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RE: Shots Fired : NewSteem Launches Blitzkreig on Trending Battlefield
Its not too surprising to see bidbot accounts embracing new steem. Ultimately if they hadn't been acting the way they were, the will to push through the necessary changes wouldn't have existed.
Change the rules of the game, and you change the behaviour of the players; many of who may have been deliberately abusing the old rules in order to highlight the problems with oldsteem.
Goodness knows, complaining wouldn't have changed anything.
True enough. The question is whether the ones who have been deliberately abusing the old rules will go on ahead and deliberately abuse the new rules.
As for complaining...well it's something that I'm good at. I still like to think that rational people can be reasoned with. Haven't had much luck with that on STEEM though admittedly :)
There are still people on the platform who will autovote any shit they can find as long as the curation rewards are good. It is impossible to directly punish those users if they are not creating any content. The only thing we can do is to unearth all the shitposts these second degree milkers are upvoting and downvote that shit to the ground. That will kill the second degree parasites also.
It's frustrating because what the upvote spammers are doing is the opposite of what the #newsteemians are trying to accomplish with their downvotes.
Upvote spammers are not too hard to counter. Just some basic SQL skills and access to SteemSQL and a bot that can go around and whack them all.