Been watching this fight long enough now. I've even written an open letter to a bot owner to try and convince them to change the max post age limit to 3.5 days so that we can move forward as a community.
Valid points were made that we cannot let one person dictate and change our platform.
The stubborness that lingers is incredible. No one is willing to budge not one inch. refuses to work with anyone but himself.
"I've consulted myself on the matter" -Grumpycat
This just in
For those of you that may not know yet, has transfered a large sum of steem to a newly created account,
, inwhich he plans to unleash the same hell on the platform that he's been unleashing for the last two or so months.
Stripping away rewards from innocent content creators all because he's upset that bidbots are irresponsibly selling votes at the last minute.
This sort of "irresponsible vote selling" supposedly prevents curators that flag abuse from stopping abuse because 12 hours, or one day, is not "enough time" to clean up the abuse that takes place with "last minute vote buying".
While I have not done a large amount of flagging myself, I have and I can say that while it is relatively easy to find an abusive account, it is even easier to watch nothing happen to said account and when pay day comes, they get paid.
In other words, not enough people are flagging to make a difference. This was stated by one of the bidbot owners and I don't necessarily disagree with him.
Here's a question I have for though, and I highly doubt it'll get properly answered.
Just what the hell abuse have you fought in your two month rampage?
You created your grumpycat account with on November 22nd (just a few days before I joined Steemit) and you created the
account using anonsteem service.
I won't even mention how I think that the anonsteem service is kind of BS. It's great that people created anon accounts to fight abuse, but the same tactic can be used by folks that want to abuse.
Besides flagging innocent users of for the last 2 months, what abuse have you actually help to fight? I can't seem to find it. What abuse have you actually stopped? I can't seem to pinpoint this. From what I understand, you gave "bidbot owners" 14 days to comply. Those who complied, did so within those 14 days. Ever since then, you've been flagging innocent posters because they used a bidbot that does not give a damn how you feel about the max age limit for posts.
So tell me, what abuse are you actually fighting? None whatsoever.
I may not fully agree with bidbots, but the people you are attacking don't deserve it.
I think it's time you take a new approach... your bully tactic isn't working.
Conclusion
Okay minnows and minnettes. Here's the thing. You and I are bidders on bidbots. (Well, not me, but just go with me on this). We as the bidbot purchasers are being punished for using bidbots by one rich guy that says using that bidbot is bad (when in reality, it isn't, because it is 100% legal to vote on any post before the payout date.)
The bidbot owners are not going to give in to his demands, no matter what. The solution would then be to simply stop using those bidbots. The thing is, that uses the same bidbots he says are bad.
And I'd love to know what the hell this is about:
All while the owner of has created
to help combat his unjust downvotes.
This goes to show us who cares more about the platform. Some faceless meme, or the owner of the bot that has had to create yet another bot in order to compensate his customers for the unjust flags that they receive.
I can't see this grumpy dog being a continued valuable addition to this amazing platform. His actions are destructive, and he is spitting in all our faces by continuing his rampage and opening yet a second account to screw more people over with.