Having just spent some time reading through the 100+ replies to this post, it's fair to say that it has been nothing if not interesting.

Firstly some observations - I've seen two main types of response here. The first is clearly emotional, angry and combatative. Whilst understandable when we all have some skin in the game to some level, it doesn't really help anyone. The second is seeking to understand and hopefully resolve differences.

I hopefully fall into the latter with this post.

I understand that you see @steembasicincome in a similar sense to the old style bid bots that dominated the landscape before the last hard fork. Given many of those bidbots were happy to indiscriminately upvote utter trash or plagiarism so long as they were paid. I get it, I really do.

Where SBI differs is that @josephsavage and his team put in a lot of work to ensure that kind of crap is not rewarded. There are plenty of users that have been blacklisted by SBI for this type of behaviour. The idea of the scheme is to reward Steem users who make the effort to enhance the blockchain and not those who are just looking to cash in.

Is there room for improvement? Almost certainly? What does that improvement look like? Stopping upvotes on comments? Worth considering. Shutting down the sbi-booster? Maybe. But isn't the best option here to open the lines of communication to find the middle ground that everyone can work with?

I do have one other question as well. Your downvotes on SBI posts are, as you rightly state, relatively small in the scheme of things. It has been described as a "tax" of sorts, not intended to impact organic support. The trailing downvotes with your staked tokens, however, in some cases are, even at a low percentage, impacting at a higher level than any rewards received from SBI in the form of these tokens. As has been stated previously multiple times, your stake is yours to wield as you see fit, but I would ask that you consider at the very least reviewing the impact of these token based downvotes in the overall scheme of your objective.

Thanks for your consideration.

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