<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:05:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/selfvotes/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Vote-trading and the sorts - last video about voting for a while, I promise]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the risk of sounding too negative about things on Hive and how I'm starting my Youtube journey, I thought I'd upload another quick video with some thoughts after having a lengthy discussions regarding]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/curation/@acidyo/vote-trading-and-the-sorts-last-video-about-voting-for-a-while-i-promise</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/curation/@acidyo/vote-trading-and-the-sorts-last-video-about-voting-for-a-while-i-promise</guid><category><![CDATA[curation]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acidyo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:40:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eJPucDwKXeVKYUzog59AmrAXDxAdPq7ZHnN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[AskLeo - Would Ditching Self and Auto Votes Make Hive a "Better Place"?  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my Leofinance post of yesterday I tackled the topic of rewards on the Hive blockchain, quality content, and the distribution process of such rewards which will always be seen with subjective eyes. It's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@acesontop/askleo-would-ditching-self-and-auto-votes-make-hive-a-better-place</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@acesontop/askleo-would-ditching-self-and-auto-votes-make-hive-a-better-place</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acesontop]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:54:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2bP4pJr4wVimqCWjYimXJe2cnCgn3UxFUPswET6ujCJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Data and thoughts on votes in LeoFinance]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year or so back, I made myself fairly unpopular in the SportsTalkSocial community for producing posts like this, and this, and this. I was called such things as racist, a bigot, and cyber-bully - let's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@abh12345/data-and-thoughts-on-votes-in-leofinance</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@abh12345/data-and-thoughts-on-votes-in-leofinance</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[abh12345]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:23:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2923mN3pnd7PiNwC4SZeLS8gsPqbAhHKzXBuEw8k3LSJnomHEmqesEfy1bgEdE3Dc3jgTPbnEEqNWg1WuTLP4Usz8i5DmZ7tK7o9CJx7bZnrvz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SELF VOTING - Good Or Evil? [Let's Talk About It!]]]></title><description><![CDATA[What Does Your Moral Compass Say? Good Or Bad? People have talked about self-votes ever since I created my Steem(it) account in July 2016. At first, during a rather long period of time, users we're literally]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@hitmeasap/self-voting-good-or-evil-let-s-talk-about-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@hitmeasap/self-voting-good-or-evil-let-s-talk-about-it</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[hitmeasap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:41:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW4PvRk9nXC1RsHWxNoWjhqsdMpcQibWm8w7J1GktECMFSBe7FbqftVHmQPZEDsFYcMjP5retgiC8fGXJT3iLpg1neCJaos2CGqTJyhQu3ca?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-votes aren't rational]]></title><description><![CDATA[Until some weeks ago I regularly upvoted my own posts (1 or 2 per week). I thought "if the price continues to fall, at least, by upvoting myself I can reduce the damage". Then I realized that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive/@zuerich/self-votes-aren-t-rational</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive/@zuerich/self-votes-aren-t-rational</guid><category><![CDATA[hive]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zuerich]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:40:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/hgjbks2vRxvf3xsYr6qQ7dm31DuBHGui8pKMdEVPxhLfEeEoVMPfUw5KbGJ9QppMzBpiot8FTX7HWEMnwFxJ5Lp5Jv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why i do not bought Votes, do not voting myself and do not follow curation trails on Hive. [ENG]/[DE] ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi Bees. In my opinion now is a good time in the low of the Altcoins to once again draw attention to how our behaviour could perhaps change in a more far-sighted way in order to profit from it collectively]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/english/@alucian/why-i-do-not-bought-votes-do-not-voting-myself-and-do-not-follow-curation-trails-on-hive-eng-de</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/english/@alucian/why-i-do-not-bought-votes-do-not-voting-myself-and-do-not-follow-curation-trails-on-hive-eng-de</guid><category><![CDATA[english]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alucian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:16:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[.]]></title><description><![CDATA[.