RE: This Week's Whaleshares Writing Contest and Winners from Last Week! Compete for your share of 1000s of Steem in prizes!
Attention @Cheetah ´s - I hope that @jphenderson is clever enough to distinguish honest entries from cheating ones ... 40+ votes in 7 hours? sure why not ... luckily me eSteem app shows me the time of voting, like https://steemd.com does, and it´s obvious that the entry from @maya7, @fatpandadesign and @skinnythames were upvoted by voting bots ...
actually i was also thinking if i should post my reply via eSteem to get 12+ votes, but i thought that would have been to obvious ... i´m here for the community, not for the money and for the craving of it ...
@maya7
all got upvotes by mostly the same names, not at exactly the same time, but 14-20 votes were given at one and the same time ...
actually i was the one who invited @fatpandadesign to this contest, but i guess i won´t invite him anywhere in the future ... i´m also part of his minnow fb group, which i guess i´ll eventually leave
@jphenderson, if you need the screenshots fot better reading let me know via steemit.chat - or you can check out by yourself
https://steemd.com/
Love, Flurgx
So this is cheating? Hmm...
if this isn´t i don´t know what is .. we are on a blockchain guys ... you can not hide shit like this! but if you need that shares so desperately, then go ahead - i give you mine voluntary - life is not about money ... you should actually know that with the history you are coming from ...
and the last word has @jphenderson, he has to state if this is cheating in his eyes or not
@maya7 is my mother's account. She was on the top with 8 votes when I saw that people were using bots to vote for themselves. I only used the bot votes to counter the others.
But if it is cheating and since I can't remove the votes then I request @jphenderson to not count the votes between 2017-06-15T06:24:24 and 2017-06-15T06:38:21 . Because in that timeframe the bot votes occured.
That will make it fair.
thanks for your reply @rahul.stan - i´m not quite sure, but i don´t think that this contest was intended to be a "who got the better voting bot" contest ...
anyways i think the "who got the most votes" way of determining the winner has a flaw in itself ... maybe @jphenderson or the community itself can figure out a way to determine winners in contests, other than the upvote count ..
the price is very hot here, so the temptation is huge to cheat ...
you are at least honest enough to say that you used a bot ...
@fatpandadesign ignored me, laughed at me and kicked me out of the facebook group .. yeah ... a real sportsman :D
see u around
I have tried to be fair. But seeing others cheat I had had to take this drastic step.
Hope @jphenderson can see behind this. She worked hard on this post. And I couldn't stand seeing someone cheat to win it.
thanks for your help... I was already onto that.
If you disqualify the "bot" votes (which are majority just actual users who followed our trail) that's fine - i've gone and secured at least 40+ non "bot" votes from other people who want to help me pay it forward. We have a member in our group who is in need and if i win this, a good chunk is going her way to make up for what was stolen from her. So however you decide to handle this, I respect that, but I've played fair the past few days and gotten plenty of votes from other people. The timestamps will prove this. Thank you for your consideration and however this plays out I respect your decision.