That's ridiculous. Regardless of possible disagreement of rewards on those OCD posts, downvoting them for retaliation purposes is a very low act.
Now, regarding upmewhale and other bid-bots using vote-selling services. I'm not exactly sure whether that's actually worse than his try at manual voting: https://steemit.com/quotes/@anhvu/quotes-134-sin-1569077304
Nevertheless, I've been very transparent about my stance on vote-selling/buying-votes after EiP and what I've done so far should display that I'm not just spitting empty words. And in retrospect, I would have appreciated getting a positive word out about the @smartsteem manual curation movement, as we started manually curating even before ocdb (the previous bid-bot).
And to be absolutely clear: vote-selling of Smartsteem will not be supported for that much longer. It's just a matter of weeks until I've completed the re-design and the era of vote-buying will come to an end.
Also, I really hope that more curation projects like @curangel, @curie & @ocd are starting to pop up and that @freedom decides to shift his delegations towards those. At this point, those should be on par (and most likely even exceeding them) with profitability than delegating to bid-bots; and far more healthy for the ecosystem.
So with that said: keep on doing what you do with @ocdb and @ocd, @acidyo!
I wasn't trying to throw dirt at smartsteem in this post, I appreciate what you guys do and are planning on doing in the near future. I just happened to notice that while finishing the post and had to throw in the screenshot as it seemed pretty funny.
Yep their manual voting has not been great, goes to show why that is not easy either and deserves it's rewards.
This is amazing to hear, hopefully we will also be able to have eachothers backs as curation projects vs the abusive downvotes from retaliation because these bid bots are trying to fight eachother over ROI cause they're afraid a whale that's enabling them who's been afk most of the year may undelegate. They don't seem to understand it's about the very case of selling profitable bids and delegators earning more than curators.
lols.