Are we made fun of by @Freedom ?

lays (67) · 7 years ago

@transisto i am just surprised to see i am mentioned in this post and sad to know i buy upvote from elizebeth302 only on my post to boost my bost what terms i broke ?please tell me i daily doing one post and selling all my votes and helping my friends and this act let me recover my fees daily for freedom i did nothing wrong and my account does not belong to any other delegation i have only 1 account the other accounts are my friends i can give their facebook link this is not good for blaming someone if they are exchanging votes?

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cryptocowgirl (45) · 7 years ago

I believe the idea behind Steemit is to vote on quality content and publishers for the betterment of the community, not game the system collectively. No hard feelings. Just my thoughts.

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katharsisdrill (71) · 7 years ago

And I believe you are right @cryptocowgirl !

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mother2chicks (61) · 7 years ago

Same here. Thought the same thing.

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teamsteem (74) · 7 years ago

Do you know who owns @freedom? How did you get to buy vote from @freedom?

dhimanyog (34) · 7 years ago

I am new to Steemit, but just want to know whether it's good to buy vote? Can we trust anyone? I don't think that it's a good idea to buy votes.

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plushzilla (55) · 7 years ago

@dhimanyog - many of the rules that apply in real life apply to steemit, such as being nice to other people and also 'buyers beware' when it comes to any transactions. I guess the answer to whether buying votes is a good idea or not can be answered by whether it is something that you would want the majority of the people to be doing here...

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massivevibration (56) · 7 years ago

Good question!!!

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hassanabid (73) · 7 years ago

and everyone who get delegations are paying for it so they need to recover something from selfupvotes ! otherwise what will be the profit of taking sp ? Indeed when some of the well known got that SP they were enjoying because they got SP in low price and now blamming others !

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lays (67) · 7 years ago

I do not know whats wrong with them we belong to poor family and freedom gives us opportunity if they are against selling votes then why markymark and nextgencrypto selling their whales if they are against self click they should contact to steem team to Eng self voting option we have to pay daily fees to freedom and we are trying to pay it with some selling and some with own pocket if they think we should not sell vote they pay our fees for delegation we wont do it again

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dtbahoney (42) · 7 years ago

You should put some commas in your paragraph there.

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abhishek77 (53) · 7 years ago

Yes bro u r right

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thatsweeneyguy (61) · 7 years ago

Those who pay for delegations just to profit are gaming the system. The "spirit" of the platform, as explained by the original steem whitepaper, speaks of creating algorithms that would prevent gaming the system.

When buying SP, you're kind of expected to use it altruistically. It's not so YOU can earn more money, it's so you can GIVE more money, by voting on content that you deem valuable.

There's a big misunderstanding about the idea of "there are no rules here". Just because the system doesn't prevent one from doing something, doesn't make it any less rude.

And yes, self-upvoting by whales is a huge problem too, but that's not what this post is about.

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bebobaloch (55) · 7 years ago

looks like people are jealous because freedom has undelegated there so called VIP BUSINESS OF SELLING UPVOTES and now they dont want others to do it ! lol ! now they will downvote as there is no freedom of speech here !

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hassanabid (73) · 7 years ago

Agree if there is no vote selling then first the one who was using since 5 to 6 months should get punished and they wont get punished because they are just blamming others !

beanz (68) · 7 years ago

That would be randowhale who belongs to the evangelist going around flagging everybody who uses the services that competed with his own.

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hassanabid (73) · 7 years ago

agreed ! they will flag you and me for speaking the truth

fredrikaa (70) · 7 years ago

punctuation?

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lavanyalakshman (75) · 7 years ago

Your telling is really good .but some one said this is cheating but i am agree with you

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tusharvasave (52) · 7 years ago (edited)

@lays you are right. Every stemian have freedom to sell or buy votes and upvote theirs own post or similar account. because if more than one account that is not spam. They want to make more work. blaming others it is not good. This is my personal thoughts. i do not want to heart anyone.

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https://steemit.com/steemit/@paulag/unmasking-freedom-what-the-data-can-tell-us-steemit-business-intelligence

paulag (73) · 7 years ago

This is very interesting @transisto. I did a post the other day on @freedom, also looking at the data, but in a very different way.

I had noticed that @freedom had removed delegation to paid upvote services, but I did not look at how delegation was being use by the new people freedom delegated too. I noticed that @spaminator and utopian-io were on the list, which are worthy projects.

You might be interested in having a read of my post

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Removed from two, added to another. Then added to a lot of spammers.

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scipio (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

@utopian-IO is very worthy, not a single self-upvote, and the bot's code even penalizes posts promoted via booster bots for self-upvoting purposes.

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abh12345 (76) · 7 years ago

I've been watching but not posting about the re-delegation, because I wanted a slice for myself - although not to self vote or offer a pay for vote service i should add!

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lukestokes (75) · 7 years ago

Great detective work.

The trick is coming to consensus and agreement on what should be done about it. There are many different opinions on the motivational psychology and game theory aspects in play here, and it's not at all clear what the most ideal system is. Things will always be exploited, and those who care will always have to stay ahead of the arms race to do something about it.

There was once an idea (which got rejected) to allow some users to negate other users. Maybe we need something like this to stop abuse? Maybe a downvote bot we can easily use and more readily-accessible reports about payouts on posts with low view counts?

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transisto (74) · 7 years ago

Yes, more open access for whales to countering bots would go a long way. It's one thing to be expensing SP to fight abuse it's another to spend so much time clicking little flags manually. @personz has done something great but it's still not convenient enough for non-tech savvy people to use.

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teamsteem (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

So it turn out that @freedom might be more about money than freedom after all and thus something like @free-doom might have been more appropriate. Interestingly a lot of clues seems to point to Steemit Inc as being the possible owner of @freedom, not that these clues prove this but strongly suggest so.

I had noticed @freedom delegating his SP to some vote sellers earlier this week. I'd say this is a huge issue.

I was in favor of Dan's idea from the very beginning and I'm still am.

I also think that a none linear reward curve would benefit Steem. It might seems conterintuitive to think that none linear reward could help on this matter but in the long run I think it would.

None linear reward incentives people not to split their votes and SP. It also create a strong incentive for people not to sell their Steem. The price of Steem should in theory increase as the number of users increase and even more so if reward curve is greater than linear.

All of this incentivize people to empower one another more directly with votes creating more meaningful connections overtime as opposed to the current situation where people are incentivize to lease their SP as much as possible.

