Now this will not make a lot of sense but it does not need to. Since this is my blog I get to write what I like and I am sure those who don't like it will downvote or whatnot but one little unspoken guideline we all have become accustomed to by now is "Move along."
Frankly if no one moved along then you would need 1 downvote from each person on Hive on whatever is trending. Then again if you actually know what is on the Hive trending then I doubt you have been here long.
As with all things there are caveats and with that you can stop chattering your teeth like a banshee about the generalization that all things trending should be downvoted. Only most should. Or none.
I really can't be arsed and hence I move along.
Another trend on Hive are these stupid comment bots, now all fair when they reward you their own token. Nice, clean and bloody direct out of their "pocket".
Not so nice when these things start using the Hive reward pool. Nothing inherently wrong with that aside from that they are offloading the RISK and ethical use onto the user.
Now when it comes to self-voting and Hive then we have been around the block and again, it basically goes like this:
If you have a lot of money then it is fine.
If you don't then err on the way of caution, because everyone with money is watching what you do.
This does extend, remember those useless upvote bots that is mighty useful when you want to reward commenters and others the problem is since they use the Hive reward pool to an extent and say you have like me only 3 commenters (please I do not want anymore than that this is not a bloody party) then you run that ethical risk of I scratch your back you scratch mine.
Again this is because of incompetence on the bot creators part. More than that I would say it is self-interest that drives that.
See to use some of these you obviously need their little token. So you get the pigeonhole-coin and you think oh nice my vote is worth 0.002 so I can give someone this vote which is .02 - remember you are still poor so don't have much of the camel spew to be spitting.
On Hive this becomes a ethical dilemma. Really I am not going to explain it because if you can't see it...
Now that we are happily voting away, the VOTE-BOT owner who is no longer just a friendly yaptrap pleaser and is now a good 'ol fashioned STEEM voting service starts having issues.
The good and right thing to do would be to moderate your VOTE-BOT but this is obviously not the Hive way, and instead of implementing a proper moderation system, and this can be automated as well but obviously they took it from someone else so who the hell knows how the code works right.
No instead since this now is in the almighty Hive universe why not get the Guardians of the Bees Anus involved and let them implicate perfectly legit users in some classic reward nipple tugging.
So basically if something on Hive gives you an actual vote as reward, you better be asking how can this screw me or the people I give this to over?
I like using the @Ecency vote sometimes and frankly feel they do in effect moderate and do the effort to control how it is used.
I like using the PIZZA command although it means nothing it is something , like a smile to some people.
I do not like commands that call a vote without knowing what the owner of that bot has done to ensure I or the person I give it to is protected inadvertently or directly.
I do not care for these buy my pigeonhole token and we will reward you from the public pool - and even if not from the pool a vote gets value from somewhere, are you using secondary tokens? Do they like the way users are using your tool?
But anyway, go ahead make multiple blogs to support the same facade of an account funnel that back into some other paper town and maybe sell some hope while you are at it.
It is a small thing I guess, a 0.02 cent vote ... Who lays claim to that gift horse.
I even got a bloody picture for this post - https://www.pexels.com/photo/pigeon-drinking-water-461329/
