RE: Payouts with zero votes? What's going on here?
Well, I don't see how unsolicited upvotes are a form of abuse. If the autovoters are endowed with stake, they are deployed per the stakeholders wishes. If my posts and comments are upvoted by them, I reckon it's because what I say has value that the stakeholder wants to encourage. That's how upvotes work.
Are you calling all upvotes abuse, or all autovotes abuse, just the ones from FTG, or only upvotes I receive? You can easily ascertain if there's any quid pro quo by having a look at my wallet and xactions. You might also read a few of my comments regarding bidbots. I've never bought a vote, never pandered for a vote, and don't think I will.
What I do is speak my mind, and it seems FTG provides me incentive to do that. How is that abuse?
The only abuse I had in mind when I included the tag was @animalcontrol's comment spam.
The abuse I'm talking about there has to do with upvoting comments and earning curation rewards. It was actually @pjau who made the post I reference. I believe it had something to do with using faucet delegations too.
To be clear, I don't know that this is what's happening here and I have very little reason to think it is what's happening.
Just an illustration of how upvotes can potentially be abusive.
Hey there, this has nothing to do with Steemit faucet delegations as it is not a @steem made account, so it won't ever receive delegation from Steemit. Besides it has too much SP on it 😉
But as for the display issue on Steemit, @themarkymark has explained it in this post if you didn't read it already: https://steemit.com/asksteem/@themarkymark/re-a-non-e-moose-payouts-with-zero-votes-what-s-going-on-here-20190330t163425399z
I had not read this, and very much appreciate the info.
Thanks!