be done on merit of the article.

And if you want to promote: There is a fat promote button underneath your postings.

$0.00

ozmaga (50) · 7 years ago

$0.00

mistirix (33) · 7 years ago

I'm new to steemit as wel I tought you get votes when you write interesting things or share your story blog or whatever. (would not be bad tough actually having steem to get some savings going)

$0.00

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

That's the idea. However there seem to be a few flaws in the system. Namely: self upvotes and selling votes. Both distort and undermine the fundamentally merit based system.

$0.00

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

Indeed. When I first heard of vote selling I immediately became suspicious. There is something fishy, if not outright evil going on. And selling (and buying) votes is certainly at the heart of it.

$0.00

ozmaga (50) · 7 years ago

$0.00

reidlist (56) · 7 years ago

Selling votes seems pretty cut and dry damaging to the platform, but its literally the only way for the majority of users to make any sort of progress. The unfortunate truth is, it is entirely up to the whales to determine how this whole thing is going to work. They are the ones who have the influence to incentivize behavior in any meaningful way. To ask people not to buy upvotes is never going to work. Why? Because you're asking them to make a sacrifice for the greater good of something that they aren't invested in. I'm not saying it's right, but why would someone with .5 STEEM care at all about the value of STEEM? It is leagues more beneficial for them to abuse the system to gain some traction than self-sacrifice to do the right thing when everyone else is benefitting from doing the wrong thing. It's an issue of incentives. The people who set the incentives are incentivized to set the incentives in such a way that it bleeds the platform dry.

$1.35

9 votes

son-of-satire (69) · 7 years ago (edited)

Selling votes seems pretty cut and dry damaging to the platform, but its literally the only way for the majority of users to make any sort of progress.

I would need you to define what you mean by progress in this context. If you mean SP, then one could simply convert their SBD's into SP, or sell it on the market and then buy STEEM to power up with. If you mean reputation score, then I would ask you; if all that reputation score means is how many times someone has paid to have their own work upvoted, does it really seem important enough to be measuring your progress on Steemit against?

I can empathize with your position. I truly can. But there are other ways of measuring progress, and other ways of acquiring it. There is the option to the "play the game," as I like to call it. You can go and read the work of others in your "niche" and leave insightful comments. Make "friends" and then you can all support one another as your accounts grow together. You can head over to discord and make yourself known in the chatrooms and give people a reason to end up on your blog upvoting your posts. This will certainly help one progress on Steemit, supposing they are not so unlikeable that it backfires.

Another possibility is to sweat for it. I have noticed it is getting more difficult for newcomers, and the vote-selling is largely responsible for that. But, if you can put in a graft and get out several quality posts a day, and retain that motivation to push on even during times when you're not getting what you feel you deserve, it will pay off in the end. I have seen the prolific ones succeed on here, just as I have witnessed this elsewhere.

Those options are there are right now, but I can assure you that if you all continue to buy votes, they will not be for much longer.

To ask people not to buy upvotes is never going to work.

I agree. I would like to believe that if they understood that their purchasing of votes was reversing the distribution of STEEM on the network and recentralizing the power in the hands of a few(who are obviously smart enough to know that they're doing this to you all and therefore unworthy of such power) that they would simply desist with the vote-buying. Unfortunately, however, I am no longer naive enough to believe this. I think the only chance there is to reverse the damage this is doing is to convince the sellers to close up shop. There is far less of them than there is buyers to convince. But, for all my ideas, I've none on how to convince a greedy bastard to let go of a cash cow.

I had just considered while finishing up that sentence that the possibility of a whale account, which was comprised of delegations from many, many dolphins and minnows, which sold votes, and which reinvested its liquidity and curation rewards into further helping to distribute STEEM across the network, could potentially work.

But.. no. This here is exactly the problem. We can't even be thinking of this as acceptable. Since when are rewards--the word the Steemit developers chose to use, something that you can purchase? I still think Steemit has a chance, but we need to realise we are looking at the evolution of money in a microcosm. We have seen where the greed-based mindset takes an economy. I think we ought not to walk blindly down a path we already walked once, and hated. That's why we came here, wasn't it?

$0.97

10 votes

nonameslefttouse (74) · 7 years ago

If these people think the only way to get anything out of Steemit is to BUY their fucking trophies and put them on display, How in the actual fuck did I manage to earn this much money? I didn't BUY this MONEY!!!!

They want participation awards to make themselves feel better. I laugh hard at that and I don't believe in that mentality.

They buy their trophies. Morons. They put their trophies on display! BEST BOWLER EVER!! but you know what... some day someone might want to see them bowl!

Do people not know what WORKING is anymore!!

Anyway... rant over. How's it going? Happy new year.

$9.90

7 votes

son-of-satire (69) · 7 years ago

Perhaps it is that the word "rewards" was used instead of income. I believe this word was chosen intentionally, for gamification purposes, but it seems to have backfired and left everyone expecting something for free.

I'm doing well thank you. Spending the day with family I haven't seen in some time, so couldn't really ask for much more.

I hope you're doing well too, and happy new year indeed.

$0.36

nonameslefttouse (74) · 7 years ago

I've been rewarded in the past, on the job, when they gave me a raise. I had to work for that reward too.

It's this generation of participation awards and entitlement. This is quite the social experiment. Look at what we've discovered.

$0.00

mattjack (51) · 7 years ago

I'm truly sick of the entitlement culture, its destroying everything, there are less and less people able to create something of worth and out of that small percentage less and less could actually bother as 60 % of the reward will be taken and given to lazy non productive sheep who 100 years ago wouldnt even live past their 25 birthday due to natural selection and lack of welfare.

$0.00

aagabriel (58) · 7 years ago

I agree with prety much all of this chain of commenters.

$0.00

reidlist (56) · 7 years ago

Did you just join? I think if you have been well established in the early days you had a much better shot of being successful than most. I'm definitely not saying you don't deserve to be rewarded for joining early. You do. It's very hard these days to blog your way to success, especially in a sea of shitposts, and that's not even the point. The point is not just that it isn't easy to do, it's that you don't even have to do it.

People don't want participation awards, they want money, and they can make it right now. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying. People have an opportunity to make money by shitposting, we can all plea with them not to shitpost for the good of the platform, but they don't care about the platform succeeding, not until they have significant SP on the line. As long as people can easily make money by shitposting they will. Working hard is a great aspiration, and when you have to work hard to earn something, it's important to be able to work hard. When you don't have to work hard to get something, there are going to be people who don't work.

Hopefully I'm being overly pessimistic here, I dunno.

Hope you have a happy new year as well.

$0.06

nonameslefttouse (74) · 7 years ago

I joined, when I joined. Started with nothing, didn't know anyone, it was the same place, but without people selling votes. So imagine this for a second. That made it HARDER.

The point is not just that it isn't easy to do

Why does it have to be easy? Since when is life easy? What's wrong with a challenge? I grabbed this thing by the balls! I climbed this mountain! I got to the top! I looked! There was another damn mountain!

Kept going.

Shit post this, shit post that. I don't post shit posts. I've had a few flops. I just kept on going. I don't care about shit posts. They don't bother me. They are not my competition. They are shit posts.

You're being way too pessimistic. If you scroll down to the bottom of my blog... you'll see how I struggled. For some reason you folks see us folks and want what we have. You want it NOW. You don't look to see what it took to actually have what you want.

Hard Work!

If you're here for money, but don't feel like working... you came to the wrong place.

$0.00

reidlist (56) · 7 years ago

I think we're probably just talking across from one another at this point. I'm not saying it has to be easy, I'm saying it is easy... It's easy to do it the wrong way. There is a huge amount of money to be made with bid bots. Way more than anyone just starting could make by writing quality content. You say you don't care about shit posts, but you should, because shit posts are making 10x what you're making on your legitimate content. They're robbing it from the reward pool and dragging the price of steem down with it.

It's not as simple as convincing people to grab the challenge by the horns for the sake of pride. It's literally convincing people to work hard for scrap instead of cheating to make money hand over fist. People don't much care about pride in that sense.

