I'm new here. I read a post within my first days talking about a 'guild' to help new people get their content seen. It's not paying to vote, but I guess it's the same principle where a vote goes away and and votes come back regardless of the content! After a few days in joining and upon further reflection I felt the use of a guild was inauthentic and I would just wait for my posts to be seen organically. However, I have removed myself from the guild and I still get the up-votes... So, before I go out of my way to find out how to stop receiving these; I'd love to know your opinion on guilds @krnel. I'm wanting to understand a bit more about this culture and its social norms.
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Well it's other people voting for you, for whatever reason they have. You make something to sell, produce content, and they buy it with an upvote which allocates some rewards. I would also like all my votes to be authentic and honest appreciation for the value of the content, but I can't know that. So just take the upvotes, since you can't really know. If you want to get out of those votes, then go ahead and try to contact them on steemit.chat to get removed, that is your right to ask, but they can also keep voting you ;) It's commendable you want to get real meaningful votes from ppl who like your content, rather than just trying to support a "newbie". Good principle to live by!
Perfect, thank you for the knowledge and the advice. :) I guess I'll just take the votes and try to be worthy of them :)