having access to blockchain data makes everything more transparent. its sad when people try to game the system but it seem here on steemit, the more someone has, the more they will try and game things.
I have never been a fan of bidbots. I do very much encourage entrepreneurship and when these bots started to appear, I did think, well that's entrepreneurial spirit but I was also aware that in reality the only person to win, was the bidbot owners
Now @smartsteem are using their own bot that others have to pay for. Not only are the profiting from the bids. This is not entrepreneurial spirit, but very scam like behavior.
another bot, bot owner and witness just lost my respect....
take a look at most of the bot owners, they cap the gains (some without even telling you)... I work in the financial sector and if people could lost their shirt but were limited to 10% on gains, that exchange would go out of business... Same thing will happen here at some point... Soon people will realize that they are overpaying, or worse get tired of it and go away, and then these bot owners will have to change their deals. I hope people remember who was who during this time. I don't care if someone wants to make a profit, but don't pretend to be on the side of the community (or people)... These guys are almost to a person, boughtt and paid for by the whales doing their bidding. They are the middlemen taking their small slice to enable the pigs to gorge at the trough.
Hence the continued focus on the delegators in many replies.
They don't care about the bidders, it's just a matter of keeping the large delegator happy.
And if that means breaking the rules listed on your website, and sending non-visible bids, then so be it.
I'm glad you see it... Now if more would that would be fantastic! Thanks for doing your part Asher!
So true! Unfortunately, I don't think we have much of a future as a community if people keep delegating their SP to bots. I wish I had more SP to push your comment back to the top as it was but hey you will just have to settle for my few cents ;)
@paulag
All delegators to smartsteem have been paid accordingly - and of course this isn't shown on the blockchain because it happened internally in a database.
I never said delegators were not paid, however the actions here break the rules as laid down by smartsteem.
How can you justify that it is okay for you to break the rules that you set? Answer that question honestly
Of course I will answer this question honestly.
I believe in rules, when they make sense.
The 30 minute curation rule is in place to protect bidders from abusive users who are bidding in the last minute.
In my case - I only wanted to promote my post as fast as possible to help users who have no clue why Steemit was showing old data.
And since I was the only buyer for that part of the vote - I gave myself 0% ROI and promoted the post.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@therealwolf/did-we-develop-a-time-machine
And no - I will not remove the vote, because I paid for it.
I think you should change the name of the bot....I nominate the name 'One Rule' lol. What you have said is no justification. You have entry to a system that is not open to public use and you have abused the privilege.