Remember the post about some of the bidbots being prohibited from voting posts?
https://steemit.com/steem/@grumpycat/warning-to-vote-buyer-sellers-introducing-grumpycompliance-mandatory-in-14-days-no-post-promotion-allowed-after-3-5-days
He even had bidbot operators and owners outside of his threat list obeying his dictates out of fear.
See how much this post got?
Now checkthisout: https://steemit.com/steemtrading/@checkthisout/steem-ta-for-next-weel-bull
Thank Grumpycat/checkthisout for the SBD and STEEM correction after they skyrocketed.
The comments and the votes on them in the link.
Is it better than buying or selling votes?
Is it not shortsighted reward farming?
And what did troglodactyl do?
He only removed the income from the below 50SP users trying to make a few cents.
What did transisto do?
What did Iflagtrash/yougotflagged/berniesanders/rewardpoolrape/eatsrewards/sockpuppet/the.bot/nextgencrypto do?
The same, on a smaller scale, while spamming other people's threads to make sure he does not keep it a secret.
What did steemcleaners do?
Patrice is aware about it, since she brought it to my attention, but what did steemcleaners, patrice, mack-bot, spaminator do?
Upvote themselves, each other and cheetah, while announcing this:
https://steemit.com/witness/@patrice/notice-using-steem-to-create-accounts-to-proxy-vote-will-get-you-flagged
Again, these players act only against small players, often for bad reasons with little to none good justifications to their actions.
They downvote news aggregation services like bitcoinhub, neocoinalert, moneronews, litecoinhub, etc.
Why?
They only keep a charade of fighting spam, while rarely even fighting the smaller cases.
Remember the high powered user with a platoon of accounts here complaining about another user receiving upvotes from another, less high powered high powered user and downvoting the upvote receivers' posts?
He has another account, rewardpoolrape which is still abusing the post rewards, randomly automatically spamming the blockchain, and receiving upvotes from a few of his other accounts.
This is the result.
Instead of these account owners being lynched out of existence, they receive upvotes and compliance.
This is most of your fault.
Obviously I do not refer to the handful that downvoted them.
These people do not deserve a downvote only for for their bad posts, they deserve a constant flow of downvotes, discouraging them from ever posting again.
This lesson is in tact outside of STEEM too, and one of my first 10 posts here dealt with this issue in general, not just within this platform.
I am not an Anarchist.
I just hate tyrants, corruption and abuse of power.
I wonder what the founders thought when they let this person premine, and if you wonder about why I use this word, it is because I read that one of the early preminers got his stake taken from him by some last moment shenanigans by the founder/s.
I doubt if he even has an account here now.