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RE: 10 Tips for Improving ITSM Metrics and Reports
Yes they did. If they are going to come onto my blog and spam it with their propaganda, which also feeds a blog that is not on #Steemit, then yes. Not sure why it is anyone's business if I invest my SP out to others for use and they vote on my post for doing so.
No problem, I'm just a shit minnow, who creates this content because I enjoy it and hoping others will to. I'll just take my focus back to Facebook and other social media.
Haha, way to put lipstick on that pig. Welcome to decentralized governance. I guess it just isn't for you.
@joshman, sorry, I guess my ignorance on the guts of how steem really works to understand this. It is not my intent to put lipstick on anything.
Hey, but at least the two of you made a comment when you downvoted. Even though one of the comments looks like a "bot" comment.
Some people have a visceral reaction to downvotes. You seem like a reasonable guy.
People can use their investment/stake to influence behavior such as buying of votes, upvoting, and downvoting. While the STEEM you spent on the votes was yours to do so as you please, the resulting allocation of the reward pool is voted upon and not guaranteed. The expectation of ROI for a bought vote is one of the primary issues. Another issue is the bot vendors themselves are creating the false expectation that spending a little STEEM is akin to promoting. While that's true to some extent, you can look at trending yourself to get a feel for how much STEEM you would have to spend to get anywhere close to the top. The level of your bids would put you several pages deep. Not many people scroll that far. These days if you even attempt to bid a post that high, the downvotes will be heavy.
The absolute best way to promote yourself these days is through engagement. While your stuff is very good, and I'd hate to see you leave. It's near impossible to draw a line and say one group of people are acceptable to buy votes, and one group of people is not. If you're relatively new, you missed the days of a single photo post with three words getting $100 bids or more. The recent hard fork was the community saying enough is enough. Most bid bots of the past have switched over to manual curation. There are a few hold outs, as you well know now! :)
As a fellow IT guy, I'd hate to see you go. As of now, you are only promoting yourself to people who have a disdain for vote buying. Getting exposure here is not easy. I know first hand. But I can tell you this for certain. Even had you not been downvoted, you would have received very little in the way of organic votes or followers by doing this. Myself, and many others with stake, if we aren't downvoting, we sail right by posts that have bought votes.
Hope this helps. If you want to chat more, I'm pretty easy to find on discord.