You admitted to not mentioning to farming post rewards through ghostwritten content and you were only caught doing this cause the people selling you this content were plagiarising it, so you were scammed trying to scam curators here of their votes. I gave you a chance to explain yourself and bothered finding out if you were unjustly being downvoted but turns out you're just a maximizer trying to farm rewards with no effort through schemes. Who knows how much rewards you've farmed this way in the past before you were caught. Instead of apologizing for your scheme and saying you won't be doing that again you decided to instead question the curation on hive of content/authors and pick on other things I was talking about rather than the issue at hand.
Sorry to have wasted voting power and time on you. Good riddance.
FUCK OFF.
The Scamer, as you put it, was a local Vietnamese resident who lives and works in Vietnam, a student. I hired them to write about local places for a web page I was working on as they have better inside information then I do. To recipe my costs on paying them, and to build more content for HIVE I posted the content. Nothign wrong with that. No one was taken advantage of. Farming rewards my ass. I would pay them more then I earn.
Nothing wrong with that. Its not a scam, its not fooling anyone.
FUCK you do it. YOu have a few ghost account you upvote.
Even if true, ghost writing is not a crime, its not illegal, its not plagiarism. SO, cause I mess up, I should be kick off HIVE ??? FUCK THAT.
How many articles have I written that is good, how many people did I on board? That all is worth nothing I guess.
FUCK OFF You are the problem with HIVE, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM BRO.
Given the long pause from our latest conversation it seems you didn't wanna take time to reflect on what occurred here and rather go on the offensive, I'll be countering your downvotes as this isn't acceptable.
You fried the first shot, down voting and then sequentially down voting me a second time because you didn't like my response I gave you, and then a third time accusing me of scamming and taking advantage of the system. It's a hurtful, shamefull words that you should not say to anybody but you accuse me of that. I Have a longstanding history here, great memories, and part of the Community I don't need bullshit from you. There are many more voices rising up against tyrants such as yourself. I don't care about the votes anymore and down vote me all you want that doesn't mean shit. People only don't stand up to you because they're scared you will down vote them. It's a shameful dictatorship you have promoted on this blockchain.
You could end this now by apologizing and backing down. Or we can keep going to tell it's okay. Your call Buddy
Can you look at the facts instead of reaching for your feelings?
You don't acknowledge that you made it clear content wasn't being written by you, content you were earning rewards on, potentially being curated by people and projects, potentially making a profit. What you care or don't care or what you did or didn't or planned on doing with the rewards is all void cause we can't know and can't find out.
You only got downvoted and reported when a ghostwriter handed you content they had plagiarised meaning we don't know how long this scheme lasted, how many posts you were rewarded for and how long you would've kept this up had that not occurred. Being lenient on something like this would just encourage others to do the same, say others with higher stake or in charge of a lot more voting power taking rewards from the pool through some kind of middleman fee when instead the author who initially created the content could've joined and posted it themselves.
There's been other cases as I mentioned of this and I had no sympathy for a curator in my own project being found having done this, so no I'm not going to play nice and give you the benefit of the doubt when you yourself admit to no wrongdoing and question curation of the platform instead and throw accusations my way.
Another case a ghostwriter google-searched the content they had handed over and found it on hive (then steem) and joined the platform themselves and started writing here, the author operating this scheme was also dealt with.
Hive and blockchain tech is about removing the middleman from the equation, I can't believe this is something you considered to be okay to begin with and kept on defending over the course of our discussion and your rage filled actions just prove you're even more stubborn on wanting to die on this hill.
Whatever great intentions you had and however original and yours your current content is doesn't change the fact that me or my project most likely has curated ghostwritten content you may or may not have profited from, thus I'm downvoting and will be doing so for a while, if others disagree with my actions they can counter my downvotes like I'll be doing with yours seeing them coming from a purely retaliation standpoint.
Again, you engage in slander.
Ghostwriting is ok; it's not an issue. People vote on CONTENT, not on the PERSON. If they only vote for the person, or as you said you do, "only glance and vote on it based on the person," you are acting like a bot, and that does nothing for the blockchain or the content creators but inflates egos.
It's not deceiving anyone.
Point to where in the TOS of HIVE that ghostwriting is stealing or scamming from HIVE, where is this unwritten rule spelled out? I will then admit I am wrong and move on. HIVE does not have a TOS; you are making up rules you think are just, then insulting people, hurting them, and others with childlike behavior.
