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RE: Introducing the Steem Defender Bot. Designed to Protect Steem From Economic Collapse and Support Minnow Growth (Article)

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It's hilarious that you're talking about "upvote bots" yet using them as often as possible to upvote your own posts.

I suggest you reconsider this hypocrisy. FYI - on Friday I'll have enough SP back to counter all of your purchased hypocritical votes.

It's also hella rude for you to flag those bots comments just to try to hide them from your post considering they're the ones providing all of your rewards.

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Out of all the accounts, I hope that you take this one out first. People may not like you, but you are my hero for calling them out on their shit. Everyone else just sees dollar signs and stays quiet. I don't like scammers, and spammers, and I appreciate what you do.

You are a witness to believe in @nextgencrypto

With love,
shello

"Out of all the accounts, I hope that you take this one out first."

The ability of a whale (or anybody bigger than you) to 'take out an account' is why A. serious authors won't invest their time/effort into steem and B. Steem will never hit mass adoption.

Applauding that behavior is not, in my opinion, in any way supporting Steemit.

Serious authors offering genuine content have nothing to fear. Offering bogus "fixes" to "problems" with totally contrived nonsense, however....
I like to think of the user base on this platform to be its own immune system. The people in this post who are heavily opposed to this idea are people who know what they're doing, and most have done it for years now. Their methods may be....interesting....but the point is they react based on the knowledge they have, not because they don't like outsiders or whatever bullshit. Whether or not it looks like it, they've got the platform's best interests in mind here. Ultimately, if someone doesn't want their account "taken out", then it's best not to do something detrimental or scammy to the system. That's pretty much the gist of it.

"Serious authors offering genuine content have nothing to fear."

That's absurd (or at best, false).

Anybody with more clout than their target can end an account.

See @kerriknox's account. Rep from 60+ to -1, earnings per post from $100+ to $0 because she can't post anything because that the downvoter with 300kish steem downvotes it.

It's great to knock down plagerizers etc. Good.

But am I going to rent delegated SP to increase my visibility etc to speed up my account growth/not waste content with no viewers etc just to have berniesanders or equivalent downvote me because he sees I rented delegated SP or did some selfvoting and downvotes all my ' purchased hypocritical votes'? (or some other guy with some other 'self votes' are bad justification)?

Nope. So I, having been here for a couple months wanting to really like steemit, being a content creator in my own business, am going to keep my content building there and am not going to risk wasting time/effort here.

'I' am irrelevant. I say the above because, again, serious content producers aren't going to stick to a platfrom that is so risky, and mass adoption certainly isn't going to happen while it's so risky.

Then I must be in some way privileged, because I don't find it absurd at all. During the time I've been here - since July of last year - I've been flagged only 4 or 5 times at most, and those were usually either bot downvotes for whatever mathematically random reason that didn't amount to any damage, or because someone just disagreed with some trivial thing that was said, kind of as if one of us were to flag the other of us just because we disagreed. It's lame, but it's allowed. I've just avoided the drama and done pretty well, I suppose. I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm not unhappy with what this place has done for me since I've been here. So perhaps it just depends on the perspective we each have and what value we assign to this place on a personal level. I've got art and photography and music for days, so I just keep posting.

So from your perspective, an author with a rep of 60+ and $100+/post having their account destroyed by a single individual is what exactly?

Do you think that steemit is going to thrive when anybody's hard work can be wiped out with no protections or recourse?

Also, you did notice that your 'has nothing to worry about' claim has been proven false, yes?

One has to wonder: what about the post is drawing flags? I have yet to really see someone get flagged for no real reason, as if done by some of the low-rep bots I've seen that do it randomly.

