Haha I wouldn't say most people would consider someone who's been self voting for a year and a half to be of high integrity.

I'm pretty honest with what I was doing the entire time, and my current voting behavior is exactly what I claimed they were going to be and for the exact reasons I claimed: I wasn't going to forgo profits under a stupid economy that punished honest voting. So when I finally managed to help change that economy, I'm going to fight for a PoB system that this place was always meant to be.

It's no longer a futile fight. Dishonest voting is no longer rewarded 4x more than honest voting. 50% curation closed that gap. And there's the additional threat of 25% free downvotes looming over the heads of bad actors, which closes that gap even further. Many self voters and vote sellers are defecting to the good side. The remaining ones are feeling a lot of heat, and unlike expensive downvotes, there's no reason why anyone will relent with their free ones.

Victory isn't guaranteed. We can lose this fight. But we can also win it. We can get to a point where we mostly just behave honestly by curating well and settling for 50% curation rewards. And if someone self votes or vote sells considerably for higher rewards at the expense of honest voting, they're seen as an outlier and punished accordingly. We have a long way to go until we get there. But it's no longer utterly futile. It's winnable.

Fight with me.