No one is defeated. There is still plenty of time for others to get votes, especially if they decide to use alternate accounts and incentived voting too. Don't forget that there is also two second prizes. This is not about sore losing as you and eltooni are attempting to portray. This is about the integrity of our platform, which trueflip were nice enough to use to host their competition.
Whether Tim can vote exactly how he wants is irrelevant. No one is asserting that he needs permission. But, the question on my mind, and I imagine any one else's who feels this to be unbecoming, is should someone who has been delegated 250,000 SP by a whale really be using all of that power to rig a competition, most likely for a cut of the "winnings?" I would think that someone with 250,000 SP, which has been gifted to him, might consider using that power to help people, rather than use it to essential steal a prize pot from others who have put in more effort and probably need the money more. I suppose who it is stolen off is irrelevant also, but the fact that this is what he chooses to use all of his voting power to do, is not in any way admirable. It is greedy and selfish, and not how you treat fellow human-beings.
I don't know what you got for jumping to his defense, but I hope it was worth your self-respect.
dude...i couldnt have said it any better, this was exactly what ive been thinking. hah. good job son of satire. your my hero. lol.
man , you are a trippy guy ! agree to your ideals ! nice update on your contest entry by the way, this voting is fucked up lol , as a minnow you cannot do that without kissing a whale's ass . Seems like its monarchy and patriarchy of whales on steemit , where people are being downvoted by whales to render their blogs useless, another contest i had entered here totally ignored my entry , and here its like a totally rigged voting . Have you seen the amounts of financial & power disparity that cryptocurrency can create ?? no. 1 is a nice entry , ok sure , but WTF ??? so the voting winners get 15 BTC i.e. basically the person who is best at twisted-hustling !!! and the team vote and another entry will get 7.5 BTC !! Its also a pattern , how the ACTUAL artists will always be kept underpaid and under-classed , than the hustlers and the business class who actually only have ass-kissing skills disguised as communication skill. Implying that if you know how to sugar coat things or curb /filter your real inner thoughts , and speak/type/comment only in a specific " NICE " way , imposing through encouragement, a sever attitude check on the subjects of your royal whales !!! Believe me i have NO issues with authority, as long as the authority figures can do their JOB and be FAIR !!!!
ALL THAT SAID , i DO not think that that @eltooni did anything unjust or unfair or out of the rules to be honest !!! the whale must genuinely think that it IS INFACT the best artwork !!!!! that seems to be the logic behind it all !!! All that you are suggesting here is that this whale who is doing that , has shitty choice in artwork , lol !!!
I guess by commenting this way , i may have caught the eye of some whale who may now flag my post or hide it or downvote my already broke-ass blog , lol !!! In my first 3 weeks of joining, NO way so far has my experience on steemit been "FAIR" ... AT ALL !!! It almost feels stupid to do the right things !! but also , sooner or later you must realize that this is also the name of the game in real life outside of steemit too !!!
Thanks for this comment. I was told by a lot of people not to say anything, because to do so would no doubt ruin any chances of me taking a runners up prize.
The thing is though, I knew that once I read these distasteful comments that I simply couldn't abide by it. Some things are more important than money. In fact, most things are more important than money, and I'm just as disappointed in all the people who voted for a shitty, lazy entry in order to gain a couple of dollars, as I am with the conspirators themselves.
But yeah, man. I have been called an idiot about 20 times today by all my family, as they really think I should have remained quiet. So, I am very happy to read that at least one person thinks it was the correct decision.
definitely man. Most things are more important than money. Such as playing fair in a competition/contest, sticking up for whats right, helping others/sticking up for others etc. Appreciate you saying something. Honestly I doubt that saying something about this will ruin your chances at getting a runners up prize.. Atleast I am hoping that TrueFlip will notice that this isn't fair and maybe even change the voting method. Since it is pretty obvious what is going on. lol. There are a lot of good entries, its very unlikely that 75%+ of voters would all vote for one entry unless they were getting something out of it, with all the other good entries they could vote for.
Good job licking his butt and flagging others.
You are so true