I received a few reports from multiple people about two posts that are in trending right now.
These posts are causing a lot of unrest due to the massive rewards gained by using lots of bots. I've looked at them a few times, although I personally am not a fan, it isn't something I can do anything about.
Apparently, though, I am personally responsible. (I'll spoil the punchline, @buildawhale wasn't even used...)
But hey, I'm an easy target to kick around some more.
I spent a good long while writing my response, I had to edit it 50 times because I am so pissed right now. I'm still not happy with my response, but I haven't slept and I have to go meet the family for breakfast in an hour. It's the best I'm going to get at this point.
This is about your lack of responsibility.
It is not my responsibility to judge good or bad content, I can't go around removing votes because you don't like something. Show me fraud, spam, abuse, scam, then I can do something.
You see any other bot owners spending 1-8 hours a day stopping spam?
I know you are going to say this is abuse, from my bot perspective he put one vote on one post in day, that is not abuse, the fact he used almost every bot is outside of my hands as I can't dictate how many bots he uses. Who is to decide what that number is? What's too much? Again I can't remove a vote because he used 40 bots. I can't remove a vote for disagreement with rewards. The kicker? He didn't even use @buildawhale in the first place.
Wonder Why?
Oh really, they will loose money? I can't see this! A top trending position will bring them hundreds of followers and increase their reputation considerably. Have you thought about that? No you haven't.
I think you mistake me for some village idiot.
But take your time to study and read and think and finally make your decision.
Just because you're unhappy doesn't mean I'm going to just go around unvoting everything you point to. When you messaged me, I put it on my list and will go through it when I start doing my daily abuse research. I've looked at the post many times, and in fact, I saw it before you even told me about it. I have no grounds to do anything about it though. Unvoting a post is reserved for black and white cases of abuse, plagiarism, content theft, fraud.
If this wasn't your business account but your private account, would you upvote such trash, too?
Again, I can't remove votes because I wouldn't upvote something personally, it has nothing to do with anything. Have you seen the garbage on new and trending on a daily basis?
The post in itself hasn't broken any rules (there aren't even any freaking rules for that matter) that I can even use to justify removing a vote.
To top this all off, he didn't even use @buildawhale, likely because he knows I am relentless in fighting spam and abuse.
Feel free to continue to harass me with your accusations. I have better things to do than having to justify myself to you.
You think I am not doing shit?
Everyone one of these users I have personally and manually researched and blacklisted from @buildawhale.
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