Sneaky Ninja does not fund spam or abuse in anyway and is in no way irresponsible. This cat is simply a theif, stealing your money as well as so many others. Not to mention raping the reward pool heavily in the process. This rule of his is not real. It is simply his way of covering up the massive reward pool rape he is conducting on our platform.
In fact, if you would like to see what steps Sneaky Ninja has taken to fight bid bot abuse see this post and this post. There is also much more being done behind the scenes right now.
@sneaky-ninja is a very responsible bot. This is simply slander to hide all of his ill gotten gains.
Sneaky Ninja is voting and using his vote the way he sees fit. Grumpycat is voting and using his vote as he see fit. No one is stealing anything from anyone. Your self voting or selling of your vote is your business. Grumpycats selling or blocking your selling or neutralizing your vote is not stealing. I can not speak to the terms "Slander" as I am not a lawyer.
The FAQ is clear your vote is your vote and you are allowed to use it as you see fit to include upvoting of your own post and comments. The only theft that is or can be conducted is asking people for money for a service and not providing that service.
There is a lot of talk about self votes, down votes and one person giving huge votes to another person. When you look at it there is no theft going on. Neither you, grumpycat, haejin, nor myself are guaranteed a certain amount of SBD/Steem. It is all based on percentages of what is available. Steemit.inc is the owner of the reward pool. Not you, me, grumpycat, lordrancho or what ever his name is. It is steemit.inc's money. If they feel the reward system needs to be changed, they can change it. If they feel someone is to big for their britches they can fix it.
I suppose I should have phrased that as - - - what he considers an irresponsible - - -
But I do not think I have ever mentioned any of the vote bots by name until about 1 hour ago on another post. The only people that make money on a vote bot are the vote bot owners, and I have no problem with that, as I do not use the vote bots.
slan·der
ˈslandər/Submit
nounLAW
the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
"he is suing the TV network for slander"
verb
make false and damaging statements about (someone).
"they were accused of slandering the head of state"
synonyms: defame (someone's character), blacken someone's name, tell lies about, speak ill/evil
def·a·ma·tion
ˌdefəˈmāSH(ə)n/Submit
noun
the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel.
Legally what he is doing fits both of these, lawyer or not.
As far as stealing goes...
When you strip rewards from a person doing no wrong, knowing those rewards go back to a pool that you then immediately take self appointed rewards from that very same pool....
You have just stole their money plain and simple.
Disagreement on rewards - - is not stealing from anyone. @transisto has made that abundantly clear to several individuals. There can be no theft from the reward pool. Payout is done when payout is done, and payouts can be voted up or down until a certain time.