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WARNING: this is lengthy. I did not write it right now; its just a collection of fragments of posts copy & pasted; yet the big bad @matt-a wolf keeps shutting them down. But this is an important issue within the community that needs to be addressed.

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I figure better now; when other time would I? If a family member of yours dies from Alzheimer's you're more susceptible to being a donor to a charity organization that's focused on developing a cure for Alzheimer's right?

Now I'm not comparing myself to them; it is just an analogy. This was always an issue but I never addressed it or did anything about it as a member; it should be all of our responsibility to maintain the integrity & growth of this platform until one user named @matt-a started flagging literally all my posts.

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So yeah, it happened to me. Yeah i'm bitching about it. But that doesn't diminish or change the fact that this is still an ongoing issue within the community that many users have a problem with

I'm spending all I have to promote this (for now) & I apologize it would be much more but I've got a little bit of a predicament where a butthurt cyber-bully is literally paying money to flag my posts & decrease my rep from 60 to 47 in 10 days just because I told the truth about my experience when I first joined this plaftorm, and how a user named @matt-a was pathetic enough to shut down my first 4 blog posts, including the introduceyourself one that matters most where I posted a detailed, sufficient response.

It's been roughly 6 months; what has changed? My steemrep (started at 17... no not 25, unlike the rest of us) and I climbed my way up to 64-65 *literally 1 rep higher than the coward who's cyber-bullying & harrassing me by using call-blocking apps to call my phone number repeatedly like a teenage girl that got dumped. He's spending hundreds of $$ in #steem to ensure that my account is buried and I'm fighting back using what modest/small I have to offer without investing a single penny in steem token.

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How did I pull this off? READ BELOW FOR SECRET METHOD!!

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I used the platform as intended... allow me to elaborate incase you're confused as to what I mean by that as once you hear what this kid does & how he abuses the curation reward system you might feel sick to your stomach & if *(after reading this comment)* you're left with that impression of @matt-a; as I understand there is an element of bias but I am gladly and willingly offering, rather pleading with the community to make this distinction for themselves then deal with it once they have.

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In case anyone's wondering what I"m talking about... just click on his wallet & blog. How can a user have nearly 100k account value whilst collecting dozens of SBD weekly ***yet never have posted a single piece of original content throughout the entire duration of the "30 moons" he's been a steemit user. This is despicable behavior... unlike people like you or I who put in hours of our time writing thought-provoking, informative & detailed experiences/blog posts that have general intrinsic value, what I"m dealing with is literally the epitome of everything the #steemit #steem developers feared would happen & took every precaution to prevent it from happening, and that is:

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Using the monetary / curation reward payout bonus as an obvious and shameful way to maximize his wallet or curation payouts rather while ensuring that the author gets not a single penny more than "he deserves, god forbid that greedy bastard try to take more than 50% of the rewards on a post he made" & literally diminish / disincentive users (look at my blog post... case in point) from authoring phenomenal content (which I firmly believe I do as did my 800 followers (now down to 600ish due to him, along with my steemprep from 60 to 47 as this petty man-child pays money literally to ensure that he can maintain the illusion of a moral high ground by being #1 with the most upvotes and when I say the most upvotes I mean he's got one upvote and its typically for $0.28 as that's just one of the many, many calculated methods he uses to take advantage of the reward curation system. I mean literally this is a checklist of things (that I know of) he does; among omany others.

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He's got an entire system created & perfected for this specific purpose.

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He actually had me convinced *as my very first day on this platform; i ran into him and he did the same shit. flagged & shut down 4 of my posts; walking around playing cyber-bully & keyboard warrior and trolling the introduceyourself section instead of growing a pair of balls and ever confronting/having a dispute with a user that has the VP to match him, as he is a coward plain and simple.

What do cowards do? They cower. & @matt-a has been one hell of a coward. Yet as I've tried to make clear time & time again; this was never personal. It was about the community & that's it.

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So he takes advantage of loopholes on the curation payout system, how it works & **maximizes his curation rewards through a series of methods/ a formula which is LITERALLY written by the developers in a presentation of the ICO as

"a legitimate concern that certain bad apples won't play by the rules & take advantage of the monetary incentive but we're hoping the community will take note of that and police itself so we won't have to worry" - Steemit founder Ned Scott while under fire from criticism from co-founder Joe Lee.

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1. Anyone who has been using this platform longer than a month knows that you get 20 votes a day. Anything more than that and it's counter-productive; with the magic number being 80% now @matt-a will make sure each & every one of those 20 votes goes to the "right" post. there ain't anything wrong with that. but what is the "right' post? to the average user; or at least the average content producing user, *(my process is as follows):* I'll spend about an hour skimming/reading through 100 blog posts daily and spend those 20 upvotes on posts *REGARDLESS* of when it was posted.

IF YOUR content/author is making a great post & i happen to catch is 3 minutes after it is been posted; I'm not going to set a timer for 27 minutes and come back to take 50% of his curation.

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That's pathetic. That's greedy. That's a bottom-feeder. That's @matt-a. So the next time you get an upvote from him; remember that he's getting half the money you put promoting + not to mention all the time spent creating the content.