Dan has shared very valuable insights on the subject in his post "Evil Whales", more precisely under the title "The value of Consensus" and "Curation Reward".

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jaki01 (74) · 7 years ago

I also think that a none linear reward curve would benefit Steem.

Maybe a sigmoid function as suggested by @twinner might be interesting as it would make self-upvotes less attractive but at the same time would prevent the incredible high rewards for some trending posts which resulted from the n^2 curve.

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teknow (43) · 7 years ago

Yeah I was looking into that @freedom account a week or so ago and I agree with you. It must be an in-house owned account. If not directly owned by the high ups it was given access to exist and feed from the beginning by the high ups.

SMTs have no hope of ever becoming mainstream when this crap exists. What do they think, that people are going to blindly throw money in and not exercise due diligence. Some might yeah... but a fool and their money are easily parted.

Anyone or any entity looking to invest in steem will not proceed when there are issues such as these. The players that do proceed will simply follow the same greed routine. Thus destroy the system even more. Ned needs a good rubber chicken slap to the face.. Wake the fuck up @ned.

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teamsteem (74) · 7 years ago

First I advocate against the use of violence whenever possible even of the written form thus my opposition to any slap to anyone at this point.

I didn't say @freedom was owned by Steemit Inc but I tend to think so for the reasons mentions in @paulag's post.

The fact that the Steem are concentrated into the hands a small group of people is known and must be consider by all investors. Highly concentrated coins are a negative point when investing but other positive point can make up. Current investors who think this Steem is too risky are selling.

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teknow (43) · 7 years ago

Come on man don't read so deep into that there. I do not advocate violence either, and what I said was more figuratively. Which is why I added the 'rubber chicken' as I was aware that just saying "ned needs a slap to the face" IS harsh in words, even if used figuratively.

It's baffling how they let these things slide. There is clear corruption. If the exploits only exist at the member level, it's bad and needs fixing. If there is a direct link to Steem employees and founders, then... something like that will bring the house down eventually.

teamsteem (74) · 7 years ago

I mostly agree to what you said.

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dtbahoney (42) · 7 years ago

It's hyperbole, dog.

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battleaxe (69) · 7 years ago

HardF***k 19 , yeah that really did a lot of good right?
Interesting connections @teamsteem
a lot of people talk off the cuff and don't seem to realize that much like "The WIzard of Oz" there is a lot of bullshit behind the curtains

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sircork (64) · 7 years ago

Hardfork 19 has made a huge mess in my opinion. It was better before it, but i wasn't as savvy back then, so I could be wrong. Sure seems like the "issues" have escalated to subscriptions since then though.

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intelliguy (68) · 7 years ago

I'm thinking communicating better with our whales from Steemit, Inc. would be best.

Something like how when you get a comment reply, and it notifies you....

Once or twice a month, Steemit, Inc could put an alert on their GUI which needs to be read, which talks about "issues" such as this, and makes recommendations.

Socially, we're all confused on what is right and wrong. It's easy to find the obvious wrongs, but some of these services which are well intentioned do abuse the system.

For instance, maybe we need a hardfork which says, steem power delegation can't be used to upvote the same user more than once per 24 hour period. That would slow down some of the self-upvotes, and upvotes of your "other" accounts.

Do either of those resound as possible short term solutions?

The reason why this exists, is that it's a difficult problem. sigh.

steemreports (64) · 7 years ago

Your proposed hardfork sounds interesting, but it sounds difficult to implement unfortunately.

intelliguy (68) · 7 years ago

I just made a comment over on the latest @steemitblog posting asking about the 2018 roadmap. If there is a way for every user to only self-upvote themselves or any account no more than 10 times per 7 day period that would work well.

...but I know exactly what you're saying. It would involve expanding the chain to constantly save and retrieve this data.

The only time it becomes important, is during the payout of a post or comment to do the calculation so you could nullify the votes automagically by the payout algorithm.

Perhaps this could be done by a huge account, like @ned with a bot which looks at posts "after no more votes are allowed" before payout and then does this research and adjustment.

Of course though, this is decentralized. A round table discussion by developers is necessary though to see if we could solve this in any number of different ways.

Thanks for your comment, you're right. What sounds easy, rarely is... when it comes to the decentralized and autonomous nature of the chain itself.

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revo (60) · 7 years ago

Banning or reducing self-upvotes sounds reasonable until you realise that an account can just create sockpuppets and upvote by proxy. Of course, with good auditing you can discover these voting rings, but it does take someone to do it in the first place. I'm keen on creating a bot that identifies this sort of stuff algorithmically and then acts on its findings.

sircork (64) · 7 years ago

You know about @Patrice and @steemcleaners, right? It has done exactly that for months and months. She busts her ass to find and defeat these voting rings.

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revo (60) · 7 years ago

I'm only vaguely aware of them. I'm looking to automate the whole process. The bot identifies vote rings via an algorithm and then down votes them.

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snowflake (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

Restrictions such as this will always be circumvent in some way or another. You can't get something out of someone by making roadblocks.
To change someone's behaviour you have to make the other legit options more attractive.

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brian-rhodes (66) · 7 years ago

I'm sorry but I disagree. In the wider context maybe. But here we're talking about a small number of people whose behaviour probably won't change under any circumstances - more attractive alternatives or otherwise. We're stuck with them until they cash out, like it or not. But the least we can do is call them out continually for their counter-productive behaviour - a big thank you to @transisto for laying it out so clearly. I would like to think the whales, including Steemit.com, who are most vested in the platform, might take the lead here with those of us who believe this matters in support.

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snowflake (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

@freedom is effectively selling his votes, just like the dozens of bot vote selling scheme on steemit, he does it in a less conventional way which is why its more controversial but all the bots and people using them are doing the exact same thing so it's not a small number of people, it's a large percentage. Wait until we reach the mainstream, the situation with abusers is only going to get worse.

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intelliguy (68) · 7 years ago

Have any ideas for other "legit options" ? I have no ideas.

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snowflake (65) · 7 years ago

The other legit option is to curate properly, unfortunately doing this will yield very little reward..increasing curation rewards would be a good start.

netuoso (70) · 7 years ago

So essentially an abuser has to create 10 accounts (total 60SP or about $270 delegated SP and 2SP) then just spread votes amongst them.

If they have the knowledge to abuse the delegation system then they have this knowledge already.