Ultimately, everyone is free to vote however they like. And this has proven to be quite the divisive truth, seeing as how the power of the vote is dependent on the user's level of wealth - literally. Being on the bottom end of that deal is not necessarily the best in the world, and I get that. I'm down here too. My vote means virtually nothing - maybe 6 cents right now. But if you're telling me that anyone can randomly be downvoted by a large whale for absolutely no reason and be obliterated when it happens, I'd have to say I don't agree with that because I and many others who post non-divisive posts don't generally experience that. When you post an opinion, you're going to get people who disagree. That's just a fact of having opinions. It's guaranteed some people will disagree. And with a system where everyone has an up and a downvote option to use however they please, guess what? They're going to use it however they please. And those opinions expressed as votes will also have those who agree and disagree. For these reasons - and for reasons of blood pressure and stress - I avoid topics like religion, politics, controversies and conspiracies, who the whales are upvoting/downvoting, etc etc etc. Outside of Steemit, those things have no bearing on my personal life, so why would I add that stress? It's not worth it. I have problems of my own. Steemit is totally an auxiliary experience for me.

Thank you, Bernie!

For this example let’s assume the Hedge-Fund originally buys 100M Steem with 84M USD worth of Cryptocurrency. (...) When the Price of Steem goes from 0.84 to 7 dollars per Steem because of this move, that 100M worth of Steem is now worth 700M.

Such a nonsense wouldn't have ever made it to the trending page without buying the position.

I just wrote an algorithm that naked short sells BTC. I'm going to sell the algorithm to the Citadel tomorrow, so you'd better get out today. :)

i see what your concerns were with a post like this but you could end the bots and still have same problem with the amount of whales that sell their votes and when smts come everyone will be able to sell there voting in some way

This is not about bots, it's about abuse and scam. You may also consider the comments from a bunch of established users here that got much more into detail than I did.

still have same problem with the amount of whales that sell their votes

Amount of whales.. Where do you get these numbers from?

I'm pretty sure SMTs are not invented to encourage vote trading but to strenghthen the overall value of Steem. That's at least what I got from the whitepaper and videos so far.

by the amount of whales is from observations if you check transfers to a few whales that vote a lot you'll see many links with "gifts"

but does it really matter if users buy votes by steem sbd or trading votes is happening everywhere
check trending of #meme #fun #story for easy to see examples of this

didn't say was purpose SMTs were invented for but will allow anyone to sell votes without being seen in transfers

FYI - on Friday I'll have enough SP back to counter all of your purchased hypocritical votes.

Some people fight for noble causes, to bring the Earth and its people to a better place. I see you have other priorities.

I find it genuinely interesting that you find it rude to downvote bots. I'm serious about being genuine: understanding people's value systems is something I really like delving into. What is the source of this perceived rudeness? Basically, I'm asking you directly: why are you spending your most precious resource, time, doing something that counter-acts collective goodness? That doesn't seem like something a rational person does. What do you gain/what do you think you're accomplishing? Why does berniesanders wake up in the morning/what purpose do you want your hands to work towards?

We have actually fostered a relationship with several of the bot owners, so it's not like we're taking what we can get and snubbing the owners. Likewise, we are using this to step into the forefront of Steemit to both grow the entire platform and spread the wealth with our Steemit guild; a process which we have been open and transparent about - even communicating with the developers of the site about the state, growth, and foreseeable problems of the site. From a position of knowledge, I find it very difficult for you to posit a counter argument that does not simultaneously align with the stagnation of the systemic growth of Steemit.

I am glad you are going to take action against this page. They even had the cheek to reach out to my project @paywithsteem asking for a partnership and asked me to send them SBD for it!

It's okay @berniesanders, they just want to tell you who,what,when, and why to vote for someone. After all you are not Smart enough to do it yourself.

Accounts that consistently either like their own content, and/or continuously like the content of the same accounts, and/or continuously like the content of accounts that have been associated as “bots” will lose influence every week. Accounts that consistently like content from users they haven't liked before gain influence.

@berniesanders We'd like to reflect back to you the hateful nature of your perspective. Were doing the best we can to share positivity and fantastic ideas/articles and thoughts with our shared community.

