‎Hello Hives, ‎ ‎A few days ago, I was listening to a programme on the radio about an ongoing election in one part of Nigeria. What caught my attention was the number of people calling in to share their

From the time immemorial, the issue of vote buying is being done or accomplished through means of cash at hand system. This is the process whereby, during the day of election you will just see one unanimous

What is @rewarding.app? @reward.app is a new third party service on Hive that enables an author to define the percentage of the author rewards of a post are redistributed to curators. The default is only

More Power = More Support. This might be a rather "sensitive" subject as people have different opinions and this is strictly based upon those. One might say that the more power you have, the

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Summer and vacations are here! As a friendly gesture, the ever-forgiving Church of Piglet invites all those who delegate to bidbots to a guided tour of the peat bog next to our church building in The

Hello friends, I was busy trading and learning how to trade to make more profit lately. So I couldn't manage to blog here. However as the market is heavily down and my trading portfolio is having a bad

ONO Social just replied to one of my tweets regarding the rampant use of Bid Bots and Vote Buying on Steemit platform. I asked them whether this will be allowed on ONOSocial or not? They responded by saying

What is the point Powering Up or Holding Steem Power when The power to Trend something (or the so called 'influence') on Steemit lies with Bid-Bots that have huge upvote values? THINK About it... As a

Sell-out... Sometimes I feel like a sell-out, buying votes and selling votes through smart-steem. But why not, no harm right?? Short term, It serves my purposes, I can increase the payout on my posts by

Don't be complicit in Steemit's skulduggery and go in peace, or rather, read and resteem The Church of Piglet's Guidelines, and then go in peace, or in anger, as the case may be. We care so you don't have

What if ONOSocial turns out to be the same as Steemit and .. .. it is fair and does not have vote buying bots and circle jerk I will move to that platform I am sick and tired of this Rigging !

Oh Lord, won't you buy me A big whopping vote Some people are paying But I don't self-promote Worked hard all my time here But still no gravy boat Oh Lord, won't you buy me A big whopping vote Oh Lord,

Don't encourage them, don't be complicit, and go in peace, or rather, read and resteem The Church of Piglet's Guidelines for the Little Steemian, and then go in peace, or in anger, as the case may be.

This was originally going to be a disclaimer on my other post about climbing the Steemit ladder but it got a bit out of hand. I see a lot of complaints on here about vote buying services. Some claim they

NB This is just a slightly edited repost; please vote accordingly. It seemed appropriate to repeat it to draw your attention to this trending load of bollocks. Please follow the link and flag it, for Piglet's

With all the votes that are purchased on a daily basis, how can it be that I've still not found a person willing to debate me on the pros and cons of vote selling? And if there is no one willing to defend

A nice, sturdy post: Olympus Stylus 1s, 110mm, ISO200, f3.5, 1/50s Minutes later, the fat duck started defecating on it, turning it into a shit post. Still, that is better than buying votes; vote buyers

... they should be diligently gathered and earned, not bought. Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/500s Vote buying hurts Steemit and Steemians alike. Repent and mend your ways. Here are some flowers

My Daddy-in-law came this afternoon and handed me this folded paper from a friend that is supposedly meant to buy my dignity and suffrage! My situation can't be considered vote buying though since it came