I don't look at you and want what you have NOW. I look at you and I see a lot of hard work to build a lot of value that people are now robbing from you.

nonameslefttouse (74) · 7 years ago

I know what those shit posts are doing!

That's why I'm a little bit ticked off. Pardon me.

I'm not working hard for scrap.

Even if I earn less, I'm still doing better.

I don't want to sit and argue back and forth with long boring essays about nothing though. All apologies. I'm done here.

$0.00

Show 5 more replies

introvertspeaks (51) · 7 years ago

Nice comment! I follow you now. Very good post!

$0.00

chronogn (60) · 7 years ago

But without people buying Steem, would steemhave any value? I think one of the cool idea that came out of steem is that you can actually get paid for your posts. Which you can spend on real world goods/services. Without someone buying steem, steem wouldn't have any physical world value.

$0.55

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

I bought a little steam to power up but I won't to it again. Steem is currently to expensive and the return for your $ is to small.

I think that with the recent jump in Steem price new users will not make it past plankton any more.

$0.00

chronogn (60) · 7 years ago

Isn't that where the bots come in though? Return for your $ by powering up is small so people run to bots to get some views/votes for their $.

$0.00

reidlist (56) · 7 years ago

By progress I simply mean getting to "the top" having high SP. You are correct that you can just put your SBD into SP, but you still have to earn that SBD in the first place. I don't really expect to get very far here. I am a "blogger" on a platform that is 100% other bloggers. It does not have people who are passive viewers because there is nothing of value here to passive viewers. I don't mean to cast judgement on people's content here, but it isn't anything that you couldn't find on a blog or reddit. Hopefully that will change considering how much better this is for content creators.

I have been playing the game because I'm just curious to see how it goes. I have slowly built up to 100 followers, probably only a few of which are interested in my content. They all just want to trade upvotes. That's okay, but it's not a real content provider-content consumer relationship. Many of the whales get comments and upvotes because people are praying they can get "blessed" with an upvote, not because they genuinely want to consume the content. If a whale moved to a non-rewards platform, their viewership from Steemit would likely plummet.

I agree with you that vote buying will kill Steem, and I agree that the only option is to target the sellers. They are handing out free money on a street corner. To try to convince people to not take the money and go get a job instead is just foolish. It's not in line with human nature. People would rather get $50 out of Steem today with bid bots than work hard over the next few months and get $500. You cannot plea with them not to take the money by pointing out the damage they cause, because they have nothing invested in the platform. If they don't use bid bots, they'll allow some percentage of people to still have a healthy platform to make the $500, but as a result, most will likely not ever even get their $50.

It is for this reason that I don't plan to invest long term here. I put in money, I'm really not liking what I'm seeing right now, so I'm taking it out. I plan on sticking around and commenting. Being a viewer, since I think that's what Steemit needs most, but the way this whole thing is going gives people every reason to suck it dry, and no reasons to invest into it properly.

Hopefully I'm wrong.

$0.24

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

It is for this reason that I don't plan to invest long term here. I put in money, I'm really not liking what I'm seeing right now, so I'm taking it out. I plan on sticking around and commenting. Being a viewer, since I think that's what Steemit needs most, but the way this whole thing is going gives people every reason to suck it dry, and no reasons to invest into it properly.

The same conclusion I came today as well. I might not down power right away but I certainly won't put any more money in. And I also will stop shilling on other platforms. I only shill what I truly believe in.

$0.00

bashadow (65) · 7 years ago

I like that response of yours. There really is no need to buy a vote. If a person is willing to buy a vote, then they are willing to sell their vote. That is not and never has been an acceptable behavior, at least not an acceptable behavior to me I should clarify. To each their own I guess.

$0.14

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

I fear that Steemit reaches the point where new user have no chance to make it past plankton any more.

For example you suggest: “Buy STEEM to power up with.” Not an option any more. One year ago you could buy yourself up to be a Minnow for ≈$350. But with Steem and Steam-Power currently at $5,88 that would need ≈$12'000 to become Minnow.

$0.00

anthonyadavisii (70) · 7 years ago (edited)

its literally the only way for the majority of users to make any sort of progress

That's simply not true. We can make progress without bid bots but it just takes more effort to create something of value. It doesn't necessarily mean your post will get the rewards it probably deserved compared to the volumes of crap being self-voted and bid botted to trending but at least you will have one the thing these shitposters lack. Integrity and sense of a job well done.

Sure, those things aren't going to pay the bills but, if we really want this platform to change for the better, we have to start with ourselves. I've taken a difficult stance towards bid bots and self voting. Something just feels kind of messed about the whole system. I think if we want the world to look at Steem as a legit platform, we need to get away from this vote selling because tbh those things scream Ponzi scheme.

We should all have an equal voice with fair opportunity for rewards. What we have done by allowing bid bots is allow the sweat equity principle to go to the wayside. We've basically said forget about working hard to create quality content. If you don't have $$$ to use a bid bot or self vote (injecting perception of value into your content using stake), your voice isn't as important than those that do. I cannot support such a thing.

$0.00

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

I have to disagree with your first paragraph: The self-voters and vote-buyers take so much out of the system that there not enough left for honest users.

I see one posting, with a promised $0.0x reward, not paying out after the other. On payout day it drops from $0.0x to $0.00. I don't care about the penny. It's the lack of appreciation what hurts.

And it's the other way around as well: if I upvote then other person won't even get a single penny either. I even bought some steem to power up so my votes count. But with Steem at $5 I can't really buy enough steem to make a difference. The only thing that happened: I lost my new user delegation.

The combination of bit bots, self vote and hight steem price endanger the platform.

anthonyadavisii (70) · 7 years ago

@krischik

The combination of bit bots, self vote and hight steem price endanger the platform.

I agree. That's why I opt out but keep posting.

$0.00

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

You are absolutely right. This is why selling votes should be punished. A temporary ban might be a way. But I don't know if the blockchain has actually provisions for bans at all.

$0.00

chronogn (60) · 7 years ago

I agree. 1 account flagging people won't be changing anything. Which it shouldn't anyways.

freebornangel (73) · 7 years ago

When a whale votes everybody elses vote has some payout taken away.
When a whale delegates the weight of everybodys sp drops.
If only one vote is cast all the reward pool goes to that one
vote.

If the top wasnt sucking it all up we could easily see minnow rewards double.
Its just a fact in the math.

$0.19

krischik (61) · 7 years ago

And if you are plankton you don't get any rewards at all any more. Something needs to be done.

$0.07

freebornangel (73) · 7 years ago

Something was done, and it led to this.
It is hard to get established, but that is true in any business.

Just keep putting out your content and your audience will find you.

$0.00

horlly (25) · 7 years ago

Nice and good posts ..more of it..
Your upvotes on this post, and in the comments, would suggest to me that you're as much of a greedy abuser of the system as the villains you are trying to paint for us.

$0.00

smartin777 (29) · 7 years ago

that is so true and could't be said better

$0.00

r351574nc3 (72) · 7 years ago

Actually, it's not true. Selling votes is the equivalent of purchasing advertising space on a billboard, racing jersey, etc... Those with valuable content, but not enough steem power, it is the only way to get noticed quickly. In Steem, users with the most steem power, followers and votes, trend to the top. The rich just get richer and the poor stay poor.

Voting bots offer the ability for users with quality content to remain competitive with others that are hoarding all the voting influence. Voting bots actually make things fair for new steemians. It's economics.

$0.00

kaisersun (46) · 7 years ago

It is a shame to find out that this kind of activity is happening on Steemit. I thought that I was becoming involved with a group that was about the manipulation that i have seen on Reddit and others.

I know that there is always going to be a way to work the system, but this is just unfair and buries the new new guys before they can get started.

With that being said , I think the 7 day reward window is to short for individuals that want to build long term relevant materials. What about the fact that the material could be found later and keep finding new audience members. What if the information is seasonal and comes back around to relevance each year?

These encourages short windowed articles that are thin in content.