A hard fork is not always the answer. At least not one that is trivially circumvented by the bad actors

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intelliguy (68) · 7 years ago

It would definitely curb the "manual" abuser, who has 3 to 5 accounts and they manually click upvotes

littleboy (72) · 7 years ago (edited)

What about a discord chat where users can post plagiarism/low quality posts/socs > mods will review and delete false reports and give a comment on the post > whales downvote the post > if mods made a mistake then user will appeal in the chat > higher mods will check it

What do you think? We can also make bots to route whale downvotes. I mean, discord bots.

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donkeypong (75) · 7 years ago

What @transisto described above does not involve plagiarism. We have SteemCleaners handling that well already and they have channels where you can file reports. That hasn't been the main area of abuse for a long time now, largely because there is community consensus that something like SC is needed and worthy of support. What he's talking about in this post is spamming and sockpuppetry, which have been much harder to address. There's never been any clear consensus about whether/where to draw a line on the latter.

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lukestokes (75) · 7 years ago

You nailed it exactly with this:

There's never been any clear consensus about whether/where to draw a line on the latter.

Without a clear consensus, it's not possible to program blockchain-level solutions or to even build bot-solutions. In many ways, we also have to consider cultural differences in opinion on what constitutes abuse, spam, and "valuable" comments and posts. There's a lot to figure out with regards to clear community-driven norms which stake holders and new users alike will support.

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demotruk (69) · 7 years ago

We don't have to define what is or isn't abuse to get a fix into the blockchain. We can have solutions that make it easier to counter abuse while still allowing it to be 100% down to subjective stakeholder opinion.

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littleboy (72) · 7 years ago

Consensus can't be built if we don't talk about it. Would join a discord chat for whales and senior users if I made one?

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brian-rhodes (66) · 7 years ago

Nicely said. Maybe it's time to draw the line.

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inquiringtimes (64) · 7 years ago

we need to have a community forum to discuss these matters, and we need consensus. all of the major players need to come to an agreement, not that we all need to agree about what we believe, but we all need to come to an agreement about how to proceed, as a community!

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michaeldavid (65) · 7 years ago

two thumbs up

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littleboy (72) · 7 years ago (edited)

I updated the comment. And all plagiarists can't be handled by SC. I recently outed one with 200$ payout, a lot of that from your SP and Neds SP.

Before that, I outed another with 70 per post. There is also a zerohedge copy pasta account that keeps on doing what it does best. It gets huge payouts.

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demotruk (69) · 7 years ago

It needs to be done on a protocol level, not bots. Bots just consume bandwidth, and it's an endless arms race with the advantage to abusers. Having negation at the protocol level reduces the cost of policing while still allowing accountability for those who engage in policing.

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brian-rhodes (66) · 7 years ago

Another good suggestion!

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anyx (69) · 7 years ago

an endless arms race with the advantage to abusers.

Nail on the head right here.

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lukestokes (75) · 7 years ago

What are your thoughts on the issue Dan created which ultimately got rejected?

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berniesanders (77) · 7 years ago

This post isn't about countering flags, dumbass...

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anyx (69) · 7 years ago (edited)

I was originally against the idea (well, to be fair, I don't think anyone had much time to fully think about the idea. It was proposed and on track to be implemented so quickly that I think the backlash against not knowing what the outcome would be, was what shot it down in the first place.)

I still think there needs to be a better way, fundamentally. Right now, regardless of implementing that design or not, it costs opportunity to fight abuse, and it leads to a tragedy of the commons (being more short term beneficial to upvote oneself rather than downvote abuse, or if that design is implemented, being more short term beneficial to keep your SP rather than lose it to cancel someone else).

The biggest problem with that design is that it assumes the targeted account only ever acts in bad faith -- you nullify ALL their actions even if some might be "good".

Sadly, I don't know a better solution. The only one I can think of to remove the opportunity cost is having separate voting power pools for upvotes and downvotes, so it doesn't "cost" to downvote (since you have, e.g., 10 downvotes and 10 upvotes per day to use).

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littleboy (72) · 7 years ago

The first thing to do is getting the whales together in a discord chat where we can talk about it. If some whales do something bad, we can just do a harkfork and separate the spammy steem into a new better steem. We would need devs for that though. If we can convince enough devs to defect then bingo, freedom's SP will be worth 10x less.

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brian-rhodes (66) · 7 years ago

Do you think that it will take such a drastic step to counter this? I agree it needs to be discussed but don't expect the whales in question to involve themselves in the discussion - at least with our knowledge.

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mattclarke (68) · 7 years ago

Back to 50/50 curation/poster rewards. Make it more lucrative to skillfully curate than to self upvote/sell votes.

revo (60) · 7 years ago

This is something that I recently posted about (creating a downvote bot to target these self-vote rings). It's on the backburner for the time being, but it's something I will eventually get going.

It's also important to keep some perspective, I think. The sums involved (i.e. proportions of the total reward pool) are tiny, as far as I can tell. It's why I shuffled my anti-vote-farming bot project down my to-do list.

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nikonmarshall (54) · 7 years ago

I completely agree with you @transisto, this platform has great potential because of the community and the basis of operation. We just need to make it that little more user friendly and have it so the bots and scammers have less power. In the literal and figurative sense.

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timcliff (73) · 7 years ago

This is a really important topic. You should consider attending this Saturday's "Steem Growth Form" to discuss it. Details here: https://steemit.com/steemitgrowthforum/@aggroed/announcement-steemit-growth-forum-saturday-november-18th-11am-nyc-time-1600-utc-held-virtually-on-mspwaves-radio-within-the

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donkeypong (75) · 7 years ago

Upvoted and thanks for introducing this item for discussion. There are pros and cons to more regulation versus maintaining the freedom (little 'f') that we have now. It's unfortunate some choose short term greed over long term health of the platform, but I also understand that SP holders want to make a return on their investment.

Hopefully, moderated communities will curb these tendencies somewhat, and maybe a higher price will encourage people to use their Steem for more active investments to develop this ecosystem, though these problems always will exist on here at some level if we let them. I agree with @lukestokes that achieving consensus on this will be difficult, but it's definitely worth discussing.

