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It's an automatic bot that calculates how much a person self-votes vs how much they vote for others. Voting for others will stop it. It's not my bot but that's how it works.

I know, i was just trying to say that @sadkitten algo works on a self vote percentage of 85%? at the moment, after it has got rid of all those people from Steemit, it will no doubt reduce to perhaps say 80%.. then 75% ... then... 70%... then 5%?

Were does it stop? how much damage do they cause first?

Something like that. I can't see it rationally going under 50% at the very least since that'll beat the point. There are better ways for it to act. For example, if it instead finds all those people who upvote others' posts at 0.05% and then their own comments in them for 100%.

Yeah good point re: 50% I did a little research and have changed my mind, I now think that they will probably not attack people under 85% due to a well known whale that sits at this level of self votes.

It would be self harming in the extreme to attack him.

We have down voted @haejin before actually, you can verify that for yourself.

i was just trying to say that @sadkitten algo works on a self vote percentage of 85%?

That's not correct. It will maximally down vote with 85% votes. The criteria for being identified as a high self voter are frequently self voting yourself during the previous week and not voting for others very much or at relatively much lower strength.

It's unlikely it will need to be stopped any time soon but we're refining the algorithm as we go. Recently I added greater strength to the mitigating factor of outgoing votes so a nice percentage outgoing should make you invisible to sadkitten.

Also not that, as I have said many times, SteeemReports.com is not accurate and not a good yardstick for knowing yourself votes.

A vote, any vote should come freely and from the heart and not forced under the point of a gun, trying to force people to vote on something when they does not wish to is wrong and it forced by and only done by control freaks and look up the definition of control freak it fits the sadkitten bot.

Down votes are not violence. No one is forced to do anything, your metaphors are all over the place. We vote against the highest self voters, and we don't even fully counter further self votes, we only down vote to 85%.

Everyone is free to vote as you say, recognize that works both ways.