@Grumpycat answers @Wackou, (Grumpycat picture inside)
(@Wackou)
Responding to wackou's comment
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Since I believe you're the one wasting my time with emotional and irrelevant bullshit I'll only address the relevant part where you are completely wrong.
... then you act all offended and what not because people downvote this shit?
Not offended, I was making you aware your SP was being used by @drakos on a bot that automatically flag every single of my comments below zero (censorship), the majority of them were politely informing victim of irresponsible vote selling services.
The messages censored were of the following:
"You have received a @GrumpyCat flag because you or someone else sent money to buy votes from an irresponsible non-GrumpyCompliant service.
Some bots are acting irresponsibly by selling votes on posts very close to final payout. These votes are sneaky, not promotion and are most of the time placed on low value content.
Sending money to these bots is also financially supporting for-profit only posters (spammers).
To know what voting bot to use, refer to https://steembottracker.com/ and use those that have 3.5 day or less in the "Max Age" column.
@sneaky-ninja (by @michaeldavid) is reporting 6 day but is actually selling votes up until 6.4 days.
Important warning, since @sneaky-ninja has made no effort to improve in more than 4 months, it's vote will still be countered even should he improve his Max Age setting.
Learn more, learn even more..."
by the way, doesn't your use of bidbots to promote this drivel directly contradicts the rules of your "grumpy initiative"? just saying...
No. (Have you been living under a rock?)
"GrupyCompliance is a new requirement for vote selling services to refuse and refund purchases for votes on posts that are more than 3.5 day old."
@Grumpycat is countering the SP of irresponsible bot owners like the careless greedy dipshit @honeybeee that finance and facilitate people getting paid to post spam by selling them upvotes up to the 6.4th day for a 5-10% profit though @sneaky-ninja bot.
If anyone knows him, It's about time he's made aware of it!
"Limiting abuse is unrewarded and counter productive as spammers are the best customers a bid bot can have."
-Themarkymark owner of @buildawhale, source.
Edit: Meaning bitbots owners should not be trusted to go against their financial best interest (unless they're running for witness like @themarkymark).
Why did I contact the people you delegate to?
Imagine for a second that you leave Steem thinking your SP is being put to good use but overtime @Roxane turned into the next self-voting @haejin. (Who know, it could happen!!!)
I would be less likely to get any collaboration from her than by asking one of your delegatee doing the right thing to contact you.
Now you act responsibly!
Monitor that your Steem Power is being used correctly if your don't want more drama than you're comfortable handling!
Update: @Wackou's SP is still being used for indiscriminate censorship via @Drakos via @the-resistance's bot made by @r351574nc3 (See below)
Some bots are acting irresponsibly by selling votes on posts very close to final payout. These votes are sneaky, not promotion and are most of the time placed on low value content.
Well I agree upon this, people use bots just for their profit, getting upvotes. The content of the post doesn't mean anything to them, they post shit and get upvotes, it's simply business, this kinda shit should be avoided here on this platform. People who's content is really awesome don't get that much of upvotes as they don't use bots.
I agree as well.
I really do not understand this bid bot stuff. In my view it's cheating. I don't even upvote my own posts & don't see why that is even an option. If your content is so bad you have to pay for an upvote or upvote yourself then it's not worth my time.
i like your post and agree with me
that's really what I also think.
I fell asleep after the 13th word...🤣
Looks good. Don't mind me.
I'm not a bot.
Lol...I am also not a bot ;) I got quite a chuckle.
Im not a bot either
@Grumpycat once you said this. Now @wackou and @drakos has right to do anything with their sp.
As anyone can impose whatever they want to the extent of their power.
I'm not the one whining. Hopefully they will do what's best for themselves with their SP.
@grumpycat I am a high school student ,and I made a letter devoted to you talking about flagging I hope you like it and get some reasonable points
The Link: https://steemit.com/grumpycat/@elijah-blogs/dear-grumpcat-an-open-letter-to-grumpycat
nice post
Im a grumpy's fan...
i support you to man... theres not being one flag which i saw and disagree.
D.
Sadly this buying/selling bots issue is getting out of control. I was a daily user, since I joined here (almost 10 months ago) and lately I'm kinda disappointed with how Steemit works, its almost imposible to get a decent organic vote, some whale or some user with a good SP that has read some great post and decided to upvote it because he think it worth the work. Almost everyone with decent SP is selling votes, or in a voting circle, a lot of communities are helping minnows with some good vote to encourage them, and thats awesome but thats it, after you realize your not going anywhere if you are not buying, selling or in a circle that is kinda sad to see how its going. I really like how some people are trying to do something about it, like you with this post 3-5 days bots selling votes, and some others trying to keep it as honest as posible, but for me this is just the tip of an endless problem, (wish Im wrong and future prove me wrong about it) but Steemit is leading to some pyramid scheme that is almost imposible to break after its running.
You spoke my mind friend!
The only way, in my opinion, to stop bidbots is to create a negative stigma around them. Call the users thieves, because they are stealing from the reward pool. Call the owners scumbags, because they are enabling the thieves. Do this in every post. Even if it's just in the form of a banner. Most of us don't have the vested share to really do anything about it. But we all have a voice. And together we can mold this platform into a much better place.
Steemit has become centralized and in that aspect Steemit has failed. Look at even @grumpycat here. Agree of disagree with him he is the probably the only guy on steemit that has enough power that is willing to fight bot abuse with it. Is that a community action? No, its one guy trying to do something because he has the power to do it. Affecting the ecosystem is completely in the hands of the top100 accounts.
Do you know what we can do? We can fill up the comment section of a large whale where heavy topics are discussed, but do you for a second think any of them will be taking you seriously or remembering what you wrote for more then a few minutes? Its not out of malice, but rather a instinctive reaction people have.
Without the SP our voice is literally insignificant. You dont have any kind of effect on the platform and people will hardly take your voice seriously like they would of someone like Grumpy or Mark or even Haejin.
Some other whales try to do the same as Grumpy, in a different way but when you have so many benefiting from a flawed system what really can you expect.
I mean it might sound like a shit thing to say, "collateral damage" but how do you expect one guy to get it right every single time. Mistakes are bound to happen.
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Abuse will only stop if whales stop delegating their steempower to the bots.
Whales will never stop doing that. Its just too profitable for them.
I hope you guys settle this in a timely manner. The less drama on the platform, the more interesting it is for newcomers.
Also, if @sneaky-ninja becomes #grumpycompliant you should stop hitting the buyers solely based on the fact that it took so long to become grumpy compliant.