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thejohalfiles (58) · 7 years ago

As a holder of SP you are free to do what you want with your stake. If @freedom wants to delegate power to these folks thats on @freedom to decide. Your stake is your stake. If you want to allocate those rewards to others or even yourself for various reasons that choice is yours. As a stake holder in the STEEM blockchain by holding SP this earns you that right. You need to see the bigger picture here. In my opinion Steem is about much more than finding "good content" / just social media. Dont mix up Steem the blockchain and Steemit.com @transisto. Steemit.com is what needs some work with content discovery. I agree Steemit.com should update its content discovery rules. I agree with that. The trending and hot tab do need some work. With all that said, I believe this blockchain is going to really change the world brother. It has the potential to change everything, literally. The way people work, live and interact. If you watch Elon Musk we are going to be moving into a much different world in the coming years. Many will be without jobs...the concept of work I imagine will start to change. I believe we are at the front lines of something new. Time will tell.

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beanz (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

❤️
I'm very glad to see this positivity alive and well. I greatly appreciate the support you've given myself and @sirlunchthehost over the past year or so. Seriously, it keeps my spirits up when things seem to be falling apart to know that there is appreciation for our contributions and efforts to build this network. You (and @transisto too) would be very welcome to join our new discord server for the voices of the underground. We have a growing community there of critical thinkers who really want to see this network succeed.

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sirlunchthehost (71) · 7 years ago

nods

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fantastic-topics (10) · 7 years ago

good @thejohalfiles

upvote me plllllllllllllzzzzzzz :(

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tojukaka (68) · 7 years ago

wow!!!
That's some deep insight you shared about work @thejohalfiles

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theaustrianguy (72) · 7 years ago

the concept of work I imagine will start to change. I believe we are at the front lines of something new

This is true for sure.
I don't think that there will be a lot of manual work done by humans in a few decades. Dangerous jobs like firefighters are probably all done by robost - Just one example! But what will we do with all the workless?
On the other hand, we are gonna have to deal with new problems. What will those be? And how will we be able to deal with them?

As you said,

Time will tell.

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mobbs (69) · 7 years ago (edited)

My idea to solve both spam and vote buying is to encourage those like @blocktrades and @minnowbooster, even @berniesanders if he needs a new direction, to change their business model. Instead, delegate to trusted curation teams like OCD, Steemstem, steemiteducation, some of the country-based ones and so forth, who will then do the quality curating with that SP, thus boosting the minnows and reducing spam ability/incentive

To get an ROI, they could offer a premium where any user can send a small payment to prioritize viewing of their posts (but not guaranteeing an upvote). There are enough people in these teams to cover most tags and can always recruit more.

Convincing a few whales would be a far easier solution than changing the framework of steemit via hardforks and the like, and they'd still profit if done right

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cryptotash (41) · 7 years ago

I’m really glad you brought this subject to light and are exposing it . It’s not fair to the ones that are actually taking the time to research and create inspiring and educational content that me and a lot of others gain knowledge from .

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12 votes

brian-rhodes (66) · 7 years ago

What bugs the hell out of me most is the terrible message being sent out to new steemians - all that matters is the cash. No problem with these guys making money but to shit in the bed we all lay in - sad, sad indeed.

reddust (71) · 7 years ago

Us older steemians are disheartened as well, many great content creators have powered down and left.

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brian-rhodes (66) · 7 years ago

I'm thinking once we get past these growing pains, things will smooth out. But yes, it's unfortunate some have left. However, once the value of Steem begins to increase, I'm hoping they will return and that they've held onto their STEEM to share in any potential benefit that comes with a climb in STEEM value.

reddust (71) · 7 years ago

I hope so, I miss my friends @brain-rhodes, although I am trying to make new friends all the time. The people that joined steemit at the same time I did, we bonded and they feel close to my heart.

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cryptotash (41) · 7 years ago

It is Very sad , No doubt about that . It’s not a good look for the present or future of the economy , especially from the eyes of new Steemians .

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tarazkp (80) · 7 years ago

So, why do I spend so many hours creating content?

I am not sure what the solution is to this kind of behavior but something must get done sooner rather than later as it is strangling the system and suffocating anyone trying to produce something of worth.

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lucylin (67) · 7 years ago

I took a 10 day break from steemit, out of sheer negative frustrations of seeing creators get nothing for their time.

It is totally disheartening.

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brian-rhodes (66) · 7 years ago

Hang in there. The future in steem and Steemit is bright. We'll get through this. Steem is still a baby and these guys are starving it. It can be dealt with.

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brian-rhodes (66) · 7 years ago

You spend so many hours creating good content because you've embraced the essence of the platform. Good on you.

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teamsteem (74) · 7 years ago

It seems like Eli stopped using the services of Freedom or Freedom barred her from using it. It still going on though. Obviously.

@funny-gifs

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5 votes

gohba.handcrafts (66) · 7 years ago

Agree 100% mate. Steemit inc need to start stepping in to even things out again.

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reko (70) · 7 years ago

Great job shining a light on this abusive behaviour @transisto! :)

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neuromancer (51) · 7 years ago

Among the comments I exchanged with other Steemians in my first few weeks on Steemit were discussions around pre-screening of submissions at the time the user clicks Post. While this won't directly address vote abuse/farms it will reduce and make less attractive the submisssion of content that a lot of this voting happens on;

At the time of submission content should be checked and matched against a short tree of criteria with suggestions|warnings presented &/or automatic submission action|rejection, eg:

Criteria

content components (image, text, both)
length of content (char count, img count)
% match of existing content (internet/steemit), via tools similar to checkplagiarism.org & checkplagiarism.org (text), or tineye.com & images.google.com (images, 100% matches only, for obvious reasons)

Advice|Warning

[Advice] Your submission is very short, containing only X characters. Stimulating and engaging content attracts more attention, greater reward potential, and help Steemit grow into the #1 content platform!
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Sounds like a job for RegEx :P

RegEx

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sircork (64) · 7 years ago (edited)

I love the regex meme, and your ideas are not too shabby either.

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neuromancer (51) · 7 years ago

I am very fond of XKCD, and that meme is pretty good too, so's this.

There really should be some screening & mitigation done at submission time before block chain commit, right now that's occurring after the fact and the result is self evident.

Such measures are never expected to be a 100% perfect robot nanny (deference to blind faith is misplaced anyway) because they would need to be somewhat lenient and permissive to reduce false positives becoming an obstacle, but it would help mitigate some blatant plagiarism and tarpit submission of junk waffle posts while they are parsed & compared against criteria and again while the submitter considers editing and again if they choose to edit, consider:

sircork spends 37 minutes writing an article then submits it
system returns message of 13% match for URL
sircork spends 2 minutes using markdown to indicate quoted portions of text
sircork submits revised article
article written to block chain

I can spend upwards of 5-7 hours on some of my articles that require writing/testing code, cross-browser compatibility checking, fact checking, collecting & verifying info/resources, capturing images of steps/results then editing them, and finally composing in markdown. I wouldn't care if I had to spend a few minutes more at submission time. But consider:

user sees eye catching content & copies it
user pastes content into steemit & submits
user paid bot upvote army votes
repeat X number times per hour every day

The article parsing will slow this, the system response (advice/warning) will slow this, even if they ignore it and hit Continue the article may be branded with the warning comment containing URLs of matching content & receive less or no reward.

