RE: Downvote Abuse.. the biggest problem on Steem... if you been downvoted read!
I don’t agree with people being downvoted just for promoting their content with bots. The content needs to be evaluated, downvoting due to a $1 upvote is ridiculous. I am all in favour of promoted posts being downvoted to the ground if content is clearly used for rewards farming. If @minnowbooster customers are victimised for using our service, I am happy to get involved. We have taken steps to make minnowbooster socially responsible and we return 5% to burn and 5% to the steem.dao, furthermore there is a 5% burn on delegator withdrawls, these steps taken should be sufficient enough to stave off downvotes, anyone downvoting a good post using our service is just being plain radical. However if a post is promoted with multiple bots in addition to MB that are not socially responsible I won’t be in a position to get involved.
thank you for your view point and good service ricardo.
I understand your position completely.
The question becomes is when is promotion ok?
This is a social media network.
2 months ago I started my yearly NFL contests. In previous years I had least 100 participants each week in the contests. This was as easy indicator of health of a social network. I had less than 20 entries over 6 weeks this year and I even promoted the contests up to try and get participants.
All this garbage has driven users off the blockchain. And it is alienating more.
i do agree with you... @richatvns
my sister she is 16 wrote a post on how USA and other countries taking steps to clean space junk.
that wonderfull report made her a state champion and these fuckin' mornons just downvoted her beautiful report and she left the blockchain after her first post....
But still we can do nothing...
whales from the beginning doing scam now they just stopping us to earn some steem.
but since ihave only 200SP i am unable to do anything...
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we can note @markymark just showed up and downvoted me...
We need to get all the people who have been downvoted by these guys and work as group against them....
There are way more of us then them. The just focus attack people for a week or two
and then drive them off. And then they move to the next set of victims.
That means over the course of the last year alone 50 times the amount of people they attack in a week. Could easily get others to go back at them.'
By removing witness votes and all using our downvotes on the biggest whales payouts.
I will be putting together a curation software to take out first the small guys that support them then the big guys.
The Blacklist has over 100,000 names on it. Including whales....
If we even get a small percentage of them to help out we can stop this.
My community "the Steeminati" has 192,000 (sp and delegations), and we will be adding more. 2000 people with avg of 200 sp work together. There will be no more of this garbage.
I am putting together a plan so follow me and check in.....
We will change this garbage.....
I think the problem is that buying upvotes is seen as a poor way to promote. Buying votes detracts from the way steem is supposed to work. The number one reason for downvoting a post is disagreement with reward. It's pretty easy to disagree with rewards when you are buying them. Is this post worth $15 or should some be returned to the reward pool for other creators? That's the real question everyone should ask when they are debating whether or not they should press that downvote button.
You may see buying votes as "promotion" but others see it as you and the bots raping the rewards pool. A downvote isn't an "attack", it's a vote on how rewards should be distributed, just as an upvote is.