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RE: Shark Jumping - Shut It Down? - 29/644

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So you paying someone to increase your rewards and participating in a system that distorts the reward pool is OK, but people choosing to downvote posts with purchased rewards is not? Why do you think the bid bots are owed a return? You already paid them, so they are already ahead.

You accused me of theft and abuse. That was inaccurate. Voting against a post that has purchased votes is entirely in line with the intent of the downvote system, which specifically lists "disagreement with rewards" among the valid purposes of the downvote. I have clearly stated the reason why I disagree with your rewards, too.

Upvotes and downvotes are both methods designed into Steemit to allow the aggregate of readers to determine the value of a post. Bid bots are abuse because they distort this organic, grassroots process. Downvoting people who buy votes is not abuse or theft. You do not own estimated pending rewards.

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    I think buying and selling votes should be legal.

    Perhaps it is only discriminatory. TO be fair it would be hard for you to go after every single promoted post but it seems like the bots could do that.

    I support the upvotes and downvotes but I also support fairness. I think a bidbot promoted post could be overvalued but I think it could also be undervalued.

    Same with groups like OCD. I think their votes could also overvalue some posts and they seem very discriminatory in their downvotes.

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      Value is always subjective. Some people with high vote weight can strongly influence the payout on posts one way or the other based on their subjective valuation of the content. Paying to get votes exacerbates this matter and makes it a real problem, though.

      What is with your obsession with legality? Legality does not define morality. I am not calling for someone to issue a decree forbidding or permitting anything here. I am saying, just as one individual to another, that what you have been doing to distort the reward pool is not cool.

      You have called me a thug and a nazi in response, and continue to make irrelevant replies.