The practice becomes less profitable and enticing, it may even become a nuisance to those who practice it, the quanta of these types of submissions is reduced and more of the reward pool remains.

As stated above, such measures aren't regarded as a 100% perfect magical digital genie that will fix everything and relieve humans of custodial duties or responsibility for actions, but rather a helper tool that does what it's able to, safely within a given level of certainty and reliability and no more, that stems the flood a little, making the task more achievable.

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sircork (64) · 7 years ago

Off to utopian.io you go to submit a condenser change req!

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yabapmatt (69) · 7 years ago

I'm not a whale (yet!) and i'm a very inconsequential witness at the moment, but I very much agree with your post and the problems you've identified. I'm not sure how we go about fixing it though.

If there is a HF to change Steem's content discovery rules, what would the changes be specifically? Are there potentially other ways to address the issues without a hard fork?

I think a lot of these issues can be "fixed" by organized downvoting, but as you mentioned it will take time and effort from the existing whales which may not be possible.

Interested to see what the other whales and top witnesses think!

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taskmaster4450 (78) · 7 years ago

Interested to see what the other whales and top witnesses think!

I would say the ones actively participating on here trying to spread the wealth and make this place better concur with what @transisto wrote. On the other hand, the ones he called out and those like them, probably will be silent.

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kevinwong (76) · 7 years ago

Why can't they just hire some someone for a couple bucks per post and at least post something decent?? or easier, take part in the community? just straight up pillaging wtf..

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therealwolf (75) · 7 years ago

Makes me sick to see that. Seems like they know each other.

I actually tried to contact freedom regarding a lease for a serious project im working on. But it seems that people with broken englisch and 'please give me 100k sp i give you 50$ day' is what freedom wants.

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doelist (51) · 7 years ago

Please, who play unfair game, wait outside of the house.

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adnanrabbani (70) · 7 years ago

Well this is absolutely serious issue and we need to dealt with it on priority basis because such things drying up the rewards of deserving peoples and also hurting the steemit image, we have to create a huge flagging army which is ready all the time and immediately attack on such greediness, i think good whales have to look into this matter seriously because freedom just use only his bellyrub un-delegated sp yet and minnowbooster sp is still unused or come back to his account after 7 days and once he gets that sp he surely gives it to the bad guys hands and thus it creates even worse condition, well i have only 1k sp but i am ready to be a part of this army because we can't just sit and see bad guys drying up the reward pool and get's richer and richer every day and great writers and authors who are deserving candidates and also doing legitimate and great work just earn some bucks after spending hours and hours on creating a quality post.

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macksby (73) · 7 years ago

Excellent post... Steemit has become a not very friendly place for people spending time creating quality content, when they see these ridiculous posts getting such rewards. Thanks for bringing this to the forefront, if not dealt with Steemit will be filled with nothing but these nonsense posts. Cheers!

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taskmaster4450 (78) · 7 years ago

I saw a whale get $80 for saying Good Night Steemit.

As for your point about nothing but garbage posts ending up on here, I agree totally. People often write from the heart and with passion. However, when lured to a site like this with compensation, if that does not come, people will leave. It really is that simple. In the end, blogger and facebook would win out over steemit all other things being equal.

shonyishere (56) · 7 years ago

I am new here at Steemit, one thing i have noticed is that unless you have a lot of followers and if you haven't purchased power, you will go unnoticed and the articles you write will go unnoticed as well.
And yes, there are a lot of people who uses some sort of bots and gets like 40 plus upvotes with less than 10 views for their posts, i don't get it i mean is this how steemit is headed to create a quality content community?

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sircork (64) · 7 years ago

Join communities, build a network. You have to make friends here to get anywhere, and there are dozens of great communities to choose from. If you don't go meet people, people will indeed not realize you exist.

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talltim (57) · 7 years ago

Just another brick in the wall of failure.

Incentivizing people to become power users, and then not requiring any further contribution back to the community at large creates static power networks that don't do anyone any good.

Unless you're in the "club" of course.

Sounds like any power structure ever attempted across the planet, and they aren't that stable either. Steemit is doomed unless there are changes to this.

Otherwise it will just be a bunch of top-tier users voting for each other, and bots all the way down. Who needs humans when you just want to scrape another buck off of gaming the system.

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jsantana (70) · 7 years ago (edited)

Vesting of 50 K SP to spammers, sweetsj posts always on the trending page, "whale club", voting buying projects and other arbitrariness are making this environment increasingly unbearable.

dreemit (71) · 7 years ago

It's truly a relief to read this post from you. @personz sent me here to check this out after reading my post- he said he's working on some curating tools that will hopefully provide an alternative to vote buying, which I am definitely interested in. I suggested in my post that people 'peacefully protest' by refusing to vote on those who are buying votes.

I absolutely love @steemreports. I went from 9% self-upvotes with 60 outgoing votes a couple of weeks ago to a 6% self-upvote with 80 outgoing votes this past week just from monitoring myself with their tools. Thanks to my lovely, hilarious friend @meesterboom who gave me the link in chat.

It's still not enough outgoing votes, but it's an improvement.

My husband is investing in steem in the next few months, and by spring my hope is to start a curation guild with a group of trusted friends. On our own we're currently worth between 1-3 dollars at a full vote- not substantial- but if I get enough of us on board it could definitely be valuable. And perhaps inspire others like us to do the same..anything that veers the platform off the track it's currently on.

globalvanguard (43) · 7 years ago

While I agree that such behavior is bad, this is a free market and @freedom can do with his SP whatever he wants. It's basically none of your business. No matter how the rewards system works, there will always be a small percentage of bad actors.

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michelle.gent (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

@transisto I'm wondering why you've decided to downvote two of my posts please?

Post1

Post2

These are both my own works - Post 1 is being written and posted directly onto Steemit.com as I write it.

If there's a reason that you've flagged my posts, I wonder if you'd at least let me know what it is so I can either amend the posts or avoid being flagged in future?

