In case someone wonders which post was 'monkey slammed' it's that -> https://steemit.com/steemsilvergold/@silverd510/its-fiesta-tuesday#@ocdb/pyq467
ocdb downvoted with relatively small downvote (see https://steemd.com/steemsilvergold/@silverd510/its-fiesta-tuesday#@ocdb/pyq467 and voting details), some flags followed, but it wasn't a massive bombing. The post retained enough value to be envied by many.
This is the "downvoting trail" that silverd510 cries here about:
Whopping number of 12 accounts that could be followers in the trail. And it's worth noting that those accounts power level is (sorted in order of value, rounded up):
- ocdb has 4.8M SP,
- theycallmedan: 1.1M SP
- threespeak: 1.0M SP
- therealwolf: 0.5M SP
- matt-a: 0.13M SP
- vimm: 20k SP
- lordbutterfly: 11.5k SP
- thevil: 8k SP
- preparedwombat: 6k SP
- traciyork has 5k SP
- slider2990: 0.2k SP
- leocurator, curatorpal: zero, nothing
At 3% downvote one can consider that only first three biggest downvotes were noticeable at all. For example, downvote from matt-a, with his almost 130000 SP is listed on steemit as -0.02$.
But, even after that incredible bombing, the post was left with some value. Here are the rewards that silverd510 got for that post:
That's 7 ST and 7 SP.
Most of that comes from tipU and silver-hammer.
And, for comparison, here's how much silverd510 paid for the tipU upvote on that, which caused ocdb to react:
That's 9 ST.
Paid from silverd510 wallet.
So, if noone else upvoted, and if ocdb downvoted harder, and pushed this post down to zero$, silverd510 could lose full 9 ST.
Of course it didn't happen. In the end, silverd510 earned something like 5 ST in SP. But he could lose that 9 ST instead of having guaranteed income from vote bought from tipU.
Now, question to all readers. You hate bots, or love them. You hate self-votes, or not. You agree with ocdb or not. Alright! But take that aside from a moment, and think about someone who
[ha]ve been in business for nearly 30 years
who enters rage-mode and starts writing articles calling others
gutless assholes
for 9 ST, worth close to $1.25, that he did not lose?
I'm guilty here of a small misinformation, because silverd510 also referred to his "two (...) friends (...) [that] got slammed by the ignorant assholes trying to promote their quality content". They might have lost much more, and silverd510 may be furious about his friends being hit and not about that 9 ST, but I cannot assess that - account names were not disclosed.
Obviously, this guy doesn't know what "slammed" means, much less 30 years of business experience.
Those posts would have been easily zeroed had one or two more parties chose to jump in. Hell, plenty of folks receive full strength Rancho downvotes for less.
Maybe you should look at the other two posts that had payouts over $8 that got downvoted to a $3 post as well.
I dont shit post so if i want to try and promote myself with my Steem there shouldn't be an issue. But the pure ignorance of these downvote trails is wrong.
Don't disagree, but that's just ordeal now. Forcing the "bots" into some sort of manual curation versus selling votes all the time.
Mistakes can happen. Without looking deeper, most people would think you are part of a circlejerk.
What I'm saying is...it could be worse.