Be honest here. How is the payout amount of this post not abuse? Small players get kicked around, even when they have a good quality blog post. And this post has an upvote value of almost 100 USD????? Oh and I see that the fanatic downvoters like to upvote you, so there is that.
Must be nice to have build up your account with bots, then lock everyone out from using them while you can get good curation rewards because of the amount of Steem you gathered.
But please don't call this 'ethical'.
i didn’t use bots all that often myself.
I am not locking anyone out of bots. They are free to use them but the current stance of the community will result in flags just for using bots.
How is it abuse? I didn’t vote it to $100. I didn’t buy a vote. I made a post, the community voted.
Well, you did get Steem because you had a bot. And you downvote people when they use upvote bots. Not just the community, but you yourself.
The community that is upvoting you is in large part a small group of people with a lot of Steem power and you are upvoting each other all the time.
Now I'm not against all this. Just don't like double standards.
I do not downvote people for using bots. I downvote for spam and abuse, regardless if bots were used.
You just downvoted me for giving my opinion here a few minutes ago. How was my comment spam or abuse?
I downvoted it because it was a duplicate comment. I didn't downvote your first.