Excellent to hear haejin!

Back then I completely understand your stance and did the exact same thing: If everyone else was just going to abuse the system, then why should I be a sucker and just forfeit my own voting rewards? Why hand over commission to a bid bot to help launder my vote rewards when I can just vote up my own posts? At least that way I wasn't interfering with trending.

But the economy has now armed us all with the tools to shift this thing back in the right direction: where honest curation is the norm. As you can see we're gradually moving out of the dark ages of Steem where bid bots, vote selling, circle jerking and self voting was the norm. Some of the largest bid bots such as OCDB and Smartsteem have completely shifted their business towards curation. Other bid bots have also ceased or are about to cease operating, and the rest are under heavy pressure from downvotes.

Same can be said with circle jerkers etc.

Obviously if we can get a functioning content discovery and rewards platform based on honest votes, then that's ideal for large investors like you and I. There was no hope of changing that in a broken economy back then, but there's every chance we can achieve this now.

Let's curate honestly and fight against others who continue to abuse the system rather than just wasting our downvotes retaliating at those who downvoted us when were self voting (although a lot of your downvoting I agree with, some of those posts are clearly just farm posts and deserve to be 0).

For the first time ever in Steem's history we have a real chance at enforcing honest voting platform wide! This is necessary if Steem is to ever hope achieve it's potential value that you no doubt see as well. Join me in upvoting the best content we can find on here and be rewarded handsomely in curation.

And help me fuck over those who continue to undermine this platform with dishonest voting. Vote sellers, bid bots, circle jerkers etc. Why let them continue to milk this place when others like ourselves have now chosen not to?