No they aren't, in order to recover your $15.00 people had to give you an additional $15.00 in votes, these could have been given to some other deserving author and without @haejin's downvote you would have still had your $15.00 so money was lost.But I think it is just a waste of time to try to make people see that.
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Ask haejin why he is downvoting me. I do not expect to get my rewards back, but people have voluntarily supported me. I have given a lot of time to Steem and it seems they value that. Part of the reason I want to get more people on board and powering up is that big accounts will have less influence on the rewards.
See I knew you wouldn't understand, if no one downvoted @haejin he wouldn't downvote anyone. But everyone fails to grasp this, so what happens, you downvote haejin at some point, haejin gets mad at you and downvotes you, frankly to me both are childish attitudes, so his downvote is huge, he takes away $15.00 from you, you have a lot of friends, and I am fine with that I personally read some of your material and I find it OK, but these friends of yours upvote you until you do recover the $15.00 haejin stole from you, now these $15.00 could have been given to some other very deserving person who will get zero becaiuse it is no longer available you were given it twice. Is it your fault that your friends think you deserve to have your rewards refunded? Of course not, and you probably deserved those rewards. But and here is the but, if you and others hadn't started this crap about having the right to downvote others we wouldn't be seeing this kind of shit and rewards would be better distributed, yes you heard that right, rewards are now in the hands of a very small group of people who apparently think Steemit is their personal backyard.
But I do understand. If haejin gives himself multiple full votes every day only he benefits. That is what he did for ages. I don't generally self vote, so others benefit from what SP I gain and I vote for dozens of small accounts. So do other dolphins. We all stand to gain if Steem grows and that is why I do this. Selfishness is counter-productive.
Yes, but still you fail to see that giving yourself full votes 10 times a day is the same thing that is happening now with a group of people voting the same group of people every day, so where did we benefit, instead of haejin getting all the votes we now have 20 people getting all the votes, and I will tell you something whatever they say when the trending page was held by bid bots I usually found a few very good articles, go find a good one now.
You won't find many people who give themselves ten votes each day now as they will generally get downvoted. I rarely look at trending, but there was a lot of junk there before. I would say there is too much crypto stuff there, but I see good creative posts get big votes without paying now.
You have to make change happen if you want it. Yes I know that means having a lot of Steem, but we need fresh investors. You can be an orca for a few thousand dollars. You cannot get that much influence on other platforms for so little. I would invest more if I could.
Anyway, despite what anyone else does you can do what you like to help others.
Not trying to make an argument, but what happens now is the bigger accounts autovote 10 or 20 other big accounts and receive the same amount of autovotes back, looks pretty much like the same thing haejin was doing.