<?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, 20 May 2026 09:34:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/voteselling/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Daily Meme #553!]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you are selling your vote through a delegation service, you are losing money. You will make more money by voting your hive power than by delegating it. How do you think the middlemen make their money?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-553</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-553</guid><category><![CDATA[voteselling]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:15:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rgk6e5k8aYSBYj5GXTpywffymQvre5HEuEhrtFnSA1Ac4spmnWqiEjvrZAfb5SiBzZ2uwrkPFhY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Daily Meme #532!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Still not seeing the disconnect here. We, 'the community' routinely crush little people trying to finance their schemes with the rewards pool, but we let the largest and probably oldest keep trucking along]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-532</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-532</guid><category><![CDATA[voteselling]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 16:23:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rhD2HJAC9RR1BTueriLmL9WC6abMH7n3p1gQkc8Kj1Jg92TUgqXYhHzxJQmo8wi5pEuJYATh5YJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Daily Meme #525!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The people most wanting to profit from hive are buying it. They buy votes, too. Why wouldn't they? It leverages more hive to them for less work. The rub is that in order to 'profit' from buying and leveraging]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/rewardpoolreap/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-525</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/rewardpoolreap/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-525</guid><category><![CDATA[rewardpoolreap]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2022 20:07:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rgUpnq1X9rUY6ATzjRUoojR3LK1eeMGv1atczKvX2SYuWC5tcjgA7xBJMJQyXV93MoQDNHTHv7x?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Daily Meme #524!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The reward pool is intended to reward creators. IF people would leave well enough alone that would be great. But, there are ways to game this design. One of them is to sell your vote power and not have]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/budnippin/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-524</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/budnippin/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-524</guid><category><![CDATA[budnippin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rguLpbax1s7n72tZyGokYnrgbZEA7mtbHUzWNdSuSfJSQoKNNk6PBAPveX6JctcAGgGcX3svRwc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Daily Meme #523!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vote selling makes this game less attractive to the masses. It corrupts those selling. It empowers those willing to buy power. At one point the consensus was that we would fork the chain to run off all]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/rewardpoolreap/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-523</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/rewardpoolreap/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-523</guid><category><![CDATA[rewardpoolreap]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:28:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2ri1hAnf9QAUJJLmKkGg7UnKicoZhoGm7N77XGzMoa3c5N7YhA9pmJGYh2SaWUQ3hWwvJwtFBVmp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Daily Meme #521!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hey, what happened to all the pay to play haters? We ran the one I won't name from the platform for selling his votes. We put a 'legitimate' business owner out of business(he's the one flagging this post).]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-521</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-521</guid><category><![CDATA[voteselling]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:21:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2riB2gjtsEoiDp9heYcd2RykmB8fGYXyfx8PFuJ7x4b8o9mPN4rMKFX381F49EH3ZN82Y2695AKG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[MUTE is my solution]]></title><description><![CDATA[I always felt there is something fishy about long time steem-hive user crypto.piotr, his never ending spamming (with 0.001 Hive TX) to my wallets, and his pompastic, loudly advertised "Project Hope]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-150329/@onealfa.pob/mute-is-my-solution</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-150329/@onealfa.pob/mute-is-my-solution</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-150329]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[onealfa.pob]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2021 14:48:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/8DAuGnTQCLptZgjHUrRAJGcW4y1D4A5QVJJ7zjzqqKdfVHSS6NapSCCAPuJYjLEuom6xm1cLtAPHeWW9nAv6X68p3XeBht4XdAT9qJFmrTxsBXXzWCMc1VWuu1uiy8Vpc725K35J9vz1Dvij1PPVeLCdHtwNRaw2uSC5QECxtJz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selling votes through beneficiaries]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some of you oldschoolers may still remember the EIP and all the changes it brought forth to our platform, of course some stakeholders preferred to just ignore it but after the hivefork it became even less]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-174578/@acidyo/selling-votes-through-beneficiaries</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-174578/@acidyo/selling-votes-through-beneficiaries</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-174578]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acidyo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2021 21:13:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm back, and with a new (old) complaint!]]