I want to apologize to everyone who signed up to follow the @humanbot vote trail on Steemauto.com with the understanding I would only be upvoting posts that received the Badge of Originality as Human Certified Original Works. Over the last two days I have accidentally upvoted a meme post which was certainly not original nor creative with this account; and a comment on a contest nomination post. In both cases I thought I was logged in as my @carlgnash account. Unfortunately removing the upvote does not seem to stop the incoming trailing votes.
I will be much more careful in the future and I am truly sorry for this abuse of your trust. It was unintentional, but that is really no excuse. It will not happen again.
Cheers - Carl "Totally Not A Bot" Gnash
(@carlgnash)
Good man, I'm sure all is forgiven (unnoticed) already 😊
forgiven
Honesty is the best policy!
Removing votes is goofy though, you don't get the vote power back, instead it gets burned. I sometimes got mixed up on esteem with the level of my vote, and I would try to cancel the vote and put less percentage. Well in the end I am just wasting more voting power.
Cheers Carl!
Yeah I was aware of that aspect, but I was kind of hoping against hope that if I removed the upvote maybe the trailing votes wouldn't come in. But they did. I figured better to address it openly and honestly than hope people didn't notice. I know I would be more than a little upset myself if I signed up to follow a vote trail that promised to only reward truly original creative posts, and I found out my vote had gone to boost a comment in a contest nomination post. Oops. Mea culpa.
This happens to me as well Carl, especially when I go to comment on something as myself and then it posts from the Team Australia account. Whoops.
Hey no problem, don't worry about it.