Pulling from the pool to finance things was frowned upon from very early on.
Steemsports used to take the votes of the whales and spread those curation rewards to the little people.
All you had to do was vote on the winner, and bam, much more than a redfish could get for posting.
'They' shut that down when they noticed that the redfish were growing too fast and 'their' moar was decreasing.
I guess I missed the dustup you referenced, how long ago was it?
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WHO decides what's right or wrong?
We do.
If you participate with us.
Otherwise, folks will do it without you.
If we waited for others to flag abuse, the bots would have won by now.
Hi @antisocialist
Thanks for responding...
I'm not sure I agree with this entirely... I've seen many real-world (charity and private) projects being funded from the reward pool. If memory serves, there's even a project building houses in Venezuela for Steemians/Hivers.
Either way... I didn't know about the Steemsports situation.
P.S. Are you part of HW? If I'd got a response like this on the HW discord originally, the "conversation" between myself and them would have gone way differently... would have probably even (begrudgingly) accepted my fate and gone away quietly.
Well, I DO (USED to when I was more active on the chain anyway) participate in the various discords. Have had lengthy chats with Spaminator originally, and @playdice was even whitelisted. My HW woes started out of the blue, and without warning, and the "flag the last 7 days posts while we're at it" flags came in after @PlayDice had been OFF for 3 days already and I'd tried to approach them for a discussion, but all I was able to get from them was an (incorrect, IMO) "vote-buying allegation".
As I mentioned it was actually HW having a problem with soliciting votes and splitting the liquid rewards with random voters, similar to Steemsports.
In short: I've accepted that HW has the power to end the game and they're not willing to discuss any opposing viewpoints. So in the absence of my buying a ton of HP to counter them, there's no point even trying.
I DO still have a problem though with a single entity having all the power to make such unilateral calls though... There are more than enough people that WOULD love to see @PlayDice trickle some rewards through to them, but because we're all small stakeholders there won't be any discussion on the matter... and THAT's not cool :-(
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P.S. I just noticed that @usainvote has downvoted this very post to 0, 3 days after it was posted... so it's not an automated thing, and he/she/they have no discord or posts/comments on-chain either to get in touch.
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