This was a good history lesson for me. I'm only on my 3rd week. I have seen the war but was not sure how it started. To be honest I don't care what sort of ballistics the whales lob at each other. But I am very concerned with the amount of minnows caught in the cross fire.
I even write this comment wondering, will this very comment gain the wrath of one of these killer whales?
Everything I guess comes down to the rules. I have seen heaps of large fish to wales self and often bot upvoting on anything from 1 letter to 2 words. While this is not violating the letter of the law it certainly is violating the spirit of it. Should they be forced to stop? I don't think that you could even if you wanted to. They would just use bot's or shadow accounts to do it.
I think our only hope is to appeal to their more sensitive side and ask them to stop upvoting $#@# posts, and more importantly we as minnows and small fish should not upvote @#$# in hopes that we get a little morsel of upvote in return. We are empowering them.
I have no issue with self upvote but just make sure at least it's not total poo. That's where people will start quitting, when they see massive payout on a few words.
Will they ever stop? I don't know no one seems to trust corporations or bankers to do the "right" thing of their own volition. The deference is this are individuals or at least small groups. Maybe they will maybe they won't. Depends on if they are sociopaths or not.
At the end of the day I just ask that the big whales please don't downvote me, or send your cronies to. I am not trying to start a war and I am not saying one side or the other is right or wrong. I just don't like to see huge payouts of rubbish. At least write a poem or something, heck the poem can be rubbish because art is subjective. I digress.
PS Remember don't hate me i'mjustsaying