As I keep getting personal messages (in discord, etc.) why I sometimes remove my upvotes, as well as why some authors stopped receiving my upvotes, seems it's time to put more light on this.
Yes, indeed, I have removed a number of my upvotes in the last few weeks.
Those were the UP's, which got through in spite of my recent personal rules, started for curation on POB tribe.
(it happens sometimes, as some of my votes go out while in the bot auto-mode, and/or been placed as a curation trail. There is no secret, that I am not able to maintain 100.00% manual curation all the time, and so far I could not find out how to make my recent rule technically active, while on trails and voting bot)
It is rather simple:
I do not want any more to support those authors posts, who have their post or comment rewards set to 10% beneficiary to proofofbrainio
This beneficiary is hard coded in the front end of POB tribe, {proofofbrain.io}, so possibly a certain number of tribe authors even don't realize, where their collected rewards go, and why.
I also sometimes see others are doing this beneficiary manually, even setting it at higher levels than 10%
I still upvote those people, when I see their post or comment without this -10%, and this fact can be a proof that I have nothing against those authors in person.
But those who are willing to give away 1/10 of your rewards (from every post!) to a personal account - please do not expect my support anymore.
Anyone is free to give a part (or even all) of their rewards to this private account, but I do not want to help you in this, in any possible way. At least - until I see a clear evidence that those funds are used exactly in a way how it was declared, in the early days of this tribe.
I have no doubt there will be few advocates coming here soon, trying to remain me how it was declared that these "beneficiary" funds will be used for tribe's development etc etc. No need to remind me. I remember.
But after a half a year (!) waiting, I DO NOT trust those words anymore. It is nothing but plain words now.
The FACTS what I see - are different, and you probably see them too.
The owner of this "proofofbrainio" account comes to POB once in FIVE months, is not engaged with members of the tribe any more, does not respond to the tribe member's numerous public requests in POB blogs and discord, has done ZERO progress in announcing/updating POB roadmap. On top of all, he has changed the mandatory "beneficiary" -10% cut-off from a community account (
Why should I still treat this account different from any other regular private account?
Why is this account created with "top level" secret, who exactly is behind it?
I have seen people guessing is him a male, a female, a girl ?
I even have seen one assumption, that I (onealfa) am that secret person behind "proofofbrainio" 😃
I am not going to tell you how you should use your funds, your tokens, your rewards.
YOU ARE FREE to do what you want. At any time. Always.
Just like I am free to vote only those posts/comments which I find suitable.
And I want you to know this.
Sure !
Stop using proofofbrain.io front end, avoid this toxic -10%, and you will have no problems receiving my upvotes once again.
Every single day my upvotes distribute over 1000 of POB tokens, 50% of them goes to the authors. Every day.
Do you really want to refuse them?
P.S.
(and I am not a secret. Not at all. Just google for my ID "onealfa". You probably will find not only my real name, telephones, emails, place where I live, but even many much older facts of my bio. I use "onealfa" on any and all imaginable social networks, FB, twitter, Insta, YT, Reddit, medium, etc etc. My Mom has taught me when I was still a kid - "be Cautious with people who behave very secret - usually their future intentions are very bad..." )
