I've been seeing a few similar things my short time here so far- I think if you've got above a certain threshold of influence or steem power it shouldn't count when you use it on yourself- if you want to pay to promote your posts, but upvotes should be used to support others not yourself
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I agree. I'm hoping that this is an exploitation that gets addressed before steemit leaves beta.
Me too- unfortunately I think the bigger problem is the people reposting 150 copy/pasted Wikipedia articles. Just adding noise and trying to work the system that way. It's becoming super hard to find people who actually have something to say !
I've actually only come across one copy paste, and it was a CNN article.
I can understand posting news articles from some other site, at least to some extent. It's that they don't write anything to go along with it that I find disingenuous. And when they post 10-20 of these a day, to me it's just spamming the system.
Right like I can see linking to an article and then maybe giving your opinion or discussing it. But just to post the news article does seem a bit disingenuous.
Oh goodness I found someone copying literally the entire encyclopedia cubject by subject 😑
Oh good grief. Hopefully they weren't getting rewarded for it.