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RE: Where are your votes going?
delegating to a bot is nothing more and nothing less than self voting
It is, but its less obvious as you say. My recent delegation to @helpie that gives me a bigger vote could be a seen as a way of self-voting but this is deemed acceptable? On the other hand, @helpie votes people with 'good content' for nothing if they are accepted into the 'group'.
Where do we draw the line? If I also delegate to @qurator and @silvergoldbotty simply to gain daily self-votes am I then exploiting the system?
As the system operates today its not designed, or let's use the word "conducive" to make any type of manual curation profitable or sustainable. So, i will say the controversial thing...
If given the choice to support a good article writer, the new shakespear or a good human being... i will chose the latter without hesitation.
Helpie to me is an effort for good people who care to pool their resources together and shift the distribution a little bit so it does not syphon to the top with much velocity.
Now, this phenomena to me is due to many factors, but the one that helpie is fighting back on, the battlefront, you could say, is the inability to cooperate meaningfully.
So, what we are doing in helpie is supporting you... via your content, but the distinction is key.
That conversation is completely aside, and should not be conflated with whales self voting.
My position on that matter is this... everyone is free to do what they want with their stake, the right response to shit content is flags.
What happens if those flags lead to reprisals?