$0.00

imkent (28) · 7 years ago

hahaha.. what the hell is happening in here? first doge now cat!! whats next? its just insane :)

$0.00

grumpycat (70) · 7 years ago

$0.00

chronogn (60) · 7 years ago

So, what is that post that he linked to all about?

pawsdog (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

I have not totally figured that post out either, save that I think it was an pretty good illustration of how damaging self voting can be to the system; which may of been the point.

I can certainly see this as an effective policy depending upon how it is implemented. Do I think one account flagging can accomplish the mission if done manually? Nope.. Not a chance in hell.

People will continue to play the lotto with upvoting services as there is only so much that @grumpcat could do. If 100 users purchase votes and only 1 or 3 or 5 of those are flagged, then most users will feel as though they have a 95% chance of getting by, getting the upvote and continuing to abuse the system.

If done with a script that monitors the wallets of selected vote selling services and downvotes in response to SP transferred into those accounts then yes I could see it being effective as there would be no lotto to be played and you are guaranteed a down vote for attempting to purchase votes and not acquire them organically through good content creation.

Perhaps even have the script comment saying "You were downvote as this account is suspected of funding terrorism."

This goes back to what I have said in comments numerous times over the past few days. Why go head to head with a superior army, when you can just go after the farmers that grow the wheat to feed the army. The latter will eventually starve the vote selling services out an discourage their use. I could even see a script that randomly downvotes the followers of offending vote selling services to further motivate them out of popularity.

While some may see what @grumpycat is doing as heavy handed, its needed whereas vote selling services are not. Vote selling services are not the only way to get noticed or make any progress; tirelessly working, networking and creating quality content do the same thing, its just more work. To me it's someone finally standing up and taking an aggressive stance against the vote selling market that has established itself here.

The truth is not everyone can write, not everyone has interesting information to share, not everyone is smart. Steemit in purest form is supposed to eliminate those that cannot create competitive content and let the cream rise to the top. Vote buying services dilute the pool by allowing those with little to no talent, or those that are just lazy to dilute the content of authors that can write, put in the work and deserve to be noticed.

samvado (30) · 7 years ago

totally makes sense to me. Vote selling is undermining the steemit idea to the max. it must be abolished.

$0.00

pawsdog (55) · 7 years ago

I agree, next to go should be self exploitative self voting practices

anthonyadavisii (70) · 7 years ago

I'm going to put that on my list of Python things to do. If I can make a working prototype, maybe there would be a few benevolent whales to fund it. I'm already working on a flag rewards project which I think you may be interested. Follow @steemflagrewards if you would like to participate. It's going to be kind of like an optional jury summons where people vote on whether a post deserved a flag and create posts which will be rewarded to the flaggers. Already making some headway pulling the data for downvoted posts in trending which is exactly what brought me here today. ;)

$0.00

pawsdog (55) · 7 years ago

I like, not sure how I can help.. I"m a long way from a benevolent whale status.. lo.. but I have brains and time to contribute..

$0.00

anthonyadavisii (70) · 7 years ago

That'll help. I'll try to get the function to select 3 or random followers of @steemflagrewards for the first "jury summons" if you will.

I want to make it so there is representation from different levels of Steem Power to help prevent the process from being skewed in favor of those that hold the most power. I think this has some potential but I just need to ensure it isn't used to take sides in this pissing contest of flags that's currently going on.

$0.00

pawsdog (55) · 7 years ago

Sounds good

$0.00

safetony (47) · 7 years ago

hey @grumpycat I'm giving away a free cat in support of what your doing https://steemit.com/free/@safetony/free-crypto-kitty-giveaway

$0.00

ozmaga (50) · 7 years ago

$0.00

grumpydog (25) · 7 years ago

Ruff ruff

$0.00

onlinehelp (25) · 7 years ago

www.htdthis.blogspot.com

$0.00

ozmaga (50) · 7 years ago

$0.00

jazminmillion (71) · 7 years ago (edited)

What you do is not cool and I could debate these points to the end of the moon to prove my case.

$139.70

littleboy (72) · 7 years ago

This is something I definitely support. But I think the bigger problem is the selling regardless of quality. Spam plagiarism and all kinds of shitposts are getting to the trending page.

$20.05

10 votes

anamarena (52) · 7 years ago

Omg...I live in a fictional world. If the rules say to write the original quality text, then I try and do so. And it turns out tt spam articles in the top and the less effort the more popular. Nevertheless, I would be ashamed to copy someone's work. But this is upon conscience of everyone.
Too upset now. Will go to make a coffee and calm down...

$2.23

5 votes

theinsideout (52) · 7 years ago

I'll join you for coffee. Buying upvotes, IMO, is just buying visibility. People who already have a lot of SP and/or powerful friends can enjoy that without voting bots. Obviously, rising to the top has little to do with quality most of the time and a lot to do with the SP one can command either through buying, having, or working with others.

I will say most bots are pretty crappy and getting crappier so far as the value they give for payments anyway. I hope everybody who wants to buy votes knows how to use this Steem bot tracker: http://s3.amazonaws.com/yabapmatt/bottracker/bottracker.html

rijal10 (51) · 7 years ago

$0.00

buttcoins (67) · 7 years ago

upbutt me i upbutt you pleez

$1.70

chronogn (60) · 7 years ago

I get an upbutt you get an upbutt. We all get a upbutt.

$0.24

erodedthoughts (66) · 7 years ago

Butted

$0.00

thomaslknapp (57) · 7 years ago

Buncha buttheads here, it seems :)

$0.19

nicnas (66) · 7 years ago (edited)

Remove all your spam or ill downvote them so I do not have to see this crap everywhere.

$0.80

buttcoins (67) · 7 years ago

@nicnas i will assume you are referring to rijal10 and usmanjutt. as i am saying the same thing as you...but in a lighthearted package.

$0.00

nicnas (66) · 7 years ago

$0.00

gothika47 (48) · 7 years ago

Spam plagiarism and all kinds of shitposts are getting to the trending page.

Thats the main reason i dislike the site. Also there is no way to block bots that spam generic shit on everyone of my posts.

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

give me vote and follow i also give you vote and follow and also like this comment

$0.00

ats-david (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

I mean...I'm not opposed to this...

At some point we need to realize that these vote-selling services are really only directing the limited daily rewards to mostly shitposts. The people offering the votes for sale are being paid regardless of the quality of content being upvoted, so they really don't have any reason to care how the pool is allocated. And the ones selling the votes powered by delegation have even less reason to care.

I say, do what you want with your downvotes. If these services and users can't overcome the effects of counter-votes, then I guess they don't have much support after all and the stake-weighted market will have spoken.

This is just a social media site anyway (and not even a good one). Sometimes we tend to take things a little too seriously when it comes to upvotes and downvotes...because money.

$13.75

nicnas (66) · 7 years ago (edited)

too bad this post is coming from someone who isnt the greatest example. A better push and implementation would be nice

$32.31

12 votes

joblissby (40) · 7 years ago

He does not have the moral right to post such.

$1.03

battleaxe (69) · 7 years ago

it's witnesses imho like him and other not so fuzzy types who have the cajones to give a damn about the overall well being of the platform, just my two little pesos

$0.27

ifartrainbows (48) · 7 years ago

Screenshot-2017-12-9-(1)-Steemit-Chat.jpg

$0.22

rijal10 (51) · 7 years ago

$0.00

Your Reputation Could be a Tasty Snack with the Wrong Comment!

steemcleaners (83) · 7 years ago

Spam is discouraged by the community, including comment spam.

Comment spam is currently defined by @steemcleaners as:
10 or more generic comments per day that are not in response to a question posed by the post or comment. “Thanks”, “Great Post!”, “Nice”, “Follow me”, etc

Thank You!

$3.60

nicnas (66) · 7 years ago

remove this spam and earn your followers.

$0.00

cozyrx (34) · 7 years ago

True

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

$0.00

relationtrip (55) · 7 years ago

no usmanjutt, that's not how it works....

