Self voting plakton/redfish will never drain the reward pool. Any one that thinks they will or can are not well informed. Likewise a self voting plakton/redfish is never going to grow, even if they devoted 100% of their votes to themselves. If a person's vote does not add to at least $0.020 their vote is never going to pay for anything. At 80SP your vote becomes almost $0.010, at 160SP you are at the $0.020 level, but not for more than a couple of votes. When you reach about 250SP then you can give out the above dustlevel vote, and then maybe a self vote initiative on that person's part would take a miniscule portion out of the reward pool.
To get to that 250SP level is not an easy thing, you have to put comments and votes on other people's content before yourself. Or have a sugar daddy/momma.
Right, and that's why I put the disclaimer that it is negilible. The focus should rightfully be on where the stake is.
The language on my part could probably be tweaked further as to not single out plankton like that but I did want it to leave some sort of a mark, even for them. At least just to think about.
Language on your part was fine, I just wanted people to see that saying the problem is redfish/plakton related is not true. I also wanted to bring out the plight of the redfish/plankton trying to get a start on steemit. They are not the ones using bid bots, they have no money, they can not afford them, once again they have to wait till that are halfway to the slider before they can actually afford to try and buy votes. Or to save every single SBD penny until they can put a bid in, in maybe a month or two. Then you get to read their horror story post about bid bots. Seen it far to often.
Oh gross... They even lost a lot from it? That is horrifying indeed...
actually, i have seen many "new" accounts being created JUST for bid botting and i traced many to those that are already on the platform and moving up as in fat minnows and dolphins, some whales. so the perception is that they are planktons and quick baby minnows. just peruse the introduction, introduce me pages and monitor over an extended period of time and you will see the pattern. further, watch who cashes out ...