Why do you spend so much of your time and energy attacking us?

the reason you are being chosen, is because you use a tag that has nothing to do with your post, and you are a known spammer \ tag spammer \ plaigerist \ upvotebot abuser. that simple

@inquiringtimes we changed the steemfest tag upon your request. Everything we have ever posted is content owned by the EN. What other methods are we using that you consider to be "spam"?

There are many different people using upvote bots. What in particular is bothering you so much about our usage of up-vote bots?

@berniesanders we found that having all of the bot comments makes it difficult for this article to be used as a conversation thread. We don't see why its rude to hide those comments, will you please elaborate on why you feel it is wrong for us to clear the comment space for other peoples solutions to be more easily seen?

why the heck would you use a dozen upvote bots in the first place? and then flag them? If i sold you a service, and then you flagged me, I wouldn't want you as my customer.... it's just ignorant.

also, ignorant is hitting your post with every upvote service in the steemiverse.

upvote bots are supposed to help you get a bit of visibility, so other people will read your post and decide to vote it or not. you are using them like a junkie... it's quite a bit more socially acceptable to use them sparingly, and make better content if you don't get enough natural votes.

also, you can just upvote the comments you like and then the real comments rise. I prefer a requested bot comment to some of the bs fake comments, tbh. flagging the vote bots that you paid for? smh.....

Maybe the author wanted to hide the fact that he paid for every vote buying service that exists on this platform to bring this piece of content into a trending position. Also the author used (pardon abused) the tag #steemfest and put the word 'minnow support' in the headline to improve visibility. This author pratices everythig but no minnow support.
The tag abuse might be even an interesting issue for @steemcleaners.

Actually, we decided to do it because we noticed there was an inverse relationship between bot comments and human commenters. We wanted more human commenters to participate in order to give people a voice on the topics we are bringing to Steemit.

This author pratices everythig but no minnow support.

This is untrue. Our Steemit guild is designed to support as many people who participate in it. We share our upvotes in strategic sessions, boosting people's content frequently. We're helping a lot of smaller accounts rise up and gain followers quickly.

Dear all,
I make a facebook group for steemit Vot and Comment. evrybody can join in my group. this is the Click the linke ill add you https://m.me/join/AbYsEkpXB2Ys7ahN

this is also spam, and a dangerous thread to be commenting irrelevant material.

There's no hiding the usage of upvote bots. We've removed the steemfest tag upon your request @surfermarly.

We have alot to offer minnnows. We even made a free academy we made for minnows and were developing guild software to support more authors in being seen https://awakening-sovereignty-collective.teachable.com/p/steemit-academy

A simpler way would have been to offer upvotes to human replies and actually help people. Instead, it was chosen to slap the bots.

I didn't request to remove the tag, you were abusing it to get more visibility.

Funny enough that you promote "authenticity" in your super academy, while you are practicing the complete opposite by yourself:

While there are many strategies you can employ, the most common is just being authentic and building relationships with people who are interesting to you. Writers on Steemit are making good money by doing just that.

Check out my account @steemaniacs and you will notice: everything that you are pretending to do was already invented and honestly (!) practiced long time before you started.

Actions speak louder than words and this community has an eye on your doings now. Good luck!

Well said mate.

Actually, this is quite funny. Our media agency has noticed that there is an inverse relationship between the number of bot comments and the number of human comments. The more bot comments there are, the less likely people seem to want to comment. Since it is the people we want to get in touch with, to create a relationship with the audience here before our Beta-launch in December, we wanted to encourage commenters as much as possible. We think it's important to create these relationships now, to show how authentic we are, as a side-effect of flipping the switch of our advertising potential is a significant adoption of Steemit by a wider audience.

I find it really interesting that this causes such an emotional reaction in people, which is self-evident by the changes in their written diction when compared to other comments they make. I have to question why that is. What specifically perturbs you about any of the concerns you bring up?

