Hey trafalgar, I agree. I have turned off my posting and autovoter bots who’s pure purpose was to push the buttons of my trolls from old Steem. Such have served their purpose and are no longer needed.
The “old” Steem was full of nonsense and made trolling too easy.
Hell, even old Berniesanders has started to embrace the new Steem economics. Now that’s change!
More to come!
Excellent to hear haejin!
Back then I completely understand your stance and did the exact same thing: If everyone else was just going to abuse the system, then why should I be a sucker and just forfeit my own voting rewards? Why hand over commission to a bid bot to help launder my vote rewards when I can just vote up my own posts? At least that way I wasn't interfering with trending.
But the economy has now armed us all with the tools to shift this thing back in the right direction: where honest curation is the norm. As you can see we're gradually moving out of the dark ages of Steem where bid bots, vote selling, circle jerking and self voting was the norm. Some of the largest bid bots such as OCDB and Smartsteem have completely shifted their business towards curation. Other bid bots have also ceased or are about to cease operating, and the rest are under heavy pressure from downvotes.
Same can be said with circle jerkers etc.
Obviously if we can get a functioning content discovery and rewards platform based on honest votes, then that's ideal for large investors like you and I. There was no hope of changing that in a broken economy back then, but there's every chance we can achieve this now.
Let's curate honestly and fight against others who continue to abuse the system rather than just wasting our downvotes retaliating at those who downvoted us when were self voting (although a lot of your downvoting I agree with, some of those posts are clearly just farm posts and deserve to be 0).
For the first time ever in Steem's history we have a real chance at enforcing honest voting platform wide! This is necessary if Steem is to ever hope achieve it's potential value that you no doubt see as well. Join me in upvoting the best content we can find on here and be rewarded handsomely in curation.
And help me fuck over those who continue to undermine this platform with dishonest voting. Vote sellers, bid bots, circle jerkers etc. Why let them continue to milk this place when others like ourselves have now chosen not to?
Thanks @trafalgar for bringing all of this. I first encounter about economic improvement from your posts. I admit that I am skeptical on this, but this awesome things brings back good days of Steem. Your the coolest guy in this space! Thanks for your patience and staying while the system is broken. Your presence is such a great wealth for this community
Hi trafalgar :)
I have brought this up with a few others today so I guess I may as well chance you >.>
One of the people you would like to fuck over is @me-tarzan
A top twenty monthly earner who doe's not engage with anyone and only upvotes his own posts. This is mostly automated spam crap. Upvoting the comment on his spam posts just before the 7 day window with an alt account which is also doing the same.
I brought this up with others which you see here :
https://steemit.com/busy/@whatsup/a-look-at-your-top-30-paid-authors#@mydogzeus/py78ll
Just find my conversation with @whatsup for more information.
Feels like im flogging a dead horse at this stage so I have done my duty and noooow I give up haha
Thanks for your great support 💯 @haejin @trafalgar
That sounds promising :-)
@haejin welcome to the #newsteem happy to hear you turned it of all. Too many whales waited this chances just for you,but there would be changes because you changed also.
Happy Steeming #newsteem
Great news.
I recall you making some pretty accurate calls regarding alts back in 2017. I took your advice and profited from it. It would be cool if you wrote about what you think how the crypto markets are going to move from time to time.
Right now, Bitcoin is trading in a tightening range and volume is getting small. Which way is your best guess as the where it's going to move? How do you think the upcoming Bakkt launch is going to affect it? Not much has been talked about that lately. Why is everyone this calm about it?