Downvote Abuse.. the biggest problem on Steem... if you been downvoted read!

Background first:
I have been running the SteemDecathlon for over 2 years with 50,000 entries by thousands of users.
My best contest Memeday which allows people to create Unique content and contributes to the steem eco-system.

It is also been great to onboard many users (over 40 joined the blockchain through the Steeminati).

We have charity efforts on and off the blockchain.

We used bots that contributed to charities to promote our work in @bdvoter (bangladesh voter), @TreePlanter, @minnowbooster for example.

So to promote the contest and others I pay for bots to upvote it to be seen.

Now before we continue, I want to point out that I upvote to promote. And in capitalism (which this is) this is perfectly reasonable.

To also promote my contests I have also given away SBI's, Steem Monster Cards, Steem, Votes and generated Art and banners for many people and bloggers on the block chain my group likes. In addition we upvote others who are worthy.

Here are samples I and my Team have done:

I spent alot of time putting together that and other art (i'm sure much more time then most bloggers on the blockchain)

And if I have someone who is posting inappropriate Content on my blogs, I used my voting power to downvote... NOT FREE DOWNVOTES FROM THE BLOCKCHAIN....And I let them know with a response so they could correct their actions, with the following piece of art:

In fact when @flagrewards had a problem

Now there are trolls on the blockchain down voting unique content small rewards, because those content creators use there own money to pay for promotion. I have no problem down voting for content you read and dislike. But straight down voting because someone else pays for a service, without reading the content and not informing them is absolute garbage.

The worst thing is now they are creating a curation trail for auto down voting authors with out looking at content. So now other trolls see a big down vote and follow suit. Like a bunch of hyenas...

THAT'S A WORSE PROBLEM, Curation trails are worse then anything else on the blockchain.... essentially people now will join in on the most upvoted authors so they can get curation credits......They don't really care what the author is saying only that they are getting lots of upvotes. So in reality they are abusing the system as well!

Curation trails does not reward funny, original, thought provoking, content by unknown authors... it just gets more money to whales who post the same content again and again on a few subjects without doing much effort!

Case in point:
To tell the truth one really shouldn't give a hoot about posts on the inner workings of the steem. But unlike on other social media platforms where social media hot topics actually get the most views and upvotes. People downvote original funny content like memes, jokes, politics, movies (because they promote it) and upvote garbage about the inner workings of steemit's business. On YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms political commentary, funny cat videos and other innocuous stuff goes viral and gets people looking and watching. HERE THEY KILL IT!

In addition it means that anyone who is not already a whale or willing to sink a lot of money into the block chain is getting stomped on.....

In the last week THESE TROLLS HAVE DOWNVOTED MEMEDAY a contest I been running for over a year and a half.
Why cause I paid 1 sbd to bangladesh voter.... They took away my visibility with free down votes.... that is just plain wrong....

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@threespeak
@therealwolf
@bluesniper
@meesterboom
@stackin
@howto

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@eletom
@kevinwong
@lays
@primeradue
@raindrop
@sospicy
@thevil
@vimm
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@techslut
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And all the others need to be downvoted every time they upvote anyone....

These scum don't produce content they just upvote through curation trails to get dividends....

If you have been down voted by these people and their followers, and wish to get retribution, please contact me on discord. (I'm the @thehumanemoticon)

SteemIt is not rolling back these disgusting changes from hf21 which is giving free down votes. So we need to fight back against them ourselves.

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• every time I identify these trolls I will edit the post and add them to it

• Please feel free to tell us about others... we need to drag them into the light of day....An then figure out how to stop this garbage!