That's a shame. It shouldn't be able to get that high if the votes are mostly from one account. I suppose we need someone to get a higher rank and flag him.
I fully expect him to flag this post too, but I felt I had to say something.
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As I keep reading these posts, I am coming to realise I did not fully understand the full implications. I still am against kimjungpoo as I think it was unfair to flag me for an innocent comment; however I did not realise that haejin nearly only voted for himself.
I won't flag him, but I have now removed him from my followed list and will not upvote him in future.
Why is it possible to upvote your own posts?
To counteract flagging perhaps. Even if it was not allowed people could do it using proxies. Some do it purely for profit. I only use it if I get flagged
So if you use it for when u get flagged why do you hold it against haejin when he uses it the same way?
Touché! Okay, but his votes is worth a lot more than mine and he is making thousands each day anyway. He voted up his own comment for $67 before anyone flagged it. I don't go around flagging anyone who disagrees with me. I care about making steemit his for more people and one person voting themselves massive rewards goes against that. I count his rancho votes as self votes too.
His vote is worth more because he has more invested in the platform
As to rancho relaxo he came into play long after the downvotes and racist comments began so his actions are a reply not a cause.
If you want anybody to start giving to the community the community must show its support first not its ugly racist face while making demands of ransom just because somebody is successful. U might not go around flagging but many on the side you represent do(I know you say you represent your own opinions but when a mob attacks you dont stop to ask individuals for thei reason).how do you think my rep is 0 or look at @studgriffin who is now being flagged by sanders and his goons on whatever to whoever he says! I just came across one of his downvoted comments that has nothing to do with this heated discussion.
I think it might be a good idea to decouple self-upvotes from being able to have an impact on boosting your own reputation score, as well as bid-bots. IDK how that would be done, or if it could be done, in a hard-fork? That way, a rich @$$hole can't just come into this space and buy themselves instant "reputation."
I mean, take a guy like @papa-pepper - here from the start, did a lot of hard work, learning how to do good posts, promoting contests, "giving it away" almost as much as he got it. How can some puke like @haejin even be mentioned in the same category as papa pepper? He can't.
The simple fact is that the SteemIt reputation score doesn't really mean a whole lot. Look at @berniesanders. Love him or hate him, most anyone who's been around SteemIt knows something about him. He's also a 'celebrity' on this platform - albeit one who obviously got eaten and spit out by a whale, at some point in his past.