$0.00

aftabkhan10 (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

I myself is not of this idea as a whole of these vote selling, but I don't know what this @grumpycat has to do with this thing posts not older than 3.5 days? Why don't you guys make a rule of not upvoting low posts? It is really irritating to see guys posting a single pic or a quote and pay for upvotes. Why would someone even try to produce something good if they know that they can pay for an upvote.
Me myself try to produce something good, but alas coz of no upvotes, I have to pay for upvotes to get that exposure. But I guess no body even cares for you when you are not of the value to them. But yeah still I believe in working hard and will continue to do it.

$0.79

11 votes

dieterschneider (55) · 7 years ago

It is really irritating to see guys posting a single pic or a quote and pay for upvotes

You mean like this?: https://steemit.com/life/@aftabkhan10/black-and-white-challenge-or-share-your-guesses

I can't see the problem with paying for upvotes, it's not much different than paying for ads. You become more visible, but if people don't like your content you won't earn money on it anyway. Unless, you have a lot of steem power and powerful friends or fans (which is a bigger problem).

$0.00

aftabkhan10 (65) · 7 years ago

Lol, you gotta be an idiot to not understand what I meant by what I said.

$0.00

dieterschneider (55) · 7 years ago

Sorry, it would have been easier to understand if you wrote in English...

$0.00

aftabkhan10 (65) · 7 years ago

Well I guess people in Norway speak English, right?

$0.00

sarabjones (34) · 7 years ago

I went to that post, it's a black and white photo challenge and he had some interesting speculations. It's not deep but I don't think he was just filling space for money. I don't understand judging it, if you don't like it why don't you just move along? I'm seriously asking why it matters to you if there is any possibility that your wrong that he is just throwing something up there to get upvotes from bots and friends. I am sincerely asking, I don't get it why you care.

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

$0.00

samreenfarooq (33) · 7 years ago

seriously people vote for money we need to change aur minds

$0.07

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

give me vote and follow i also give you vote and follow and also like this comment

$0.00

shaoork (25) · 7 years ago

I really hadn't known about this concept of thought. We shouldn't be taking things too seriously.

$0.00

jayd2605 (25) · 7 years ago

Miaau miauu prr. great job miuaau.

$0.00

greenwhell79 (46) · 7 years ago

thanks for upvote and resteem

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

$0.00

berniesanders (77) · 7 years ago

Please add @randowhale to your list! Thanks!!

$7.84

16 votes

mgarcia6278 (11) · 7 years ago

$0.00

drakos (70) · 7 years ago (edited)

Why are you listing only a few bidbots, when there's a lot more than that? http://steembottracker.com/
You have been raping the reward pool yourself, I don't see the point of trying to police the platform when your own practices are corrupt. Get straight or get out.

$6.82

14 votes

lexiconical (72) · 7 years ago

I'm sure he'll take your suggestion under due advisement, while he dives into his Scrooge McDuck vault:

Abuse 3.png

$2.33

5 votes

reidlist (56) · 7 years ago

I've never seen a shit post worth five figures before.

littleboy (72) · 7 years ago

Says the girl who votes primarily on her boyfriend.

$0.00

sirstacksalot (63) · 7 years ago

What does it even matter? I've used vote purchasing services in the past and found that the reward was not worth the cost. I'd have been further ahead with the smaller reward and keeping my initial investment.

$5.87

natebelt83 (60) · 7 years ago

Great post and honestly strikes up great conversation. And that is one of the great things of this platform. Thank you for your post.

$5.08

donutboy (55) · 7 years ago

why are there skirmishes breaking out? It makes me sad.

$4.35

6 votes

syncubate (50) · 7 years ago

The skirmishes are perhaps a consequence of steem's poor performance relative to #bitcoin and other leading cryptocurrencies. At its highs in 2016, steem was worth over 0.006 BTC. Some of the whales may finally be realizing that the value of steem is inextricably tied to the crypto community's perception of steemit as a platform. Until that perception improves via constructive changes to steemit itself, then steem will likely continue to lag the broader market.

$0.37

donutboy (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

seems like a short sighted panic over an over amplified fear. everyone on here today will eventually reach the level of a whale, it is built in the automation of the system.

I am seeing a lot of outcries and a sense of entitlement from people who have not put into the work or effort and are crying why they too can not yet be financially independent using SteemIt. Steem will grow the more people learn how to use it and the more development is done on it to replace current social media sites.

instant gratification and whining is not going to make it better, it is only going to make people dread coming here as this too gets polluted by that whiny entitled crowd.

the irony is that people seem to be paying out large sums of rewards for people to complain.

what if there is a large segment of internet users who really love GIFs? why can't they use SteemIt and profit from it, why is that considered of less value to someone who posts a long essay about the story of genesis?

I think the flagging feature is being abused by suppressors of free speech. micro transactions for micro-blogging and micro-posts. It is not a winner take all economy, it is a shared micro economy.

so I will upvote any and all comments and posts of users and things I like, and that is what makes this platform so awesome.

would you rather Instagram and other social media companies generate unshared value from all your likes and comments on their platforms?

too much slave on slave hate.

$9.63

ceattlestretch (53) · 7 years ago (edited)

"the value of steem is inextricably tied to the crypto community's perception of steemit as a platform" Worth a follow right there

This is absolutely true and that perception will only change with growth plus a functioning system that is not engaged in constant civil war.

$0.00

nocmnt (50) · 7 years ago (edited)

When did Bitcoin come out?
When did Steem come out?

what will your life look like when one steem is equal one current bitcoin?
will you be supporting grumpy cat? or better users?

the choice is yours

$0.00

syncubate (50) · 7 years ago (edited)

Bitcoin is not distinctly associated with a social media / blogging platform the way that steem is. The value of steem, in my opinion, is inextricably tied to the perception of this platform. Very few exchanges offer it for trading/investing. Accordingly, the daily trading liquidity is minuscule compared to the Top 10 cryptos. Unless it is marketed with a focus more on the benefits of the steem blockchain itself. Which may in fact be happening with the push towards SMTs.

$0.00

nocmnt (50) · 7 years ago

well I think it had been the best social media experience until winner takes all mentality, I am assuming the majority of who are new, started wanting to control how the platform can move to satisfy their needs instead of realizing that this is an automatic system and we each are independent as well as dependent to make it work.

i've met some awesome people and had some great discussions on here so far, combined with the file storage capacities. This is a revolution and I am not sure why the media is not reporting on what could be the great invention to benefit mankind since the technoevolution

$0.03

reidlist (56) · 7 years ago

Well, there is a lot at stake. It's kind of a free for all here. Basically, the only way any sort of order can be implemented is if the top players use their power to strike down anything that doesn't match their vision. It ends up being mayhem because there are so many people with differing visions, but I'm glad there are people who care enough to prevent the platform from moving in directions that will make it die. It is rough to see, but it is certainly an interesting sociological phenomenon.

$0.17

contentjunkie (73) · 7 years ago

This just highlights the failures of decentralized anarcho-capitilism and how it leads to warring tribes and fascists imposing themselves with violence. Oh the irony.

$0.33

bizzz (39) · 7 years ago

The internet is turning into the human version of hivemind. It's fascinating to take a step back and look at the evolution from a macro-scale. The paradigm shift from losing money off the internet to making money off the internet for the casual user does indeed have high stakes.

$0.00

delusionalmadman (57) · 7 years ago

"Basically, the only way any sort of order can be implemented is if the top players use their power to strike down anything that doesn't match their vision."

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

$0.00

dafro (49) · 7 years ago

Spamcomments like these have nothing to do on steemit. If you dont stop I will follow you and downvote all your future posts!

$0.12

theprintuplist (39) · 7 years ago (edited)

Hurry,take notes...change of plans.

$0.00

donutboy (55) · 7 years ago

this human gets it,
why can't you?

$0.00

barineka (56) · 7 years ago

Sorry see the bright side

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

give me vote and follow i also give you vote and follow

$0.00

donutboy (55) · 7 years ago

low standards man

$10.21

hemanthoj (61) · 7 years ago

Though i buy upvotes, i strongly support this. There should be more and more people like @grumpycat who will flag down the junk. If we want to see steemit as the best alternative to all the other social networks, certain measures are to be taken by steemians. I am tired of buying upvotes to grow on this community. I do post original content regularly and still achieve nothing. At the end of the day, i still had to buy a upvote just to earn 0.5 sbd more. What's the use when only the rich gets awarded ? It's high time we earn with content and not by buying upvotes. Welcome @grumpycat Good concept and waiting for your execution.