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2. He doesn't read the posts he upvotes nor does he care. He's strictly in it for the money. He doesn't use this platform to learn new things as you or I would... He specifically targets 70-75+ steemrep users who have just posted a blog post & then unlike me or you *as we have better shit to do* he will set that timer & come back EXACTLY 29 min and 59 sec to upvote it; often times without even clicking on the link to see what's in it. This kid would upvote a post that had a pic a of his mother gettin fucked in the ass so as long as it wasn't the first image & not in the thumbnail. Again; ask yourself, is this the kind of guy you want as this community grows from "getting paid for best content" to "getting paid for a popularity contest" *smh*

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• 1. Using services like @smartsteem, @smartmoney, @minnowbooster; and commenting very frequently (usually bullshit ass-kissing posts to new users as he is well aware that the new users from #introduceyourself are given more exposure & automatic promo from the platform) so all he has to do is make sure he posts a lot of comments frequently, despite not having a single blog post because with comments he can leave under 250 characters of just straight dick riding on something that he does not mean whatsoever just to get that 100% payout & unlike his greedy ass; people will upvote those comments of his before the 30m 50% split so he gets to keep 75-100% of the curation on posts that he's upvoting with his own money..

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Will reply with comment/post image in comment section/response too large

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Screenshot above LITERALLY PROVES MY POINT FOR ME; shows how petty he is and how to him this is personal whereas to me this is about the platform & his juvenile bottom-feeding pathetic loser ass tainting it with his toxicity & "cutting corners"

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-4. If matty @matt-a a.k.a. Boris Nemstov guy did this once in a while I'd understand; but as you can see from the image above, every time I make a post not 30 minutes, tops later it becomes; well let me put it in his words

"You're banned. Flagged. shut it down, you're done from this platform. goodbye" for simply:

You literally admit that you are flagging my posts & harassing my personal life because you are a bitch. I tell you that I won't stand for this shit I didn't start anything all I did was tell the truth as I referenced you as an example in an anecdote I was writing a comment on about a post from a #minnow / new user that was going through something similar that I had; remembering what it was like 6 months ago as a new/confused user in what was frankly a very intimidating app to navigate for the first time ever.

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YOU know the difference between me and you matthew? I don't take personal shots at you cause I don't give a shit about you. I care about this platform; and the growth of #steemit vastly outweighs this pettiness game where you think that by stalking my life, insulting my family, and cowardly ranting like a bitch by accessing my personal info that's all public knowledge... I'm an open book & got nothing to hide. I encourage any and all users to PLEASE check my posts & my blog & his as well. Unlike matty/Boris I have no problem with it. He'll be biting his nails however, he doesn't want you to figure out his racket although don't worry I doubt this comment post will be up long enough for you guys to read it.

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I just want to clarify to make this clear. Very briefly; I make these lengthy responses & clear points because the mods won't do anything as they clearly don't give a shit. That's why I"m turning to the community not to assist me with a personal problem I"m having but rather assist the entire platform as this is a commonly reoccurring problem within #steemit and it is toxifying the growth & future development of its base.

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By doing what he's doing; authors are de-incentivized to create great content. This lethargy & lack of incentive/rewards will create an atmosphere no different than FB/Instagram or other social media platforms where its virtually a popularity contest and nothing more or less... So this is it. My plea to the community about cyber-bullying VP loophole curation reward abusing pricks like @matt-a. Heed my warning; or let this happen:

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What are we going to do about; this obvious & clear inherent flaw in Steemit curation/reward system?? *sarcasm*

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That was intended to be rhetorical... your move whales. It's time for the elder members of the community (with enough VP & clout) to step up & do something about this since the mods won't... unless you want to see FB make their own version of a social media platform on the blockchain and overtake #steemit as the main go-to platform... think I'm joining too? He's already gotten started (Zuckerberg) and this was written during spring (April) Q2 and don't be fooled: he has the resources, clout & connection to overtake this platform & do to steemit what he did to myspace. ***UNLESS WE AS A COMMUNITY BAND TOGETHER AND STOP IT FROM HAPPENING!

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/09/zuckerberg-invests-in-blockchain-to-keep-facebook-relevant.html

ABOVE IS THE LINK FOR THE ZUCKERBERG BLOCKCHAIN INTRODUCED; READ IF YOU'D LIKE. BUT THIS IS EVIDENCE TO ME THAT IF WE DO NOT (AS A COMMUNITY) FIX THIS PLATFORM, THEN WE WILL BE SHOVED ASIDE AND EATEN IN TRUE CAPITALISTIC FASHION.

P.S. You don't exactly need to be Freud to realize that I don't like this kid/sorry excuse for a user; matt-a. At the same time; you don't need to be Freud to realize that I would never in a million years resort to the level of pettiness he has... nor would I waste the amount of time I have addressing this community problem, so spare me the "flag wars" or "personal dispute" responses as this was 120% personal for him and for me... just a way to shine a spotlight on a topic/problem within the community that many people have already addressed/posted about & yes, you caught me, guilty as charged.... if I can bring down some lowlife bottom feeder who's literally destroyed my account in the processs, its a 2 birds 1 stone scenario that's too juicy to pass up.