Added by Edit

Ah, I have 11 (eleven) posts flagged for making 'too much' - in other words, my work just isn't good enough for this platform.

Thanks for that. I could go off on a rant about your opinion being one of a very few that think what I do is worthless but I'm not going to. You're entitled to your opinion and even though I happen to disagree, I'm not in a position to make that disagreement count because I haven't been raking in rewards high enough to have made a massive difference.

My work is all original and a lot of people enjoy reading it - as well as the tips and advice I've given and the new members I've introduced over the time I've been here.

OK, I can take a hint.

Powerdown started.

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penguinpablo (75) · 7 years ago

I think the main cause of the problem is that self voting or selling votes gives a better ROI than curating. If we change the author/curator share to 50%/50% curating could become more profitable then self voting.

@jesta proposed to make the reward distribution configurable here. Sounds like a great idea.

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uwelang (74) · 7 years ago

Not surprised such scam shit happens here - I am doing something wrong. Another Reason to Get Rid of the Power Delegation Feature

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arx27 (51) · 7 years ago

Vow this is a second article what I learn today. What is up in Steemit?? Is it true, who has money doing what he wants? Amazing....no rules.

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theodorelib (52) · 7 years ago

Nerf-self-voting.

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taskmaster4450 (78) · 7 years ago

100% upvote on this one....you really took the time to nail it.

Thank you for standing up for the rest of us. It is one thing when newer people complain, or those who do not contribute too much. However, it is something different when one with a lot of SP stands up and calls out others on the same level.

@transisto, you are one of the good whales on here. Over the past couple months, I have seen your votes around....isnt that is what is suppose to happen. I know there are a number of whales working hard to make this a better place. That said, sadly, you are in the minority.

We all know that steem is going to be a very hot blockchain. Personally, I am not worried at all about steem and the price in the future. It will explode based upon what I already have seen. That said, steemit might be an app destined for the dust bin.

When the "rich" want to play games, others tune out. Again, I know this isnt all whales, yet with the voting power that a whale has, even a 10% vote on someone with <50 rep would make them very happy.

The foundation for greatness is here...however, do people screw it up with greed? That is the billion dollar question. There are plenty of other ways to get involved with this blockchain even if steemit is deemed to not be it....with the other apps out there and more being developed, the path to content creation is there.

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bitgeek (62) · 7 years ago

Congratulations @transisto, 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 27 and the total pending payments to posts in these categories was $646.48. To see the full list of highest paid posts across all accounts categories, click here.

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imlikett (56) · 7 years ago

Maybe I don't fully understand, as I am new to steemit, but this always presented itself as problem to me from the get go.
Correct me if I am wrong, as I don't have a firm grasp:
Steemit system is BASED on monetary gain. Those with more monetary value, have more power within the system. To me this just makes the steemit environment and instant late-stage-capitalism/trickle-down-economics scheme. People with wealth get richer, and barely anything trickles down to the rest of us. On top of that, like late stage, it just pins everyone against each other. Every one is in it to become one of the top 10%, IE not share their wealth. I mean, that's sorta the idea that I got from all of it.
Now I am not saying the above is not a problem, but you can also see it spawn a counter-culture of "oh well I am not getting votes, this is the obvious reason, I SPEND HOURS making content." I mean let's be real, if you are spending hours on content with no results, you can't just instantly blame the system. Maybe your content isn't good enough, or people just don't find it interesting? So you just get instagram post envy with people reporting every one higher then them, looking for reasons to bring them down.
It seems a social issue, more than just whale corruption.

Just my thoughts, and like I said, I don't really have a firm grasp on things, so any insight would help.

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steemreports (64) · 7 years ago (edited)

Perhaps a hardfork which changes the formula for rewards to include some kind of monthly/weekly gradated bonus for 'good behaviour' might help. Of course, coming to a consensus on the definition of this would be a challenge, but it could include metrics describing how well your votes/flags are dispersed (spread of accounts, account reputations, vests, etc.), and how many flags you sacrifice your voting power to do for example.

Maybe we could even use machine learning to establish the ways 'good accounts' comment/vote, and score all accounts for the reward share on that basis. I might be getting into fantasy land here though! :)

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hanen (64) · 7 years ago

All we need here is Steemit Police and CIA departments :)
Or what you think guys!

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songsina (7) · 7 years ago

Good

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abdulwazed (32) · 7 years ago

great post

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baki87 (40) · 7 years ago

Totally agree nice post

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fedesox (64) · 7 years ago

Steem concept is genious, unfortunately for some people the main reason of posting on steemit is to make money but when they face reality and they see you need more to achieve a certain amount of rewards they give up on the site, this is one of the main reasons why steemit struggle in taking off, we are still in beta though so a lot of work will be done.

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ballinconscious (65) · 7 years ago

Yeah this is definitely a problem. It seems like steemit updates/hardfork are only helping to promote this more and more. This was one of the reasons why my posting became inconsistent and I stopped for a long while; I would put work in making a post and then seeing people who don't getting extremely high rewards. Definitely encourages vote buying when a person who is creating good work feels undervalued.

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timotiejus (17) · 7 years ago

I'm trying not to be like that spammer :/

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asbear (68) · 7 years ago

thanks for the detective work. resteemed for the Korean community.

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abh12345 (76) · 7 years ago

Thanks for raising this. Its a shite state of affairs.

I've recently sent a memo to a few whales detailing this proposal
https://steemit.com/steemit/@abh12345/steemit-give-me-your-steem-power-and-i-will-prove-to-you-i-have-used-it-wisely (out of date post)

But with these memos, there is not a hope for my project.

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howtostartablog (65) · 7 years ago

This is crazy man. Resteemed.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Thanks for bringing more visibility to this.

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farhannaqvi7 (57) · 7 years ago

LOL these scammer cry after seeing this and i am also very irritate for those account who always beg

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cloudspyder (59) · 7 years ago

Maybe the blockchain need another fork but for what change. Need to evaluate it and

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godfatherofsalsa (45) · 7 years ago

interesting

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jamessmith0 (53) · 7 years ago

Actually they are not at fault they are poor and trying to fill the fees of daily and upvoting to help recover freedom fees it does not scence any scam ?

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gniksivart (67) · 7 years ago

This is what's so beautiful about this public system. Those who try to game the system will eventually be caught and dealt with in some form or fashion.

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fishyculture (60) · 7 years ago

I cannot claim I fully understand the problem or have any helpful suggestions for solving it, but I am VERY glad to see people with some clout addressing it.