Personally, I feel the majority of people acting negatively are doing so unconsciously: that drama has been stirred up and everyone wants to jump on board and participate in the bashing. It is the thanatos of human nature that desires to call someone a junkie and willingly jumps on such an opportunity that seems favorable without social ramifications of doing so. Because it doesn't make sense that someone who aligns with esoteric philosophy to stand opposed to an organization that is actively promoting esoteric principles in alignment with highest collective good. Logically, in the big picture, it seems most likely that your concerns are arising from a short-sighted position that is not taking into consideration all the potential implications of the Earth Nation actions. Obviously, it's not an us vs them conflict, but to oppose us is to oppose an organization which actively strives to make the world a better place, and has a history of being transparent in how it is achieving this in a manner that grows the site and spreads the wealth with our steemit guild.

In my opinion, that's where real ignorance lies.

the real reason people comment less when there are a lot of bot comments, is because if you have to pay so many bots for your content to be popular, then your content must not be very good. so people see all the bots and think, why does the author think it's so valueless they must pay 10 bots to vote for it, hmm it must not be good content, I won't engage.

pass that on to your media consultants, free of charge.

flagging your paid advertisers is like giving a spanking to people who helped you. I know quite a few bot developers, and I will make sure they know this happens, so they can stop servicing people who "reward" their service with a downvote.

We put the smallest amount of down-vote in to the comments of those bots @inquiringtimes to clear the space for more room for dialogue.

We recommend that upvote bots set an option to not have them auto-comment or a smaller comment box so it doesn't take up so much space.

If our 1 cent flags are somehow harming the bots themselves, we'd be happy to upvote comments to offset the loss.

You can say it's bad logic, but I know these things from a few months of digging deep. This whole site is a deep well of knowledge, first thing first, etiquette. Flags are not to be used in an idle fashion. They are akin to throwing a glove on the ground or taking your glasses off and handing to a friend. It's asking for a fight. If you had been paying attention, there is quite a bit of controversy over the use of bots and providing the service. It's best left for minnows and people who don't have visibility. Now you've opened up Pandora's box. The best way to proceed is to speak softly, and pay more attention to how the rest of the community behaves. Just like in any community. You have a chance to redeem yourself, it's just going to be harder. All eyes are on you now. Cite your images. Reference quotes, stay clear of any hint of plagairism

You are really nailing this dialog man, it's a joy to behold :D

the real reason people comment less when there are a lot of bot comments, is because if you have to pay so many bots for your content to be popular, then your content must not be very good.

This is very poor logic. Given that any content we have produced is met with a large positive reception, it is safe to say that the content we produce is good.

In fact, the only negative thing people can find about our content is that we use bots. I think that's a pretty solid argument that our content has some sort of quality associated with it.

why does the author think it's so valueless they must pay 10 bots to vote for it, hmm it must not be good content, I won't engage.

Again, poor logic. One must ask how we got 800+ followers in a couple short weeks. Because we used bots, we gathered a sizable following quickly. That's decent engagement.

We aren't trying to reach people who act unconsciously and walk away from an article for reasons other than the content of the article itself. The people who would act on reflex to someone using bots are not thinking critically. It's much more beneficial to focus on attracting a following of conscious individuals who realize the use and downvoting of bots is a meaningless detail when compared to everything we are manifesting.

"I was going to walk into the mission and help feed starving people, but I would have had to step on the grass to do so."

flagging your paid advertisers is like giving a spanking to people who helped you

If I paid money for a car, and the dealer slapped a big sticker on the windshield, I would take the sticker off. The dealership has my money, so me removing their ad from the product I bought has no bearing on the dealership.

good luck with that.

@earthnation, I believed censorship is a bad thing and that Steem should be an okay place for everyone to get together and collaborate as a community.

You're ridiculing this principle just by being here on Steemit. For the good of the rewards pool and for the good of our community, please stop milking upvote bots and promoting spammy content.

If this guy is honest about helping minnows, then self voting would be beneficial since his steem power will get a boost.

you seem to be confused about how it all works

FYI - on Friday I'll have enough SP back to counter all of your purchased hypocritical votes.

