RE: Self-Upvoting – The scourge of HF 19? - Is there a solution?
I think all the "self voting lists" and the entire issues is completely over-shadowing all kinds of other work we should be doing on the Steemit platform.
To quote @smooth:
"Someone who buys SP and then selfvotes is not 'draining' anything and at best can get back a portion of what was put in. It causes no harm at all."
Investors are the ones who underwrite all of the rewards on this platform. If you are not an investor, or are only a smaller investor, you need to focus your efforts on creating inspiring content that makes investors want to give their money to you. Whatever else they do or don't do with their money (including self-voting) is not your concern and does not harm you in any way. Nevertheless, you do have a downvote that you can use to disagree with what you think are underserved rewards. I suggest using it."
"The idea of creating 'lists of shame' and demonizing people is divisive, creates a hostile and toxic environment attractive to no one, and serves no useful purpose. There is no way to tell from these lists whether the content is deserving of the rewards or not. The only way to tell is by actually looking at the content, and if you think it is undeserving, downvote it."
"Your own statistics show that self-voting is awarding about 8.5% of the reward pool. I don't find that suggestive of any problem whatsoever. It is probably a very reasonable number given that the current parameters give people 10 full power votes to make per day. Thus one is being applied to the voters' own content and nine to others' (on average, of course). Seems fine."
I agree that investors should be able to reap a return on their investment too as long as they are contributing to the platform either by upvoting worthwhile content or posting worthwhile content. Otherwise, what's the point of steemit as a platform? It might as well be just another crypto. I think the ability to interact and lock information into the block chain is an important component of the platform too.
My concern with your comment is that most of the comment you have posted is not your own content and I wonder whether it adds any additional value to the platform. I then wonder whether this reply to you comment will also be considered to be adding just as much value to the platform as your comment and be upvoted accordingly or this won't be a consideration as it opposes your views on the subject? I would like to believe that this platform can also be used to reward other people for their creative content and not be another avenue for greed. I don't have an issue with self-upvoting per se, if users are kind enough to spread their power and goodwill to other users and vote up quality content. To post a comment on another users post, self-upvote it and not give that users post an upvote too is plainly wrong though. If they had not created the content, then you would not have the opportunity to post a comment to self upvote. Those are my views.
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