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@crokkon/self-votes-low-diversity-votes-and-how-the-situation-changed-since-2018-1564255973361</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@crokkon/self-votes-low-diversity-votes-and-how-the-situation-changed-since-2018-1564255973361</guid><category><![CDATA[selfvotes]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[crokkon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:32:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sportstalk and Self Votes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yes, I always Self vote my posts on Steemit, it doesn't do much for me anyway because my vote is worth only about $0.003 at the current Steem price, so actually all I am trying to do is to add a little]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@gduran/sportstalk-and-self-votes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@gduran/sportstalk-and-self-votes</guid><category><![CDATA[selfvotes]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[gduran]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:40:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmjHZi5BZ8yMBPHvJLxhW1228ofQTgzrZVRC6gEXxeT7Mq7E6jCSEo2v7S5y98?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proposal: PalNet bidbot/selfvote-flagging week; Juli 15 till Juli 21. Please resteem this post.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I like the idea of steem-engine in general and PALNET specifically as an interesting testing ground for the future of STEEM. With bid-bots already maing their way into the steem-engine ecosystem, we are]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/flags/@pibara/proposal-palnet-bidbot-selfvote-flagging-week-juli-15-till-juli-21-please-resteem-this-post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/flags/@pibara/proposal-palnet-bidbot-selfvote-flagging-week-juli-15-till-juli-21-please-resteem-this-post</guid><category><![CDATA[flags]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pibara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:36:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iQN79aXU3GtWpxo2VDBpddkw99vR5ncDpT1XjG6gbFSNK6ynBF9Ru7jUGpAq3BGV6yaaX7sQvBx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey! I don't know about you, but...]]></title><description><![CDATA[¡Something weird is happening here lately! For me this has been pretty easy to pinpoint. Since my poor upvote at full 100% of my VP scarcely gives $0.02 cents only. But probably yours gives a lot more]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@por500bolos/hey-i-don-t-know-about-you-but</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@por500bolos/hey-i-don-t-know-about-you-but</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[por500bolos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:57:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/54TLbcUcnRm3sWQK3HKkuAMedF1JSX7yKgEqYjnyTKPwrcJuL5DoemYGLiBgGH63JME1hpeQ24WrBaegcJiMFfW8BuDmWr3yxZpxg85UxDb5KbNcwiBcJZNB7J2YXtaLCqhMP2oDp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplistic ideas against self voting and vote selling lead to twisted workarounds.]]></title><description><![CDATA[2018-7-11 There is sadkitten, A biased bot with hypocrisy embedded in its code, which did not downvote the bad whales' comment spam farms. The workaround sadkitten: use alternative accounts to upvote youself]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hypocrisy/@stimialiti/simplistic-ideas-against-self-voting-and-vote-selling-lead-to-twisted-workarounds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hypocrisy/@stimialiti/simplistic-ideas-against-self-voting-and-vote-selling-lead-to-twisted-workarounds</guid><category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stimialiti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:48:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 100 Self-Voting Activity from 3/5-3/11]]></title><description><![CDATA[This report is a summary of all self-voting activity of the Top 100 SP Holders on Steemit. Under each author is included the posts that they self-voted over the course of time covered in this report. Feel]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-3-5-3-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-3-5-3-11</guid><category><![CDATA[selfvotes]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jaredcwillis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:13:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/pBMyo3B2SaoC4ZRzyPFS6GjuPkpgZWRpnz35x1qNRdT51xNtyH7iCfsdTKCFo2HbRTEgjGegSugVhZ3hwphLrvAgdfPo8kzW1we4woHc1GMsBrYaVxw2ivzJVcqPvAbB3uFZ8oogvNQ6ETG3yE2FiHuy8tGW3VXA7ceXUWM5C9DiSZGA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 100 Self-Voting Activity from 2/25-3/4]]></title><description><![CDATA[This report is a summary of all self-voting activity of the Top 100 SP Holders on Steemit. Under each author is included the posts that they self-voted over the course of time covered in this report. Feel]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-25-3-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-25-3-4</guid><category><![CDATA[selfvotes]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jaredcwillis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:35:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8DAuGnTQCLpunQuGfHnXTmxWbRQScCVGspXNWFwLju5aYVfjdxmwvtsY3461akteaesnAPoCU68WnsXyi3ocDcYrUSienF122zDeshap4GbApfNezXwMkUSSrBrWHz3SGxQC3847kjD8fxU3YEtL5W4S1bFDc6SMEGvVM1dtkrA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 100 Self-Voting Activity from 2/18-2/25 Part 2: Ranks 27-100]]></title><description><![CDATA[This report is a summary of all self-voting activity of the Top 100 SP Holders on Steemit. Under each author is included the posts that they self-voted over the course of time covered in this