I did not intend for the post to be made invisible but it is incredibly frustrating to see this after so much effort has been spent to combat bid bot abuse on the platform.

I have been fighting bid bot abuse long before @justineh / @llfarms had been on the platform so maybe I'm a little salty and weary to see the same thing again and literally as the first post I find reviewing trending.

Maybe I think it is prudent to make examples because then we will see it less. I'm sorry it had to be your post but you placed it in a situation to be scrutinized.

How easy is it for an a user to move promotion abuse to an alt account? The decisive loss of funds is an effective deterrent so I don't agree with the overkill notion. If anybody else tries it, same should happen irrespective of what we perceived the user to know or not know. Yeah, it sucks when a user doesn't know what they are doing but feeling bad doesn't put the rewards on content that rates.

If we are going to promote to Trending, care must be taken so content reflects.