As for removing the middle man, bro, you are the middle man; You have 2 large delegations from 2017 from dead accounts. Without them, you would be nothing on this chain. Get off your high horse for a second and look at yourself, be grateful for what you have, and just be chill.
But no, you won't; that is not what people like you do. You assume you are right cause you are proper up by wealth. Then on whims that are absurd, hand out edicts that you feel are just.
There is no HILL to die on bro, you are making it a conflict. You can de-escalate this at any time cause I am only getting started. I am meeting your force with equal force and will not bow to your police state attitude of silence.
Your call on what your want to do, Peace or more drama and stress that will in the end hurt HIVE and everyone. Will you be like Russia and do war? I think you will.
I've told you at least twice now, including my original comment that it's not "only" for the person but both are in the equation, some times a person could write a shitpost as well that doesn't mean I'd curate them based on the name and history behind it alone. Some times it may seem they barely had any engagement on a post or they've been a bit farmy lately, etc, there's many factors behind my curation which is only manual. I don't go around throwing bloaty dust votes like you seem to have been doing while most of your stake was delegated away.
Not mentioning that you didn't write the content you're posting on your personal blog is not deceiving anyone? Really?
Ask others what they think about it? Why would I make something like this up and jeopardize my own reputation just to hurt yours? Why would I be here explaining myself and the situation if I just wanted to fuck you over and why would I have landed here in the first place asking what happened if it wasn't to try and help you out?
Instead you go on these rants and threaten with retaliation and stuff, get a grip.
You're the one making an issue about a one-time instant that happened more than 6 months ago. Since then I've been writing all my own stuff taking my own pictures and engaging, believe me or not that's up to you. I had enough drama dealing with that ghost riding issue for the first time so why would I risk doing it a second time? I don't know? It's not like I need the money here I make perfectly good money online doing multiple other things, and day trading dwarfs would it make on this platform at least 100x.. Yes I use Auto voting Bots if you want to get mad at me about that well then change the code. And now you want to slander me and say that I'm still doing other things...
So despite my personal belief go striving is not a crime, I'm not engaging in it, and you can't prove that I am engaging it (something I am not) . So unless you want to get mad at me for something that happened over 6 months ago and keep dragging this out. That's up to you.
OK dad, your the a hole who started this. You take time and reflect.
Fucking dick
It's just a couple bucks of downvotes, wonder what you'd do if you lost thousands, guess we won't find out.
It's not the money. I don't care about the money. I care about my name being slandered. I care about my reputation being insulted. I care that people like you come along I think they could boss people around just because they have a lot of delegated power to them. That's what I care about Buddy
Okay before you continue raging you realize you have been well rewarded by hive and curators in the past, right? Just cause you're now doing something many others deem frowned upon and against Hive curation doesn't mean you should just continue receiving rewards in all eternity. I literally checked on you to make sure it wasn't a @hivewatchers overdone case where they were downvoting you just cause you hadn't appealed or something after everything you've done on Hive I figured you deserved a second chance and I was stepping up to counter the downvotes if you now had learned your lesson and were going back to using the account for your own content.
Instead all I hear is some bullshit about how certain accounts are overrewarded based on their Hivepower holdings only and how people are just trying to suck up to them, how you think content should be curated based off of content alone which should make it okay to continue this ghostwriting scheme you got caught with even though I mentioned many times that myself and many others don't agree with having people ghostwrite content when many of our votes aren't just cast based off of content alone but also trust on the authors and their activities. This trust is now broken from my side and reading what you're saying it's pretty clear that you don't care what others think and want to remain stubborn that ghostwriting should be allowed and rewarded. Somehow you can't fathom how quickly that could get out of hand (let's create 5000 accounts, hire 1000 ghostwriters and pay them a fraction of what I can upvote those accounts or get them to receive support through other means to make a profit off of my literal farm).
Now you're just burning your last bridges and thankfully words here are immutable so others can see what went down. Good luck with your retaliation and whatever else you're thinking of now while throwing a hissy fit.
The user also created a lot of fake accounts that engaged in identity deception/identity theft.
They were also name-squatting accounts that he intended to sell for insanely inflated prices to these real people after "onboarding" them.
Now is trying to sell them for even more insane amounts.