report. Feel]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-18-2-25-part-2-ranks-27-100</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-18-2-25-part-2-ranks-27-100</guid><category><![CDATA[selfvotes]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jaredcwillis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:13:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/JvFFVmatwWHVQPjDcGkFxELgGtwNAntRtiqDuEyxt3STbUz4WLyCYbQQai4VWwkmmgFrmuqvSVSHhDGL7ZnpFQgnrrq3eFdogu9ncLetWxLJqPJPZvdPhDCG6HUtFj4yXtrhZfvmmQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 100 Self-Voting Activity from 2/18-2/25 Part 1: Ranks 1-26]]></title><description><![CDATA[This report is a summary of all self-voting activity of the Top 100 SP Holders on Steemit. Under each author is included the posts that they self-voted over the course of time covered in this report. Feel]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-18-2-25-part-1-ranks-1-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-18-2-25-part-1-ranks-1-26</guid><category><![CDATA[selfvotes]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jaredcwillis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:07:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/JvFFVmatwWHVQPjDcGkFxELgGtwNAntRtiqDuEyxt3STbUz4WLyCYbQQai4VWwkmmgFrmuqvSVSHhDGL7ZnpFQgnrrq3eFdogu9ncLetWxLJqPJPZvdPhDCG6HUtFj4yXtrhZfvmmQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 100 Self-Voting Activity from 2/11-2/18 - Part 2: Ranks 51-100]]></title><description><![CDATA[Top 100 Self-Voting Activity from 2/11-2/18 This report is a summary of all self-voting activity of the Top 100 SP Holders on Steemit. Under each author is included the posts that they self-voted over]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-11-2-18-part-2-ranks-51-100</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-11-2-18-part-2-ranks-51-100</guid><category><![CDATA[selfvotes]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jaredcwillis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:29:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 100 Self-Voting Activity from 2/11-2/18 - Part 1: Ranks 1-50]]></title><description><![CDATA[Top 100 Self-Voting Activity from 2/11-2/18 This report is a summary of all self-voting activity of the Top 100 SP Holders on Steemit. Under each author is included the posts that they self-voted over]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-11-2-18-part-1-ranks-1-50</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/selfvotes/@jaredcwillis/top-100-self-voting-activity-from-2-11-2-18-part-1-ranks-1-50</guid><category><![CDATA[selfvotes]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jaredcwillis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:18:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voteselling: A curse.. Can it be STOPPED!]]></title><description><![CDATA[A market exists when there is the need for a commodity and two parties both willing to trade the good for a price. It has been identified several times how vote-selling bots are draining the reward pool]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@skreza/voteselling-a-curse-can-it-be-stopped</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@skreza/voteselling-a-curse-can-it-be-stopped</guid><category><![CDATA[voteselling]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[skreza]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 19:43:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7258xSVeJbKnFEnBwjKLhL15SoynbgJKpQxRd1uowUbopx7ZZjPJcZGH5fYZpoTJ4LQkuF9RAmDeKkWn9DX5xLr3BNBqKNF8ejwGD2Lw137B6LWcu8v2YC1AmJDJhFjXszxqkW9vncag6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[#project-smackdown - weeks 5 and 6, first weeks on phase 2 - part 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[#project-smackdown - the project reporting weekly on the top self comment voters and flagging the top 20 self voted comments every day. This is the second and final part of the summary of the first two]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/project-smackdown/@personz/project-smackdown-weeks-5-and-6-first-weeks-on-phase-2-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/project-smackdown/@personz/project-smackdown-weeks-5-and-6-first-weeks-on-phase-2-part-2</guid><category><![CDATA[project-smackdown]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[personz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2017 21:58:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2N61tyyncFaFnNFKLegVvzmsrMAExSDXzsHdqwaiSHaAmzaWyBLuQhAhzoe45HBGRbRZAj85Wq2irAMTytQVmLefsSRCvDXLNBWE8ahudPNjxQR5dJHyhjMfngj9MkPnnCmJ1EcaXAQE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[from steemboad NO ONE WILL WANT TO JOIN STEEMIT AS BY THIS TIME IT WILL BE VERY WELL KNOWN AS A SCAM, AN UPVOTE RING.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Top 10 accounts with the highest percentage of self-votes of SBD: Users can still upvote their own comments, but no monetary rewards will be gained from doing so. It will still help comments gain visibility,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@steemboad/from-steemboad-no-one-will-want-to-join-steemit-as-by-this-time-it-will-be-very-well-known-as-a-scam-an-upvote-ring</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@steemboad/from-steemboad-no-one-will-want-to-join-steemit-as-by-this-time-it-will-be-very-well-known-as-a-scam-an-upvote-ring</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[steemboad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:41:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXa3ZFGC3z1hHKhJ718AqNZkoxmrvXnhdCoMBnZtXVsymsnQUhZcPLCNZ1nJ42YdwpTiphbq6YGW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>