What a poor research, you are mostly framing completely legit actions with dubious sounding words like "grey area", "sneaky" and combining different things which are not related to each other.
E.g. self-voting is not forbidden (depending on the circumstances), leasing is not forbidden, upvoting each other?
The values of these votes are ridiculous compared to the self-voting happening in large scale by the whales. I suggest to turn your attention where it really matters.
It is so easy to kick someone with a small stake, try to do it where it is more appropriate and leave engaged users alone.
Why are you hiding under an alt account, by the way?
Who is the whale that is self-voting? Please post the name of the account in the response.
I mean the witness-votes, most of the whales don´t spend their precious time with blogging :)
In that case, what you just said is pure bullshit, right?
Don’t do that. Lies stay on the blockchain and you lose credibility.
Witness vote has nothing to do with self-voting your own blog.
Where did I say that witness voting has anything to do with self-voting? I say the top witnesses vote themselves (for witness) in a kind of circle jerk behavior.
Again that has nothing to do with current discussion.
Also it is totally okay to have an opinion on witness voting, but my question is what are you going to do about it?
Nothing, my long-term plan is to become whale by myself (if Hive survives that long).
Just joking, I have no clue what to do about it and how to change this oligarchy. But to stomp on small fish can´t be the solution.
Who is stomping on the small fish?
Again, please provide a response with name/names.
Let me help you with answering: you can’t come up with names. You just like to make sensational empty comments.
PS. I just checked your account, you are nearly a whale yourself. Generally, roughly 500K HP is considered a whale. For all practical purposes you are one.
So, are you talking about yourself when you are whale bashing? :)