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This is how Steem Voter is monetized and made worthwhile for its creators (and allows us to continue using it for free). The system automatically uses 1 vote from each Steem Voter user to vote on these status posts, so yes, most of those votes are automatic ones (and we get nice curation rewards in the process, so win-win!). I like to use it as a gauge of how popular the service is.

It was a lot more popular before we accidentally lost some people's rules. We lost a few big users when that happened. We will regain!

Oh well, chalk it up to growing pains, it happens. Hopefully they will return!

It would be nice if you added a "Rules Backup" button which would dump the rules to a plain text file on the user's computer. Then they could save them, and even edit the text file (which might be easier than clicking all the GUI buttons for bulk updates), then re-import it as needed.

We have actually talked about this, and it is in the plan once we are done with this phase!

Awesome, glad to see you guys are thinking ahead!