I didn't expect that you will come back here with power. If this is true, then that would be great :)

I will be back to handle this post.

What do you feel when you "handle" these posts?

Why do you feel that way?

Are you "handling" posts for a perceived good, or to unconsciously boost your ego?

Many of us feel relief that someone with a large stake had the balls to do something. He's one of the few, if not only many times.

I perceive what bernie does as being good for the entire platform; and often times I believe they wait to do anything until many of us have complained publicly in chat.

The perception of this project in chat is far different than the hollow praise seen in the comments section here on Steemit.

This is not about feelings here, we're talking about business.

Even a decentralized system has certain rules. Since you set up an academy where you teach newbies how steemit works, you should know better...

Lesson 1: Don't excessively use vote byuing.
Lesson 2: Don't practice tag abuse.
Lesson 3: Don't talk about things you have no idea about.

You had 3 in 1. Congratulations!

This is not about feelings here, we're talking about business.

You may talk about business, but feelings are definitely also involved here. The way people are reacting is not rationally defined. There is a lot of knee-jerk reactions, and jumping on the collective bandwagon.

From what I know about system sciences and sociology, it seems more likely that a few big players on Steemit, such as berniesanders, have thrown an opinion in the collective pool, and that decides a significant portion of other opinions. This is why discourse is important, so we don't find ourselves trapped in a state of cognitive dissonance as our initial opinions are proven false and we unconsciously protect our egos.

You had 3 in 1. Congratulations!

Can you tell me what putting congratulations at the end there accomplished for you? Let me ask that same question another way: do you value your time? If so, why do you steal your own time from yourself by letting yourself be emotionally perturbed by things like this?

We at Earth Nation want to manifest a culture where everyone can achieve their highest potential. Part of this is providing education, and creating opportunities for others to succeed. A big thing that would really help everyone is the adoption of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. That's part of what Earth Nation is accomplishing with our systems. Consequently, our actions are going to cause a wider adoption of these technologies, which includes Steemit.

Steemit growing = Business, right?

Lesson 1: Don't excessively use vote byuing.
Lesson 2: Don't practice tag abuse.
Lesson 3: Don't talk about things you have no idea about.

These are interesting lessons. Can you tell me where they come from? What mind made up these rules?

This is not about me, it's about your piece of content. You can ask me 1,000 things about my state of mind, the answer is: none of your business.

While you believe that I waste my time commenting here, you should appreciate the given advices. There are a couple of established users (even the CTO from Steemit Inc!) trying to open your eyes since a couple of hours, and the only thing you do is telling us that you feel offended.

@ats-david just said it all with his comment.

I'm out.

You can ask me 1,000 things about my state of mind, the answer is: none of your business.

You're right, but I do feel compelled to reach out and help a person smashing their foot against the wall and complaining their foot hurts.

and the only thing you do is telling us that you feel offended.

I'm not offended. Actually no one in the office is offended. We're scratching our heads as to some of these responses: from a place of rationality, they don't make sense.

I can't speak about cryptocurrencies or the intricate details about what's in this article. I didn't write it, it's not my specialty, and I'm not addressing anything in this article. But, I am aware of a lot of other pieces in place that extend beyond Steemit and have a pretty good sense of cause-effect relationships

As an effect of the Earth Nation Beta Launch, Steemit is going to get a lot more users.

Just wanted to let you know I can't wait until you start the destruction. Happy to see that somebody is stepping up to take care of business. Good luck come friday 🤘

Get 'em! I don't have much else to contribute, since it's already been said, but this needs to be nuked into oblivion. They need to be nuked into oblivion.

@berniesanders @inquiringtimes @surfermarly @fulltimegeek @sneak @noisy and the rest of steem.

We love you! We're sorry if our tactics have hurt you, offended you, pissed you off or created other negative reactions.

We don't mean to abuse upvote bots or spam steem. Were the new kid on the block trying to figure out how it all works. Based on what seems to be popular consensus we have decided to stop using up-vote bots the way we have.