$3.88

skreza (61) · 7 years ago

even though this post itself has so many paid votes 😂😂😂

$2.67

silverstackeruk (70) · 7 years ago (edited)

I hate shit this. More auto flagging bots on steemit means more problems. Steemit is confusing for new members, now they gotta learn all this stuff as well. For a ''decentralized'' platform there are alot of rules to keep track of. I also see that i am maybe to only negative comment in the post, i cant believe that an auto spamming bot account would get so much love considering how hated the rest of the auto spamming bot are. I might get flagged but whatever.

And just to finish off, this grumpycat account has made 1 post and the payout so far is $540. Wheres that money go? into the community it's ''serving'' are the owners pockets. Yeah, thought so......

Auto Flag (spam) bots = big money for owners. Dont pretend your helping others by forcing rules and filling your pockets.

I might be way off with comment and if so, im sorry but to me it looks like another spam bot.

$2.23

9 votes

inquiringtimes (64) · 7 years ago

De-centralised means the community decides the rules, not that there aren't any.

Grumpycat has a huge investment into this platform, so that will explain why these posts are high value.

rawdawg (61) · 7 years ago

Dear, my brothers will send you wonderful goat milk to wet lips of compliant cat protecting the riches of Steemers everywhere. You will be a fat cat from the milks of finest goats. Return the riches to every ones quickly.

$1.60

battleaxe (69) · 7 years ago

some days I'm so freaking glad I'm lactose intolerant .....

$0.03

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

$0.00

jie28 (56) · 7 years ago

Great one

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

give me vote and follow i also give you vote and follow to every post and also like this comment

$0.00

theinsideout (52) · 7 years ago

Does spamming like this actually ever work?

$0.00

excy4yaweh (38) · 7 years ago

hahahahh....i will also add a bowl of honey to that...

$0.00

bigbraincciuto (55) · 7 years ago

lol

$0.00

syncubate (50) · 7 years ago (edited)

Perhaps this could be implemented across the platform by simply not allowing upvotes after 72 hours?

In defense of the more reputable bot services, they appear to be the only way that newer users without sizeable follower counts can garner attention to their posts. Otherwise, their content often gets lost in the mix amidst the trending posts published by more established users.

I say this from experience after hardly ever using bots in the past and only recently employing them. I don't think bots are an ideal mechanism by which rewards should be distributed to begin with. But the platform as it is structured right now enables this system.

It is at least reassuring to see that whales such as yourself are mindful of the abuses that are occurring on steemit. But on a more holistic level, this is just placing a bandage on an open wound - while it addresses a symptom, it doesn't delve into the systemic deficiencies that have spurred the disparities in reward distribution to begin with.

Ultimately, I am not sure what the solution is, but it will likely require a meeting of the minds among whales that actually care about the long term viability of this platform to initiate constructive changes. This appears to be a step in that direction; if nothing else, it will spur much needed discussion and ideas for appropriate corrective actions to be taken. For steemit's sake.

$1.36

geekorner (58) · 7 years ago

Perhaps this could be implemented across the platform by simply not allowing upvotes after 72 hours?

It's already tough enough for those of us who write posts that take 4+ hours to write and 30+ minutes to read with the 7 day limitation.

Your idea is only going to further help the shitpost or easily consumable content creators. Some of us make content that is long-term useful and takes longer to appreciate, and if anything, we'd like to get a bigger window of upvotes, and also better ways for people to find our content.

syncubate (50) · 7 years ago

Fair enough. But with the upvote abuse that is evidently rampant with the existing seven day window, I can't imagine what it would be like if this window was extended even further. I understand your point regarding the time and effort put into writing quality posts - I have written about this issue myself, and my post upholds the utility that bots offer serious contributors without sizeable follower counts in trying to get recognition. It is simply impossible under the current paradigm as it exists across the platform - whales and those they support will invariably get the most attention drawn to their content via the trending section.

$0.00

geekorner (58) · 7 years ago

Forgive me, but I decided to answer this as its own comment in order to hopefully spread the information, and because it's gotten long enough.

$0.55

leprechaun (56) · 7 years ago

Software that uses a Steem node can respond in seconds to a payment. Do you think a seven days limit prevents a script from responding?

$0.00

pocketechange (58) · 7 years ago

I just made a post called "Decentralized Up-Votes...

COIN MAN by @pocketechange

$0.00

abh12345 (76) · 7 years ago

Perhaps this could be implemented across the platform by simply not allowing upvotes after 72 hours?

It's easy for the bot owners to make this change, yes. And personally, If i was a bot owner I would go with this plan.

I would see this as a chance to make a big deal about it and advertise the fact that you are helping give time for 'the cat' to flag the 'poor content'. I think the Bot owner who takes this stance first will do well.

3/4 days is plenty of time to Bot a post, I must admit to waiting this long purely to let my followers who aren't around every day a change to get in before extra $$ comes so their curation is boosted.

Cheers!

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

give me vote and follow i also give you vote and follow to every post and also like this comment

$0.00

ezekielpink (25) · 7 years ago

come on why did i just do that?

$0.00

cabbage-dealer (59) · 7 years ago

Looking back at this, i really didn't think anyone was gonna comply, but damn, most of them sure did. I guess money really does talk, RIP all the SBD lost.

$1.31

jumowa (65) · 7 years ago

Instead us who don't pay for votes will get 100% votes from you, amr, amr?! :D.

I do a weekly #runforsteem challenge that could use some exposure next week. Starting every saturday. Don't vote for it today, it's the last day of the challenge and a new one begins tonight.

So far we have runners from the UK, Germany, the US who run, post their results and I pay them for it ones a week. Check us out if you like to earn while working out.

If this begging was too obvious, I don't regret it. It's a good thing ;)

Hugs!

Jumowa

$1.10

steemitfriend (64) · 7 years ago

The truth hurts...

$1.05

glennolua (68) · 7 years ago

People will abuse the upvote bots because money and greed is involved. But there are people that try their best to produce good content and use the upvote bots b/c they wish to stay on this platform and gain monetarily just like the dolphins/whales.

But can anyone just place a regulation on services here? And if they do not like what is going on, downvote?

Not everyone that is using the upvote bots will see this post, so I guess they will eventually figure it out when they use the bot after 3.5 days... (And how was the 3.5 days determined???)

$0.96

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Kind of ironic to make a post about reward pool rape when you upvote your own comments "SBD Correction" for $140 10+ times/day for weeks.

You did pretty fucking well raping the reward pool last week posting a single comment "SBD Correction" over and over and upvoting it. In fact, you probably made more in the last week than every person who submitted a post older than 3.5 days in the last month combined pulling in almost $20K USD posting "Place Holder" and "SBD Correction" comments.

You destroyed all the posts my curation team worked on for the week because my delegator flagged you for doing the above. You also went and flagged me which I assume for the same reason. My curation team who spends hours every day giving back to the community had nothing to do with anything, and you decided to destroy all their work because you got flagged for doing just what you are fighting against. I had nothing to do with your reward pool rape and the fact you got flagged for it, but you decided to attack me too.

You are just a terrorist and it sounds like you just want to rape the reward pool and randomly flag.

While I don't disagree with not accepting posts after a certain point, I have been planning on locking it off for 5 days, you are the last one to be preaching about reward pool rape and there is no doubt you will just rape the reward pool yourself or flag anyway, what's the point?

$0.95

rougebot (58) · 7 years ago (edited)

MarkyMark, those are some pretty damn good points and indeed the grumpy cat has done it and it has been doing the things which he intend to stop to so Mr.Cat how does it justify ur work that u want to do.

and just look at this ur reply, kitty ur comment is just "fixed" and nothing else how the fuck is it worth a 131$ upvote. U have ur power but the thing is u are raping the pool more than others. so idk what u want to do by doing that limiting off time on bid bots.