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daydreams4rock (63) · 7 years ago

wow- i am so upset that people abuse this platform and am grateful for you for explaining the scam -- anyway i hadn't met you before so i follow and upvote and hope we will become friends in time -rock on -David

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funkit (60) · 7 years ago

We cannot count on witnesses that game the system. Vote them out.

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lemouth (72) · 7 years ago

Just want to say a single word (sound?): pffff.... I am happy some people still care in such things!

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arcange (73) · 7 years ago

Congratulations @transisto!
Your post was mentioned in the hit parade in the following categories:

Comments - Ranked 7 with 128 comments
Pending payout - Ranked 9 with $ 125,58

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strugglingdiy (50) · 7 years ago

I agree. There has to be some kind of regulator in order for steemit to really work or else it will just fizzle away.

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suggeelson (64) · 7 years ago

This is bad, but question is: why @freedom give this delegation i admire him to give delegation in @utiopian-io, @buildawhale and other trust members or organizations not to random people who want to profit and abuse the system.

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sircork (64) · 7 years ago

The why is because it's automated and they don't care who sends them cash for a "loan" when they stand to only profit and never actually spend any money to do it.

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mustaphaaoufi (58) · 7 years ago

Day by day, our talent, creativity and high-mindedness are shown.
Allow me dear brother ....... To raise the hat respect and appreciation to you for what you bear the thought of yoke and insight into your next new.
My love and appreciation for you ..

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cryptocowgirl (45) · 7 years ago

YES. Good post! I'm new to Steemit but have already noticed system gaming and unbalanced rules resulting in highly promoted content that isn't great. I imagine things WILL change (they'll have to or the community will bail/revolt) in due time. I've noticed that gamers, bad actors, and system manipulators are often the first on the scene to any opportunity that involves rewards (they're like "new tech vultures"). We just have to deal with them the best we can, for now. Patience! :)

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basicstoliving (58) · 7 years ago

I have been wondering about this for a while. I am just a minnow but here is my opinion. With services delegated or should say selling SP to people, it will not really ever get any better. I have been on Steemit for 7 months or so and work hard at my posts and always try to curate every day. I lots of people that work hard on the posts they put up, pictures and lots of text. Then to see a single sentence post make one hundred dollars or more, it is very discouraging. Hope the whales get the idea from this post and really wake up.

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aeorsyn (26) · 7 years ago

Yuck, this is rather off-putting.

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kenhudoy (61) · 7 years ago

@transisto
very nice post..steemit is slow on tackling this serious issue but the community headed by good whales and witnesses should take this up...thanks for sharing

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liliana.duarte (68) · 7 years ago

I can't believe we arrived at this point!! This is disgusting. Whales shouldn't be able to rely their SP to people who doesn't proof their quality work on Steemit (writing or curating).

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brian-rhodes (66) · 7 years ago

Thank you. Very enlightening post. Now in your opinion, where do we go from here?

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tanata (69) · 7 years ago

Maybe it's worth to cancel the voting for the authors own posts? Least

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frankbacon (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

"The few good whales are tired of spending SP/money to make up for a broken system and the users are tired of operating within an unfair system. Let's not rely on Steemit Inc. for a fork, they seems fully focused on communities and SMT at the moment."

Well said! However, StINC needs to address and deal with this issue!

I'm sick of EVERYONE who defends the Gang that built this network and GAVE themselves a HUGE, Whopping share of wealth right out of the gate. StINC started this... StINC should fix it.

If they don't, then anything the "Community" comes up with as a solution will likely just get paved over in the next F%&King event.

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natureofbeing (69) · 7 years ago

thanks this is very illuminating!

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alfi1212 (40) · 7 years ago

Important information,it will be helpful for me in future, thank you.

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coincheckup (6) · 7 years ago

Good article.

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contribution (51) · 7 years ago

I've been on the platform for only 1 day now and I've already understood that here it's not the quality of the articles that prevails but rather the relationships we have with the other Steemians.

I discovered a bug on Steemit which shocked me completely and made it possible to spam the Steem blockchain, a fix has already been proposed by a Steemians and I am very happy about it.

But nobody was interested in my discovery and yet it concerns all Steemit account holders. After 12h my article is worth only a few cents while other completely uninteresting article earns several dollars in a few seconds.

I wonder if this kind of practice encourages the contribution of newcomers like me, ok we have to be patient, but my time is not worth a few cents I'm sorry. Thankfully that projects like @utopian-io exist, I have not yet received an upvote from them but I am waiting to see.

In any case I understand that people are using upvote selling Bots. I tested it and it actually works pretty well. I decided to stop using them as a matter of principle because I think that an author should be rewarded for his writings and not for his money.

So these are my first impressions, looking for support and getting known takes time, I'll try to make myself known little by little, but I find that a lot of things are not very clear about Steemit.

Greeting !

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erodedthoughts (66) · 7 years ago

It's nice to see a user with a self built account pointing this out and not just the ones making money via delegation and votes. I have not been around all that long and it is a big learning process.
I have been buying some of my Steem via exchanges to help myself grow faster but every time I look at a bigger players account they are powering down. Doesn't it keep more value in Steemit to delegate to others for money than to power down and sell your steem?

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allesia (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

It's not fair to everyone who posts quality content, congratulations on your work for discovering these things.

Indeed, "big thanks to @steemreports for providing tools to uncover these schemes so easily."

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bashadow (65) · 7 years ago

Here we have ONE USER Dictating how much You are allowed by HIM to earn. Do not let this happen people you could be next. Find away to reach out to @ned and put a stop to this: see below:

I hope you are able to read this @ned - - - Something seriously needs to be done. - - - Please read this post https://steemit.com/steemit/@michelle.gent/i-writer

Here was my comment to her "That totally sucks. I as you know, really appreciated being able to read your stories. It is what I enjoy doing, reading, then to have as ass wipe drive you away, I am more than slightly pissed off. And here is the problem child:

"The only way I will be able to reconsider sticking around and only curating is if @transisto removes all the flags from my work and goes and does something useful with his/her votes instead."

Can I as a new user do anything about this, other than to inform you of the problem, he has 495,379.986 STEEM (-130,561.023 STEEM), my downvote to him would not even be noticed.

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alsyana (41) · 7 years ago

Vote back and follow

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itsmikechu (52) · 7 years ago

This feels icky.

I'm authoring and trying to engage over content, but my minnow fish tail has to swim against this. 😔

Thanks for bring this to light and educating us.

