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RE: How to make friends and influence people
I really wanted to write "Good post" @abh12345, so you would give me the "HUH?!? " comment too! haha
....but this stuff is no laughing matter, is it?! I'm considering letting you be my proxy, which is huge for me because I'm big on controlling my own stuff, so to speak. I've got 15 or so voted on, but so many of those are on your list. I'm following this closely, but seriously, I'm private message you if I want you to take over, because truthfully, I trust your judgement and I trust your intentions even more.
I'm tagging @thedarkhorse here because he recently wrote a post wondering who to vote for so I know he's going to want to be in on this too.
Thanks for all you do Asher!
Don't you dare 'good post' me! :D
My intentions are perhaps better than my judgement, but I think i'm on the right track with regards to Witness votes. I have a few spare but those will only be given once I know 'enough' to decide.
Thank you also for all the good vibes that you bring!
hahaha I just couldn't do that to you :)
This has just made me decide, my new proxy buddy! I'll get Brian to do the same because I know he hasn't voted for any. And truthfully, change whatever you want on my list because, well, that's what proxy means haha See, it's hard for me to give up control ;)
Good call, @lynncoyle1.
If I would trust anyone with my list of witnesses (which for now, I don’t, ‘cos I’m a giant CTRL-freak myself -lol), it would be Asher!
I just know I'll never get around to researching them all! Sometimes it feels good to give a little control away :)
Ehm... I’m not sure I’m ready to agree with that, @lynncoyle1 ;0)
For now, I’ve voted for the people that have actively put in an effort when I was hacked. And some people that are providing services I use daily. I go slow, one witness at a time.
Yep I hear you loud and clear ;) I have about 15 selected, but I know Ash has the same ideals as me, and already knows a lot more than me, so...it seems like a win-win.
Scratch it off my list of to-do's. 'choosing witnesses'...done!
Being tagged notifications really needs to be part of the steemit platform! Thanks for the message on discord to point me here.
@abh12345 thanks for taking the time to compile this list. I am going to have to review it against those I'm supporting.
Still not decided if bidbots are truly bad for steemit, but the way they are currently run isn't acceptable IMO.
I would love to be part of an account that is there to review content and give out downvotes for poor content that uses bots or other "arrangements" to get far to many rewards for the content provided. Stolen content and scammers getting not only the post reviewed nuked, but the entire account. Would need some serious delegations for this, but would be willing to put in time towards the efforts and give a list 2-3 times weekly of those who got flagged and why.
@thedarkhorse, nice to meet you. Any friend of @lynncoyle1 is my friend too ;0)
I’ve seen a post by @sneaky-ninja about setting up a new @sneaky-ninja abuse policy.
Basically, the post said that @sneaky-ninja will set up a team of people (called @steembotcleaners) to manually go through all votes that have been bought, and will deal with plagiarism and low-quality content.
I don’t know how they will manage to deal with it, but if you ask me, it is a step in the right direction...
Agreed and took a quick look at your latest posts. Added you to my follow list.
I have seen the post about the changes that sneaky-ninja is testing and very interested to see how that all plays out...and if it lasts. Really hoping that it will clean things up a little and maybe with less spammers buying votes there will be room for quality posts to use these services once and a while to get some exposure without loosing your butt doing so.
True.
But the question remains: who will decide what’s a quality post and what’s not? And why can’t a short post be of more quality than a long one?
Anyways, I’m just really glad to see that people are finally taking steps to do something about it. Because if nothing is done, SteemIt will go down. The trending page which is basically the main SteemIt advertisement, looks aweful. The wrong people and the wrong posts are being rewarded, and a wrong message is sent to the ‘outside world’.
Even if this @steembotcleaners experiment fails, it is good to see a bot owner being aware of the problem and willing to take steps to make a change. It might be the beginning of the future...
Btw, thanks for the follow ;0)
Quality is subjective, but cut & paste plagiarism and stolen photos/meme/videos don't deserve rewards. This is about original content not stealing from others and getting paid for it.
My pleasure @thedarkhorse; I'm glad you found it. I see that you've met @simplymike too...both of your introductions are very sweet...warms my heart.
It is good to see that at least it's all been noticed and something may be done about it. But I agree with @simplymike...some of it's pretty subjective, so who decides all of that? It would be nice however to get rid of the obvious spammy junk though!
True. Often the difference between junk and ‘no-junk’ is like black and white, but there is also a grey zone.
I’ll just be happy if the real junk posts will be filtered out.
(I ust admit I do feel a little offended by being rejected by Smartsteem - that’s where the question about who decides what’s quality and what’s not came from, lol. I know I’m not a top notch writer, but I’m definitely not the worst...)
It should be easy to get rid of the obvious junk, right?!
I didn't know about you and Smartsteem. Their loss if you ask me! :)
There’s indeed a lot of crap that can be filtered out without having to look at it twice ...
And thanks, @lynncoyle1
Nice thing to say (but don’t you always - lol)
Well I mean every word of it missy! :)