$0.25

drakos (70) · 7 years ago

$0.00

bbrewer (58) · 7 years ago

This is true. Seen it with my own eyes.

$0.00

grumpycat (70) · 7 years ago

$0.00

lanmower (60) · 7 years ago

the juggler at work.

$0.00

scarlet7 (59) · 7 years ago (edited)

$0.00

lexiconical (72) · 7 years ago

You going to defend this? Grumpy votes on a sock puppet:

Abuse 3.png

You and Marky would do well to agree to disagree and focus on the BANK ROBBERY taking place while you two fight over the "take a penny, leave a penny" tray.

$0.00

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago (edited)

$0.00

usmanjutt (16) · 7 years ago

$0.00

scarlet7 (59) · 7 years ago (edited)

$0.00

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

There were no lies, the site steem.supply had a bug, later the site reported he was taking 1,200% of the reward pool. The developer has since fixed it, but the end result is no different, once you factor in SBD -> STEEM price, the % is actualy higher. I've already shown the math a few times.

I am not @berniesanders and I have no control what he does, but I totally agree one author getting $25K USD/day is a problem and completely support that. Feel free to twist it anyway that works for your cult.

$1.09

lexiconical (72) · 7 years ago

" I totally agree one author getting $25K USD/day is a problem"

This is totally arbitrary. Why? What is acceptable?

Show your work.

$0.00

scarlet7 (59) · 7 years ago

$0.00

scarlet7 (59) · 7 years ago

$0.00

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

The number was wrong in the context but it is still accurate due to the conversion of SBD.

It is a cult, all the users follow him blindly and attack on command. They have zero investment or participation in Steem. All they do is act as an echo chamber or harass anyone who isn’t in the group.

$0.91

scarlet7 (59) · 7 years ago

$0.00

Show 4 more replies

scarlet7 (59) · 7 years ago (edited)

$0.00

moeknows (60) · 7 years ago

The motto is "Do no harm". You and haejin and rancho have done that to a high extent to this platform. You guys aren't involved with the steemit community, so you didn't know that you had a voice and that it could be used. If haejin had used that voice, he would have realized that this isn't a community rallying around bernie. This is a community of individuals still in disagreement over the daily pay of analysis that benefits very few people in the grand scheme of things. Instead, you guys chose to act in the very same manner as bernie. He downvotes those who disagree, so do you guys. He continuously upvotes himself, so do you guys. He has minions, so do you guys.

You guys have just as much access to the blockchain information as anybody. You can see for yourselves. You have caused steemit great harm and continue to do so out of spite and encouraged even more blatant raping of the rewards pool. You guys threatened to leave. While I doubt that you were serious (why would you leave a platform you are leeching millions from?), I wish you would. Either that or simply cause no more harm (in compliance with your own stated motto), which includes harm caused by your daily rancho upvotes.

Also two more points.

AND AGAIN, nobody thinks you shouldn't flag for disagreements on payment.

Many of your minions do.

But you shouldn't make 10k off of an inaccurate article that enrages people who blindly follow the bot lies as well

Didn't see a 10k post. Are you talking about bernie?

$0.19

scarlet7 (59) · 7 years ago

$0.00

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago (edited)

I have proof there are bots just look at his votes on steemd and you will see 20-40+ votes coming from each person in short time. There are lots of accounts doing this. The bots are no big deal as they have no stern power and don’t rape the reward pool, the issue is the $300 * 10 votes from one person.

$0.90

scarlet7 (59) · 7 years ago

$0.00

shehbaznawaz (53) · 7 years ago

I think every upvote selling bot should implement some sort of screening before upvoting, as lately I 've been seeing some pathetic content (mostly copy/paste) making tons...

$0.55

ericz (38) · 7 years ago

This would have been unnecessary if the developers of steem would have answered the simple question in v1.0 "What are we going to do about pay per click advertising?" "Will it be allowed?" I'm late to this party, but it looks incredibly "naive" that they didn't think of this way back then.

$0.50

syncubate (50) · 7 years ago

Agreed. They clearly didn't think through a lot of things. Dan Larimer isn't even heavily involved in the platform anymore and has moved on to EOS, which is valued at $5B at the time of this post.

$0.00

rossenpavlov (69) · 7 years ago

Thank you, it was about time to take actions.
The vote selling services are really ruining the Steemit experience. Flag them all the way!

garudi (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

▀

$0.36

5 votes

bitgeek (62) · 7 years ago

Congratulations @grumpycat, this post is the most rewarded post (based on pending payouts) in the last 12 hours written by a Superhero or Legend account holder (accounts hold greater than 100 Mega Vests). The total number of posts by Superhero and Legend account holders during this period was 32 and the total pending payments to posts in these categories was $3202.53. To see the full list of highest paid posts across all accounts categories, click here.

If you do not wish to receive these messages in future, please reply stop to this comment.

$0.32

schoonercreek (52) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the info, I'm new to Steemit and trying to learn the ropes. This seems very logical to me considering what attracted me to Steemit initially was the authentic "people power", genuinely voting for what they actually liked.

$0.32

freebornsociety (61) · 7 years ago

Real people are here, SC, just keep putting out good content and this war for freedom from oppressive control at the top will pass you by unscathed.
We need people to build the new.

$0.00

luzfermin (46) · 7 years ago

Siempre es bueno las restricciones, un poco de limitación ayuda a que las personas se centren como debe ser. No rompan reglas ni acuerdos. Siempre hay personas que lo hacen pero para que ser una más? .

$0.32

dzboston33 (64) · 7 years ago

I don't see a problem with this either, upvoting an older post doesn't get it onto a hot list or tending list in hopes of more attention from others. Basically, it is just trying to get a bit more rewards from that post.

I use voting bots, wish I didn't have to at the moment. But I use them early in hopes of gaining some more viewership. One day I hope I don't have to use them at all!

lexiconical (72) · 7 years ago

"I don't see a problem with this either, "

Yeah, except WHO IT IS COMING FROM:

Abuse 3.png

3 guesses who all those votes are from, and the first 2 don't count.

$0.54

erodedthoughts (66) · 7 years ago

Haejin? Blocktrades? Ned?

$0.00

dzboston33 (64) · 7 years ago

Oy. I meant the policy of not voting after 3 days. But I can't get behind this if the person pushing this is playing that type of game...

$0.00

inquiringtimes (64) · 7 years ago

Don't get any more attention from a huge vote after 3.5 days. No change in trending, ect

$0.00

r351574nc3 (72) · 7 years ago

This is extortion

rewardpoolrape (62) · 7 years ago

You're so nice for commenting on this post. For that, I gave you a vote!

$0.58

r351574nc3 (72) · 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks. I appreciate that. I've started a report to consolidate posts for people to upvote and help those that were victims to recoup their losses. https://steemit.com/abuse/@r351574nc3/grumpy-report-01-16-2018

Please Resteem it so we can go on helping.

$0.00

anarchistbanjo (50) · 7 years ago

When I first came on Steemit I saw the abuses of the system and decided that it was not for me. If I have to cheat to win then I don't want to play. I never thought of this platform as a way to get rich anyway. I did think it was a way to share thoughtful posts! I have been gratified to see my rep score gradually increase as I have been taken more seriously.

In this coming year I hope to do even better and I'm grateful that flagrant abuse of buying and selling of up votes is being addressed. I've never asked for one up vote!

$0.20

kennyroy (63) · 7 years ago

Sounds good @grumpycat... Whales and Dolphins will do another step to be responsible on their voting power to help others and not for their own interest only...

$0.16

petermarie (57) · 7 years ago

Okay... I'm totally confused. Can someone please, please, PLEASE, explain to me just a little about the reward pool and why a huge fuss is being made about it recently? I feel it's bad for Steemit that complaining posts such as these and other whales, witnesses and dolphins should be at the top of the trending page, but what do i know?