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reshmira (44) · 7 years ago

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berniesanders (77) · 7 years ago

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emble (50) · 7 years ago (edited)

There is no differents upvoting yourself, leasing SP or selling votes. In all sceneries the SP stake holder is making the money supposed to go to the quality content writers.
So while you started the upvoting business here, and you earned enough for it, you are not the right person to deal with it.

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berniesanders (77) · 7 years ago

You’re a clueless fuck, aren’t you?

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ats-david (74) · 7 years ago

So while you started the upvoting business here, and you earned enough for it, you are not the right person to deal with it.

Other than him and Transisto, who else actively deals with this type of #rewardpoolrape at this scale?

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michelle.gent (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

What do you consider 'reward pool rape'? Original content shared exclusively on steemit.com perhaps?

11 of my original writing blogs have been flagged because I'm making too much?

Is there a way of working out exactly what I'm allowed to earn from my writing so I can avoid getting flagged like this?

What other factors are taken into consideration? For example, a piece of furniture nailed together and not finished so you get splinters in your arse whenever you sit down would not fetch as much money as a planed and sanded seat with dovetail joints and varnished surfaces.

The apprenticeship and time served must surely be taken into consideration?

I've been writing for more than two decades and have honed my skills, taking courses on editing and proofreading (paid for from my own pocket, not steem) and therefore, I've invested time and money into my apprenticeship.

So, when I write a blog post, not only do I put in hours of writing, decades of writing experience and many more decades of my life-experiences from which I get my writing, you also get a little piece of me and my skill as a writer and storyteller.

@transisto has flagged 11 posts this past couple of days and I'm getting the feeling that it's not just because he/she believes I've been over-paid.

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ats-david (74) · 7 years ago

Have you asked Transisto why he’s downvoting your posts?

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michelle.gent (74) · 7 years ago

Yes. I'm still waiting for replies on the few media I've used for now (steemit.com and chat).

It looks like the lack of steemit.com views could be part of the reason but that's not taking into account that busy.org and esteem etc all have ways of viewing posts that are not counted on steemit.com.

As one writer among the thousands here on Steemit.com, I suppose it's a paradox that I've been noticed by a whale account only to be seen as earning too much for the substantial skill and experience I'm adding to the platform (yes, I am aware that statement sounds arrogant and I have to say it's taken a long time for me to get over my self-confidence issues and actually lay claim to my talent as a writer).

It's a shame @transisto has only just noticed me and my mega-earnings and didn't have time to find my posts when I was earning the vast sums of fuck-all and give me a bit of a boost to encourage a burgeoning writer on a brand new platform.

There's not much point in building an account as a writer on steemit.com if the only thing that happens is your posts get flagged to oblivion if one person deems you're earning too much for their liking.

My writing may not appeal to @transisto but they do appeal to some voters on the platform.

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transisto (74) · 7 years ago

@fulltimegeek , @anyx ... I wish the list was longer

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emble (50) · 7 years ago

What's not clear here? Someone who uses the steem pool for his advantage - shall not deal with others using the same pool for their advantage.
You sold the pool for sbd's - you can't complain when someone else does it in a different way.

ats-david (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

I'm fairly certain that you really don't know what you're talking about here, so I'll just go ahead and continue watching you anger the beast. But my sincere recommendation is to not do that.

Good luck.

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emble (50) · 7 years ago

I'm not angry at all. I'm just telling the facts that other users are afraid to tell.

I'm fairly certain that you really don't know what you're talking about here, so I'll just go ahead and continue letting you anger the beast.

I understand that after getting some votes, you are all his.

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ats-david (74) · 7 years ago

You see...this kind of stupidity is what I'm talking about.

First of all, I wasn't talking about angering you. You're a nobody. Certainly not a beast.

Secondly, the fact that he upvoted one of my posts 15 days ago is pretty irrelevant. Perhaps you can dig up the many many posts of mine that he has upvoted. While you're at it, find nearly every other whale on the platform that has upvoted a post of mine at one time or another over the past 15 months. Does that mean that I am also "all theirs?"

Third...it's obvious that you don't know anything about me either, so perhaps you should quit while you're ahead? I don't have much patience for ignorance and stupidity these days.

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5 votes

mobbs (69) · 7 years ago

New theory: ats-david IS berniesanders!

sircork (64) · 7 years ago

This is fun to watch. :D

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littleboy (72) · 7 years ago

@fulltimegeek.

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fulltimegeek (67) · 7 years ago

transisto made me well aware of this yesterday via chat. Thanks for thinking of me :) ... I have also delegated 30k SP to you @littleboy. Congrats.

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littleboy (72) · 7 years ago

Thanks. I am writing a extended version of this expose. I am writing for 2 hours and it will probably take another 2 hours. A little excerpt from what I am writing:

Recently, @transisto revealed a horde of abuse by people who received delegation from @freedom. You can read about that here. I dug a lot deeper to get more attention to this issue. I have documented some of the major recent abuses by freedom's delegates in the coprehensive post below.

Freedom is currently delegating to the following accounts.

@utopian-io is a service rewarding open source contributions. So, there is no abuse here.

@appreciator is a voting bot. It doesn't vote on comments. It is voting on low quality posts, copypasta and illegal posts, that is, posts that violate laws. This post voted is copied from youtube.

This post copypasta from cnet. This post it upvoted is most likely copyright infringement.

@funny-gifs is a user who got 389,538.264 steem delegation from freedom. He or she is using it to upvote on low quality comments.

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littleboy (72) · 7 years ago

You actually don't have enough SP to counter them. We need action from multiple whales.

https://steemit.com/@askquestion pending payout 301.9$

https://steemit.com/@elizabeth302 pending payout 406.44$

https://steemit.com/@funny-gifs pending payout 309.02$

https://steemit.com/@lays pending payout 152.67$

There are two or three more such accounts.

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17 votes

uwelang (74) · 7 years ago

No worries - Bernie has enough Power to deal with them and more :-). Popcorn Time

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karenmckersie (74) · 7 years ago

sounds good to me !! I like mine with extra butter !!

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uwelang (74) · 7 years ago

Haha - not for me, just realized I need to create value for customers - sure I will miss a lot before I am able to observe the blood later lol

deveerei (68) · 7 years ago

I think he has enough. :)

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago (edited)

all the same person, or at least working together.

erodedthoughts (66) · 7 years ago

He has enough, he can zero out @dan post

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