We want to engage with you and all of steem in a good way. By adding valueable content and inspiring dialogue. In the future, please be kind with us if we seem to be overstepping any invisible rules (like using up-vote bots too much).

We'd like to point out that this post has become one of the biggest dialogues on Steemit. We hope some of you appreciate this medium for conversation about the future of Steem.

Congradulations to @dj123 for providing the most in depth and well thought out responses as to why the steem economic system is more bulletproof then we originally thought. It will go a long way for Steem to make this information (and other pieces of key informatiom, like how pissed off some people get when you use upvote bots too much) more readily and easily available.

We will be compiling all of this information and more into our Free Steem Academy.

To read what dj123 wrote go to https://steemit.com/steemit/@earthnation/introducing-the-steem-defender-bot-designed-to-protect-steem-from-economic-collapse-and-support-minnow-growth-article#@dj123/re-dj123-re-josephlwiess-re-earthnation-re-josephlwiess-re-earthnation-introducing-the-steem-defender-bot-designed-to-protect-steem-from-economic-collapse-and-support-minnow-growth-article-20171114t145201583z

Not to split hairs....but the longest post just this month alone was @StellaBella at 45+K words, which dwalf the size of this post by more than double the size :)



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@berniesanders @inquiringtimes @surfermarly @fulltimegeek @sneak @noisy and everyone else who is reacting negativley to this posting....

If you want to see the steem community grow.... we recommend trying positive communication instead of immidiantly smashing down on what you don't like.

There is no guide to steem. No list of steem community protocols we've been able to find. No way for us to know what to and not to do.... So we're doing the best we can to figure out how to be here in a good way.

In an move to share an interesting conversation and offer help and thoughts towards solutions for steem.... You have met us with a lot of hate.

In the future, we invite you to be kinder to new people coming into this community offering to share. It will go a very long way towards the growth of this community.

So. Is there a cut off limit of what is too much to boost? At what point can we use mercenary upvote bots without attracting your wrath? If any of our posts hit trending now, are you going to shoot us down?

What will it take for us to be in peace?

@inquiringtimes we changed the steemfest tag since you mentioned that this post is considering spam in that catagory. We'd like you to know we never post plagurized information. We're interested in what else you think were doing that is considered spam by the steem community?

In General.... we want to be on good terms with all of the steem community. If you will just communicate with us how to best do that, that would be great! Please, consider writing a guide on standard community protocols and make that guide available to everyone so new people coming into steem don't have to learn "The hard way" by having all this emotional reactions/downvotes sent their way.

If you want to see the steem community grow...

Just stop that. Our community is growing at a healthy pace. We don't need the help of phonies like you and no we are not going to tell you how to maximize your vote buying abuse without getting flags.

It's not really growing at a healthy pace but a snail pace. We don't even have a million users after the first year!

Why do you seem so hurt by us @acidyo? Were on your side too. We don't mean to "abuse vote buying".

We don't mean to "abuse vote buying".

Yet you keep doing it after being told that's what it is.
At that point, it's no longer innocent.

Thank you, Winston!

It turns out to become ridiculous. The only statement missing here is "Oh we didn't know that excessive vote buying could harm the eco-system".

Oh man.....!

Why are you so triggered about us and this post @surfermarly?

It's not this post specifically, I generally care for the future of this platform.

We have been convinced! We will not be using up-vote bots in the same way in the future. Thank you for understanding that we did not understand @winstonwolfe

If you want to see the steem community grow.... we recommend trying positive communication instead of immidiantly smashing down on what you don't like.

In other words, drink, be merry, and nevermind the man behind the curtain? Just be blissfully ignorant while you scam on?

Will you elaborate on what you think were scamming on about?

Oh yunno, that thing you're doing that you're labeling as "not a scam" even though you're being told very plainly and clearly it's what you're doing by multiple big-hitters on the site (many of whom don't get along, btw - that should say something).

Again, what is the "thing were doing"?