All I've ever thought about since joining is creating god content and bringing more persons in myself, and I plan to do this for as long as the platform exists. Are these issues a threat to the platform? Are they things a veteran must know? Can't we all just go back to our loving selves, all creating good content and benefiting from it? Because really that's all I want.
:'(

$0.14

littlejoeward (54) · 7 years ago (edited)

I think this problem will likely start to go away as we introduce better ways for people to see personally curated content. Unless you have a lot of followers, it is hard for your post to gain any traction. I am working on a feed that would show you posts that were upvoted by people you follow. So far it's been a lot better at finding good content than any other of the built in feeds. I just posted about my proof-of-concept here.

Any ideas would be appreciated!
(upvoted for visibility)

$0.13

jalzuruptc (25) · 7 years ago

I think that was a good ide. But the bigger problem is the selling regardless of quality. Spam plagiarism and all kinds of shitposts are getting to the trending page.

$0.08

jahangirbalti (58) · 7 years ago

WTF ... You received votes by all these service , to which you give warning .. What is This @upme @appreciator @buildawhale @booster

you all give 100% vote to this post and make it place in trending

do you all want to closed your services ??

$0.08

pawsdog (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out, as there are going to big hitters on both sides trying to enforce their respective wills.

$0.06

jonsnow1983 (67) · 7 years ago

Seems like we need a God or a superior force here on Steemit, just like real life; Cause we humans after many years haven't managed to get along, always thinking about ourselves and thinking just about fucking money (yeah money it's good but still) Meow!

$0.04

randystiefer (59) · 7 years ago

I have a legit question for the grumpy cat.

I do know some Steemians that actually wait to the very last moment to buy an upvote as a way to reward there human upvoters with a curation reward.

Would you be willing to exempt a new upvote service from this rule if it had an ROI of 0? meaning that after curations rewards the Steemian got back exactly what he paid for the upvote and the only ones who benefited where the up voters?

$0.03

tntdabomb (62) · 7 years ago

Sorry, I'm new here. Who are you exactly? Can someone here explain WTH is going on lol?

$0.02

introvertspeaks (51) · 7 years ago

Place holder. Check this out!

$0.00

haejin (88) · 7 years ago

What about plagiarism? How will you stand to stamp that out?

$0.00

jazminmillion (71) · 7 years ago

This guy is a joke, what a troll right?

$0.14

blacksheepblog (51) · 7 years ago

that cat is very cut when he's grumpy ;-)

$0.00

ifartrainbows (48) · 7 years ago

He let's the claws out, quick like.

$0.00

blacksheepblog (51) · 7 years ago

yeah I won't go too close ;-)

$0.00

ifartrainbows (48) · 7 years ago

I think he is just pissed steemit has turned in to a litter box. Grumpy is a tomcat who has always pissed outside and marked his territory.

$0.00

ahka (48) · 7 years ago

"Look to my coming on the first light of the fifteenth day, at dawn look to the east."
grumpy the grey

$0.00

mdsakil1234 (34) · 7 years ago

It makes me sad.

$0.00

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

Some of those vote sellers appear to have boosted this post. Does that mean they support it? I can understand minnows trying to make a little more, but some people who regularly trend are buying votes and self-voting to take an even larger share. That seems wrong to me.

$0.00

suggeelson (64) · 7 years ago

The Post is boosted by @checkthisout, and yes anyone who sends money will get an upvote, i personally add some accounts to blacklist who try to upvote shit posts in last days.

$0.23

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

Interesting that Grumpy has been supporting junk comments by that account. Who's raiding the pool?

$0.00

lexiconical (72) · 7 years ago

Grumpy is the abuser, in case you missed it:

Abuse 3.png

$1.02

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

This is why I'm confused. It's sad to see such greed that could destroy what we are building here

$0.00

drakos (70) · 7 years ago

And just now:

$0.00

suggeelson (64) · 7 years ago

This two accounts are same person, after big flag war this i guess is the way to redemption for this cat.

$0.00

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

I had guessed as much

$0.00

cyrexxlm (43) · 7 years ago

In fact ... this should be completely banned, scammers were doing the same thing on youtube, which made it a mess for all those genuine up-loaders...something else, businesses might start coming here to use it to sell their products which will make it even worse, this place should remain clean of all the negatives that made youtube they way it is today.

$0.00

jazminmillion (71) · 7 years ago (edited)

Meanwhile Grumpy cat uses the same bots he flags people for.

$0.13

topgeek (48) · 7 years ago

A welcome and timely intervention indeed. Lets ensure only quality gets rewarded

$0.00

itigridi (38) · 7 years ago

excuse me

$0.00

din (42) · 7 years ago

Much like the real world, a few unscrupulous people exploit holes in the system to the detriment of the community. Humanity 101

$0.00

cardoprimo (37) · 7 years ago

All this greedy nonsense around here is putting me off.. Vote for posts that you enjoy, simples!

$0.00

uber-dragon (45) · 7 years ago

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I understand your motive and that you're trying to help, yet I feel that many people will also suffer from your actions who didn't do anything wrong. I really hope this has your intended effect in the long run. This place should strive because of good content and not become a gold mine for people with no intention to contribute to the platform.

$0.00

thatanimesnob (48) · 7 years ago

I expect you to have a weekly list of those you downvote, if you want us to believe you are using your SP for good use.

$0.00

ameerkhan (37) · 7 years ago

I can't understand

$0.00

awesomianist (64) · 7 years ago

@grumpycat has taken it upon himself to police vote buying services. depending on how he does stuff, The sheriff may be in town.

$0.00

sequential (45) · 7 years ago

To be honest, I wantd posting somtin similar to this, ever since I joined this community, I've to discovered that, there are a group of corrupt people that their work is to sell vote to people, which it's not suppose to be so, this community suppose to be like, when you post something good, a post with good content, you get upvote from a follow member, some one will waste almost 2 to 3 hrs writing a post, just to have 5 to $50 ( ESPECIALLY minnor like me)

While some one will just, maybe without wasting up to 10min, post something, within 20min, you see $115. Hmmmm mm it's not fair.

I agree with you n I join this campaign
STOP SELLING VOTE

$0.00

thatanimesnob (48) · 7 years ago

This and Steemcleaners are the police of Steemit XD

$0.00

nypho (51) · 7 years ago

you are making sense, but lets really think about this issue.

$0.00

anchovy (46) · 7 years ago

Weren't you the same account that just fleeced the rewards pool for thousands of dollars the past few days with all your comment self voting? But I guess it is ok if you do it right?

$0.00

unicron (48) · 7 years ago

SP correction ;)
by the way, i think you are kinda right in what you are pointing out, but taking the force literally in your own hands (paws?) and threatening the community to comply (or else...) seems kinda "nazi" to me... just because you have the steem power to take some (serious?) effect in the growing economy doesnt give you the right to do so and decide over rights and wrongs on steemit...

$0.00

steemitlover786 (25) · 7 years ago

Amazing post of the day

$0.00

jatinkanojia87 (44) · 7 years ago

Amazing

$0.00

kpsfhunmuha (32) · 7 years ago

very interesting reviews. thank you

$0.00

fatema (43) · 7 years ago

hey @grumpycat !! good job .......!!

$0.00

buildawhale (74) · 7 years ago

This post has received a 21.65 % upvote from @buildawhale thanks to: @checkthisout. Send at least 1 SBD to @buildawhale with a post link in the memo field for a portion of the next vote.

To support our daily curation initiative, please vote on my owner, @themarkymark, as a Steem Witness

$0.00

cryptotaxadvisor (32) · 7 years ago

How do I get some of that Grumpy Cat coin? I am in an alt coin frenzy man! Where I gotta go? Coinbase, Polinex, Binance?

$0.00

yeminthu (28) · 7 years ago

Thank you @yeminthu

$0.00

yulissari (44) · 7 years ago

Bagus sekali

$0.00

vindy (57) · 7 years ago

Enough is enough.

