Have you seen the top trending post of right now?
https://steemit.com/steem/@smartsteem/two-ways-to-earn-with-smartsteem-do-the-smart-thing
Now I shouldn't even have to explain why this is awful. But, I do have to. So;
Every time someone buys a vote, the greedy cunt selling you the vote gets more powerful. You see, that greedy cunt gets paid a significant amount in curation rewards to incentivize fair voting. Is selling votes fair? No.
What do you get from buying a vote?
an upvote from a whale that allows you break even, or earn a little profit.
a guarantee that I and many other long-term Steemians will not vote on your post.
What does the greedy cunt selling the vote get?
Now because people are so fucking dumb, I need to go a step further here.
What were both parties getting before the inception of vote-selling?
the whales were getting their curation rewards. But to earn more of them, they had to vote on good content, or at least content that would then be upvoted by more in the community.
the content creators on STEEM were getting FREE UPVOTES, because the whales HAD TO CURATE in order to earn their rewards if they were not posting.
So back to where we are now? What do the whales get again?
the liquid SBD or STEEM you send to them.
the curation rewards from the votes they sell.
AND
So. Vote-selling is extremely short sighted and only makes the ones who have proved themselves unworthy of power more powerful.
Back to the point.
This SmartSteem bullshit wants to make it easier for people to buy and sell votes(apparently). So that is already reason to flag it. But, if you look at who upvoted the post...
Then he was one of the major promoters of that bitconnect scam.
His upvote on this ought to be enough for anyone to realise they should flag it, but if it is not enough for you, consider what I said about votebuying, and go do the right thing. The only thing that can send a powerful message that this type of shit is not going to be accepted.
Or, you can ignore this. Decide not to flag it because you don't want to make an adversary of someone who thinks of you as a lactation device to help them better milk the profits from this platform. You can go back to buying your votes and feeling as though you accomplished anything beyond hurting all our futures. That's what you always fucking do anyway.
To those of you with a spine, you can find the abomination here, and flag it. A resteem of this post is obviously helpful too.
I expect by tomorrow we will either have realised that we "little people" do have some power, as made evident by this post no longer trending. Or, we will have gave the final nod that its okay to sell votes- something that no human would have said openly in any context only a couple of years ago. But, we will still pretend to ourselves that Steemit is a force for a good in this world, even if it is normalizing cuntish behaviour.
I have been let down by this community more times than I care to recall, and yet I am still spending most of my time trying to help you. How about you give me something in return this time around, and conquer your fear long enough to plant a flag where it belongs.
