Of course there might be a fair use case for 11th hour voting, the problem is that this circle jerk is shunned by the community. this is seen as siphoning away of rewards, these rewards get cashed out and not powered up, and the abusers validate the act by saying that "it's their sp and it's allowed" which is hardly validating the community or the ethos behind steem of freeing the world from financial tyranny(I have to free my family first.. even though the amount of wealth is considered obscene by 95% of the world) through attention economy, the purpose of curating is to find new, original content and give it exposure and not siphon away a steady stream of SBD while making a mockery out of curation. This is abuse/gaming the system, even if it's not explicit, people see this, everyone understand this, nepotism is shunned and rightly so, this is a community built on the ethos of merit and not "because the rules allow for it", the rules beg us to pitchfork her indeed, we are the rules.
RE: Fifty Shades of @Sweetsssj & Sour: Eleventh Hour Nepotist? Shadow VoteSeller? Role Model or The Real Slim Shady?
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Oh I totally get that, scrapping the reward pool is detrimental to the community and it should be dealt with.
But is last day voting, or even auto-voting for that matter, a good KPI for scrappers? I don't believe so.
In fact, I propose a different approach, why not gather a task force to analyze these situations on a case by case basis? I mean, @abusereports at one point even reported @utopian-io, for [insert deity]'s sake.
https://steemit.com/bots/@abusereports/last-minute-upvote-list-2018-02-18#@abusereports/re-last-minute-upvote-list-2018-02-18-20180218t141925
Circlejerk pumping is, in my humble opinion, THE greatest problem with steem, it's so bad it's not even a steem problem, it's a consensus problem, a blockchain (and tangle) problem. IOTA has it so bad it's still being controlled by a central power and can only be democratically controlled later on with a gargantuan amount of participants and even then...who knows.
But there's good circlejerking as well, and that's why it's so hard to tackle this issue. @utopian-io is one of them. My preferred communities small communities could benefit from that.
All in all, I'm just questioning the last day voting phenomenon as a reliable KPI. How many of @abusereports 's reports are valid? What's the percentage of false positives? Did anyone bother to check? Are we going to just flag the crap out of every name @abusereports spews out?
It all looks uncontrolled, I see it only enticing blind pitchforking.
@walden has done a good job researching this case (I'll still have to review this specific user to get a proper opinion, but I value @walden 's effort none the less), I'll give you that. But by now he's already way behind schedule, just look at how many names have already been named.
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Of course everything that a bot dishes out must be sifted and inspected and considered in the "bigger picture" perspective but the place to start is with those instrumental in siphoning off most of the rewards, big fish queue up first.
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I think we can agree on that.
I just hope that this doesn't get fueled by disdain towards whales alone. If I was a whale I'd probably be doing it to pump up users and communities I value. (I don't know, it's easy for a poor man to say his heart is pure, I guess)
Thanks for chiming in on the subject. I appreciate that. Let's hope for the best, as in...the best way to draw the line between good whale/bad whale.
Cheers.
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