'Anyone who knows how to code' is a pretty narrow criteria. It certainly does not to apply to at least 90% of new users.
This is @l0k1 in a new, minnow account, by the way. I get 4 votes a day before I have nearly no power in this account. A self vote on 4 posts a day and I can't support anyone else's work. As the account history of @l0k1 will amply demonstrate, I built up nearly 15,000 steem power by supporting other people's work over a 6 month period. Anyone who was following my advice about engaging with the audience, which does not include self voting, also has massively improved their financial situation.
"It certainly does not to apply to at least 90% of new users."
But, I'm pretty sure 90% of new users know how to make a second account. In fact, I reckon 100% of them do, and I bet they can even click the transfer button too, or run a delegation script... rendering any self-voting witch hunt completely pointless.
How do you plan to address users simply creating another account?
why would it matter if users create a second account? are u worried that Bitcoin users create second bitcoin wallets?!?!?!
You can just make money upvoting your own posts froom more and more new accounts!
The new accounts barely give u a dollar of ffree steempower, so evenif u created 100 new accounts you could only give yourself a few CENTS at most per post!
What dont you minnos understand aboit steempower?
why do u all think this is reddit or youtube where u can create upvote bots and View bot This isnt redit or youtube, this is a blockchain
in ordder to get upvotes that earn u any money, the acouunts upvoting must have a good amount of steempower! And why would u disperse all ur steempower between 1000 new accounts when u can keep it all in ONE account and just upvote your ownposts with THAT mainacount which would give u tne same result AND save u time!??!
dont u see? dont u see?!?!?! cant u see how this alll works!?!?! u ccant cheat on steemiT! u CANT!
I feel like you totally missed the point here. The topic is making a bot to flag people who self-vote. This will never work because anyone can make a second account and just vote themselves from that account instead. Or, they can trade votes with someone else with similar Steem Power.
All this would do is make people create vote trading circles, or make people power down, transfer to another account so they aren't "technically" self-voting, then vote themselves up with their sock puppet.
The rest of your post is off topic.
EXACTLY! U build up steempower by SUPPPORTING OTHERS!
i have beeen TRYING to tell all these selfish people "Ask not what steemit can do for you,ask what you can do for steemit"
be Service to Others not Service to Self
When u are worrie about your own account balance peopel can tell and they get turned off!
When u are AONLy worrying about helping others, peopel like that! and u will benefit yourself!
Yes man THAN you for ALSO explaining how a self vote from a second account wont do much unles that second account has stempower which SOOMEONE has to buy! U cant just create vote bots like reddit or view bots like youtube! To make money here on steemit SOMEONE with steempower has to upvote u! and steempower isnt free like karma on reddit , its like bitcoin, noonees gonna jst give out free bitcoins anymore! same with steem!
anyway yes PLEASE getthis through your foollowers heads that ENGAGING WITH THE AUDIENCE is what helpes you! upvote al ur commenters and respons to them with upvoting minnows walls and showing them you did it! like this!
for anyone watching, see how i just upvoted all of @elfspice rrecent posts and took a screenshot and showed him? And my upvotes are woorth 1 cent at current power so att least its something!
to a minnow givving them a few cents per post is great! it shows that things are happening at least!
Now, I just followed you! ccuz i see i have already been following your other accountt l0ki! so bravo and keep spreading the light of trth to brn through the fog of ignorance!
toooo many people here who thin they haveiit all figured out!
This aiint no democracy and it aint no commune! I wish minnows would understand the perspective of whales who SACRIFICED MILLIONS of dollars that they COULD have made with ethereum, JUST to support steemit, and they get ATTACKED for fucking making a TINY but of money when they COUL have made 1000 times as much with ethereum! And these minnows have the NERVE to coplain about whales making "too much money" ??? I know u are an oldschool whale who joined a year ago so u must have alot to say about this! u should explainto more minnows how much whales have lost from NOT cashing out and just invsting in ethrum..JUST to suppport steemit.....and how if u have the steempower YOU DESERVE the money EVENif u have to self vote! they are YOUR upvotes and u deserve to do whatevr ru want with em!
No good deed goes un punished!
You're missing the whole point, you can transfer Steem to any account you make. The only delay would be a one-time power down.