RE: UseSteem Update: Top Authors by Payout!
Sad to see certain people consistently buying massive votes just to stay on trending. Some of them have huge followings and can make a good amount from real votes. The real winners are those selling the votes and I opt to not support them. Okay, so I delegate to one very small 'bid bot' that supports runners, but I don't buy votes on specific posts. I don't self vote either as I need my VP to support others and deal with abuse.
I think the trending page gives a wrong and harmful impression of what Steem is to new users. They expect to make as much and they will see buying votes as the way to do that rather than actually engaging with others and building communities.
So, who dares to flag these 'top' accounts?
I just checked and it seems I'm not in the top 1000 :(
There is a lot of pollution in the list, bought votes. If you read those posts and see the comments those are mostly from people who wants a piece of the pie in one way or another but eventually wont get any.... I think for Steem and Steemit it will do more then good if there is some mechanism to stop that missusage of bots and other selfenriching ways...
You'll see many of those people get hardly any comments, so buying votes cannot be said to really promote your post unless you get onto trending. I don't think they make much profit. It takes work to build a following, but some are not prepared to do that