Well it's obviously not listening.

We are trying @winstonwolfe! We are here for you and doing the best we can to play nicely and inspire dialogue while adding value to the community.

Please, give us a break.

Can you tell us about this aspect of your scheme?

✅ Earn 50$ worth of steem power to get started with by joining the EN Steem Team. By joining you also benefit from the advanced academy, our trending post boosting service, upvotes, resteems and support from our entire community (including the EN whale).

✅ It costs 100$ worth of Keys or Keys Credits to join the Steem Guild. Send the Keys to [email protected] and fill out the form below to get started.

Sounds pretty suspicious to me...

I'm really glad you paid to have this post put on the trending page. It's getting a lot of great visibility.

We would love to show you what we do and what were really on about over a phone or video call @berniesanders.

The Earth Nation Steemit Guild is a designed to support content creators in earning a basic living income through Steem. We have several layers with which we do this.

  1. Education. https://awakening-sovereignty-collective.teachable.com/p/steemit-academy
    This steemit academy is a free general overview. We have an advanced academy and we are developing an Academy for writers/content creation/content curation/content formatting/audience and keyword targeting.

  2. Community Support. We hold globally attendable zoom meetings several times a week to educate and support our guild members with live training, Q&A and general love and support.

  3. Cross-Liking. Our guild members give 7 votes a day towards upvoting each other. We have a custom software system to make this process automatic. 2 times a day everyone upvotes the main EN Whale. The other 5 votes are spent on 5 guild members who's time it is to get boosted. Members get upvoted every 1-2 weeks currently. When a member gets upvoted, every member of our guild upvotes them with full power.

  4. Cross-Resteeming. Each guild member resteems Guild Content 3 times a week. The first resteem is an EN Whale posting. The 2nd and 3rd resteems are of other guild members. Anytime a post is resteemed it is also upvoted by everyone.

  5. Curation. Before any content is upvoted or resteemed, it is curated, proof-read and edited by our writers team to ensure the highest quality content with positive perspectives.

  6. Post Syndication. We currently use zapier, streemian, buffer, and wordpress pluggins to automatically syndicate with post formating our guild members posts to social media sites and wordpress blogs agross the internet. Within weeks we will have a custom application that makes this process a simple 3 step task with unlimited sharing and smart post content formating. This software will be part of the guild automation suite.

I am not very happy to know about the abusive behaviors of @earthnation toward using bots and the reward pool.

However, I do see value in the idea of implementing the influence measure to steemit accounts.

I believe that the advantages from such implementation are worth considering because (in my opinion)

* They will prevent circle and feedback-loop upvotes between whales and Co.

* They will prevent automated votes on the same accounts just for the sake of higher curation rewards, without bothering to read the contents.

* They will prevent @earthnation and others from abusing bot votes to the extreme (if at all)



Now whether @earthnation does this programing/implementation to steemit blockchain or not, is another issue to be discussed. I am sure steemit has lots of good programmer who are able to make such changes without depending on @earthnation. since people don't seem to trust them very much.

@earthnation,
You have started the very wrong way. People are getting fed up with abuse of reward pools and are very ready to attack anyone that does it openly to get attention.
Maybe you were doing this without malicious intent, it will be hard now to get back the respect and trust of steemit. Yet, hard doesnt mean impossible to correct with hard work and sincerity. So, don't make it impossible by continuing on the same path you started with.

Best,
Dr. TLK

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Honestly, I get 15 of those requests a day, 14 of which are more enticing than yours.

My suggestion is that you start making whatever it is you're doing a little more transparent to the community here on Steemit because right now you're looking pretty scammy and those usually don't last long here.

What details would you like @berniesanders? We will happily answer any questions you have. I posted a short summary as to our guild services below.

As you read this, were working on developing more services for steem. We were considering making this defender bot swarm next... However that doesn't seem like a very popular idea right now :p.

Instead, were going to keep focusing on our post distribution system to empower steemians to share their posts easily to other forms of social media.