$0.00

hassansharif (42) · 7 years ago

Grumpy cat can never be wrong 😢😢
I love you
Lol

$0.00

anus2199 (37) · 7 years ago

i love ur post thanks buddy

$0.00

gailbelga (64) · 7 years ago (edited)

Just a question, how about those comments that were upvoted because these were really good, logical, helpful, and did not paid to be upvoted? :)

In line with what you said, I agree. People tend to get a portion of rewards because of this vote-buying scheme. I feel bad for the new and talented writers here on steemit who do not get recognized.

I feel shitty recalling I upvote my post but never had I imagined upvoting my comments. hmmm

$0.00

aemkar (51) · 7 years ago

In random order my account needs to be marked in the best post to get the most votes

$0.00

biggy345 (47) · 7 years ago

In steemit its all about the upvotes .im just trying to be real.most of us just want to be whales .or atleast get cash out of it .i have to admit steemit is hard .getting to a point where the returns on investment will match up is so far away .for me so far . @grumpycat i support but anyway theres little to do .flagging i dont think will do much

$0.00

fazlul (49) · 7 years ago

But I've been waiting 3 days for upvote from @sneaky-ninja and from @buildawhale but I did not get anything from them ,,, kalo @sneaky-ninja is not at upvote at all and only in return my half steem half that dibawA where I do not know ... I hope that who manage this please be responsible for this happening ... And I hope to the owner account @sneaky-ninja and @buildawhale if you do not want to upvote have me please return my money ... so

$0.00

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

3 days? This is the only transaction to @buildawhale and it was 22 hours ago. Our minimum bid is 1 SBD.

$0.00

fazlul (49) · 7 years ago

Oce... Thanks

$0.00

michaeldavid (65) · 7 years ago

Bro, first of all, it would do you some good to actually read some of the posts of the bots you are so unhappy with and specifically their rules. Second, check your wallet. You made one bid for @sneaky-ninja for .5 steem. Sneaky Ninja does not accept steem (Clearly stated in his posts) and immediately refunded your steem to you...

2 days ago Transfer 0.500 STEEM to fazlul Refund for invalid bid: 0.500 STEEM - Bids in STEEM are not accepted.

Also, if you try to contact @sneaky-ninja through wallet you will not get a response and instead only get your .001 returned to you as an invalid bid.

If you have an issue with a bid leave a comment for @sneaky-ninja or @michaeldavid with the url of the post in question (also clearly stated in his posts).

Spend some time reading bot rules and posts so this issue does not happen again. :)

$0.00

fazlul (49) · 7 years ago

Yeah that's why I ordered my money back broo ... And about that post that I send where I remember again and when I see not seen again ,, in 2 days ... Anyway I do not want to know @sneaky-ninja should return my money if not refunded then I will report everything to optian ... Please see yourself on my account and I only use @esteemapp made by @ good-karma .. Please refund my money and if not back please upvote balek my post which is equivalent the money i send ..

$0.00

michaeldavid (65) · 7 years ago

6 days ago Transfer 0.500 STEEM to fazlul Refund for invalid bid: 0.500 STEEM - Bids in STEEM are not accepted.
6 days ago Receive 0.500 STEEM from fazlul https://steemit.com/color-challenge/@fazlul/color-challenge-flowers-my-park-90046bbf4c15c

Refunded immediately... just like i said

$0.00

michaeldavid (65) · 7 years ago

Here it is on your wallet:

6 days ago Receive 0.500 STEEM from sneaky-ninja Refund for invalid bid: 0.500 STEEM - Bids in STEEM are not accepted.
6 days ago Transfer 0.500 STEEM to sneaky-ninja https://steemit.com/color-challenge/@fazlul/color-challenge-flowers-my-park-90046bbf4c15c

$0.00

fazlul (49) · 7 years ago

Twice I send ... It's bro but once that is returned ... See alone bro

$0.00

guarddog (53) · 7 years ago

I don't understand. Buying and selling votes? Guess I need to spend more time here to see what is going on.

$0.00

steemitboard (66) · 7 years ago

Congratulations @grumpycat! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You got a First Vote
Award for the number of upvotes received

Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honor on SteemitBoard.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here

If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP

By upvoting this notification, you can help all Steemit users. Learn how here!

$0.00

jazminmillion (71) · 7 years ago (edited)

lol

$0.13

doktormuslem (61) · 7 years ago

Are you seriously???
I can't understand your posted.

$0.00

contentking (60) · 7 years ago

I didn't even know you could buy votes. I know there are resteem services, but never heard of buying votes. I'm not sure how that could even work. Maybe it's better that I never heard of it. I've paid for resteems before, but not upvotes.

$0.00

kofibeatz (52) · 7 years ago

hot shit. thanks @grumpycat

$0.00

itwithsm (67) · 7 years ago

Well I think this a bad news for us... On steemit every whale gets the post flying high to the roof to reach the trending posts... A minnow just goes on waiting for the posts to be upvoted by some whales... All these bots are just helping minnows to grow up... If someone have got a vote on a spam post or a post without a worth that post should be flagged... But a minnow posting a good and original one should be supported I guess... and the minnows have only one way to get their posts go high and if a worthless post is going high other whales are present here to flag it or down vote... Flagging and down voting using a bot is not a good idea... Why you people are making it way too difficult for minnows to grow??? Why you don't want minnows to grow and generate good content??

$0.00

networker5 (56) · 7 years ago

exactly

$0.00

vadimvinnichuk (46) · 7 years ago

$0.00

tyner (26) · 7 years ago

I think the idea that we will ever be able to remove all illegal vote buying is pretty far-fetched, as its something we still see on larger platforms like Instagram. I do agree that when we have such a clear incentivised system like Steem we have way too many bots and upvote buying, so I think if we all went a bit on the defensive like @grumpycat is doing we'll be able to better combat the issue.
I acknowledge that many people think the ability to buy votes allows smaller users to gain power more quickly and is, therefore, a good thing. I disagree; I think the current method of 'Delegated' Steem power is sufficient to get small users into the game with some time. After all, if it is too easy to hit the top of the market then we have a serious competition issue, which I think is really manifesting itself in the overwhelming amount of shitposts and nonsense comments on a lot of popular posts.

$0.00

sulaisteem (46) · 7 years ago

I really like your post

$0.00

upme (49) · 7 years ago

You got a 18.33% upvote from @upme requested by: @checkthisout.
Send at least 1.5 SBD to @upme with a post link in the memo field to receive upvote next round.
To support our activity, please vote for my master @suggeelson, as a STEEM Witness

$0.00

jazminmillion (71) · 7 years ago

So you flag me for using this bot but you use it?

You are so butt hurt, ouch.

$24.81

parlo (46) · 7 years ago

very nice i like

$0.00

babuplrk (43) · 7 years ago (edited)

A lot of restricted rules may harmful for this community like flagging by Auto Bot. There is so many option to solve this problem. I have an Idea for an example. You can lock all post after 3.5 days so people can't vote. As a programmer I can say, My idea can be a way to solve. Just you need to write few program. I expect reply of both people who agree with my idea and who don't agree with exact cause. Regards, @babuplrk

$0.00

zoef (64) · 7 years ago (edited)

I believe the reason is so people can not drain the pool when there posts are hidden from trending and hot. Wich is a good thing. But please explain in your main post what the reason is.

$0.00

konkan (28) · 7 years ago

Steemit is meant to be a place for posting high quality posts, interesting for reading. Please don`t make it like facebook, buy/sell fake likes(upvotes)

$0.00

danielwong (67) · 7 years ago

Painful to watch these fights

$0.00

umairarshad (33) · 7 years ago

But I have a question.. if someone put struggle and efforts on his\her post and having not too much flowers then is there any platform to promote or share his post for appreciation .?

$0.00

nickdavison (54) · 7 years ago (edited)

@grumpycat why three and a half days? Is there some relevance with that duration and how payouts are calculated?

Also I think most of the voting bots are using either the Dr Otto script by @inertia or the Post Promoter script by @yabapmatt, so most vote auction bots would be updated by git push deployments authored by those guys. (You should probably tag them in the post body.)

Edit: Post Promoter already has a configurable max post age option, not sure about Dr Otto.

$0.00

taminsteem (50) · 7 years ago

amazing, greetings know ya.upvote me too

$0.00