If you are selling your vote through a delegation service, you are losing money. You will make more money by voting your hive power than by delegating it. How do you think the middlemen make their money?

Still not seeing the disconnect here. We, 'the community' routinely crush little people trying to finance their schemes with the rewards pool, but we let the largest and probably oldest keep trucking along

The people most wanting to profit from hive are buying it. They buy votes, too. Why wouldn't they? It leverages more hive to them for less work. The rub is that in order to 'profit' from buying and leveraging

The reward pool is intended to reward creators. IF people would leave well enough alone that would be great. But, there are ways to game this design. One of them is to sell your vote power and not have

Vote selling makes this game less attractive to the masses. It corrupts those selling. It empowers those willing to buy power. At one point the consensus was that we would fork the chain to run off all

Hey, what happened to all the pay to play haters? We ran the one I won't name from the platform for selling his votes. We put a 'legitimate' business owner out of business(he's the one flagging this post).

I always felt there is something fishy about long time steem-hive user crypto.piotr, his never ending spamming (with 0.001 Hive TX) to my wallets, and his pompastic, loudly advertised "Project Hope

Some of you oldschoolers may still remember the EIP and all the changes it brought forth to our platform, of course some stakeholders preferred to just ignore it but after the hivefork it became even less

We forked to put an end to vote selling. We did it before hive even existed. We all mostly agreed vote selling is bad. So, what the hell are you doing delegating for profit? If you delegate for a return,

One component of the upcoming hard fork 21 is the Economic Improvement Proposal (EIP), explained in technical detail here on the @steemitblog and here in layman's terms by @justineh. The goal of these

I hope to be a dolphin soon thanks to Minnowbooster. I’m now Making 1 SBD per day while I sleep: I signed up for “Voteselling” as long as my Voting Power is over 98%.... (when I’m sleeping) I set it so

Going to Give this a Try and see if I do as well with this system ... Anyone do a comparison between Delegation and Selling Votes ?

Smartsteem has a tool for selling your votes. Just authorize your account with smartsteem using steemconnect and set your power limit that you want to stop voting after reach that percentage . You can

I found an interesting article I’d like to share with Steemians with a reason. Vote selling was a well known practice already in the ancient Rome: Since most voters saw elections as irrelevant to their

When I heard of vote buying the first time I dismissed it as scammy behaviour, self-voting was another thing that was mentioned in the same breath and I had another meaning of that as I have generally

Invite your friends and other users to Smartsteem and receive 0.5% profit of every sold vote by them. Have you tried vote selling yet? Click the banner below and join up on Smartsteem. Let me know

I was looking at several upvote bots for the last few days and i found smartsteem. At first i was like what is this and then i was like this is amazing. I went on to there website and looked around for

Do you want to sell your votes? Try it here: You are giving SBD for selling your votes. SBD paid is depending on the amount of your voting power.

I get why you would want the no effort rewards. No, really. We all want something for nothing. Con Mises spawned a whole branch of economics with that goal in mind. Many, many (oxy)morons, inspired by