></title><description><![CDATA[We forked to put an end to vote selling. We did it before hive even existed. We all mostly agreed vote selling is bad. So, what the hell are you doing delegating for profit? If you delegate for a return,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-111111/@antisocialist/i-m-back-and-with-a-new-old-complaint</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-111111/@antisocialist/i-m-back-and-with-a-new-old-complaint</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-111111]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:24:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2YRZBi4FZVHeQQfitmdxPPgLtSu1HuSyXtTCpRF9N1ZcMUXDB7ptaErKXmTDgqy8As3aWX94xdqNDSvxCt7DtEQsWbb4gTTagtN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote Selling Benchmarks pre HF21 EIP]]></title><description><![CDATA[One component of the upcoming hard fork 21 is the Economic Improvement Proposal (EIP), explained in technical detail here on the @steemitblog and here in layman's terms by @justineh. The goal of these]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/analysis/@carlgnash/vote-selling-benchmarks-pre-hf21-eip</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/analysis/@carlgnash/vote-selling-benchmarks-pre-hf21-eip</guid><category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[carlgnash]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2019 07:39:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBM2jscGd4Sszpv94XxHH2uqxMY9z21vaqHt4q8pUjQrSNePN9e2AKJbvSYyscqnCTyfSDw58uJ6dVzJoiqFkVBnXSkibzL3zBoarTawS9cnm3Sou6Nq3U?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smartsteem Introduction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smartsteem is a kind of service that can be used as an agent to give back interest. You can see a lot of praised trading services on this website, of which smartsteem is one of them, and the amount that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tw/@cruew/smartsteem-introduction</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tw/@cruew/smartsteem-introduction</guid><category><![CDATA[tw]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cruew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 13:07:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to be a Dolphin soon thanks to Minnowbooster.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I hope to be a dolphin soon thanks to Minnowbooster. I’m now Making 1 SBD per day while I sleep: I signed up for “Voteselling” as long as my Voting Power is over 98%.... (when I’m sleeping) I set it so]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/minnowboosters/@offgridlife/i-hope-to-be-a-dolphin-soon-thanks-to-minnowbooster-0mca0x9e</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/minnowboosters/@offgridlife/i-hope-to-be-a-dolphin-soon-thanks-to-minnowbooster-0mca0x9e</guid><category><![CDATA[minnowboosters]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[offgridlife]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:34:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjVtYhc8EyUCS1n2TpsbpKuDhBkZTQTi2NsGVP3cuDYfbsXixCRzpck6ZQdLsMX2PJZQEzoY2N4iJjsdQXHp1jg63dkJwGaVqfV1MsHpFjuUi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Signed up for MinnowBooster.net]]></title><description><![CDATA[Going to Give this a Try and see if I do as well with this system ... Anyone do a comparison between Delegation and Selling Votes ?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/minnowbooster/@offgridlife/signed-up-for-minnowbooster-net</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/minnowbooster/@offgridlife/signed-up-for-minnowbooster-net</guid><category><![CDATA[minnowbooster]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[offgridlife]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:53:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/BgxWBRxjvNhnbM9DiyHtCptYaDNF3xx85r8if8spuMjfmbQUqPPHFHPdRmku7zLCi4g8qVaFJyzpFFfhE5ergRjnJj1RSvdQUQwncQjdCLYvVsqMmuuism1XRpzZ8KjGnHrgdA5kaoSpjizDC1PTmFmQzEY1KAK24R1XC6itKzCdMp2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smartsteem vote selling market!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smartsteem has a tool for selling your votes. Just authorize your account with smartsteem using steemconnect and set your power limit that you want to stop voting after reach that percentage . You can]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/smartsteem/@aknirob/smartsteem-vote-selling-market</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/smartsteem/@aknirob/smartsteem-vote-selling-market</guid><category><![CDATA[smartsteem]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[aknirob]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2019 06:20:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/JvFFVmatwWHRfvmtd53nmEJ94xpKydwmbSC5H5svBACH7z2qsqbdmgF66Wv5yaa74wmo5SM46Fu6U7F8CRjM42UNMWBdrK9NriecVHzoCVmX3p1FJJFYo4kW6p2pVma62MCTSyg39Q?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How The Ancient Vote Selling Worked]]></title><description><![CDATA[I found an interesting article I’d like to share with Steemians with a reason. Vote selling was a well known practice already in the ancient Rome: Since most voters saw elections as irrelevant to their]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steem/@deathcross/how-the-ancient-vote-selling-worked</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steem/@deathcross/how-the-ancient-vote-selling-worked</guid><category><![CDATA[steem]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[deathcross]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:32:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/LcTxR7u1XKaa3e4T1EBuBP18JezPvjFFo8gNuE9CiKHBn3J1StT1RmHW1UpMochyrGcX3J2nhmvP2aazoYyffTjURbzsRBo4gZryVMC4YyeD7HTWAi2F8oj21UVaCZpugoczN5JpMQxx1GBFueDZkNfCS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying out vote-bying]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I heard of vote buying the first time I dismissed it as scammy behaviour, self-voting was another thing that was mentioned in the same breath and I had another meaning of that as I have generally]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@katharsisdrill/trying-out-vote-bying</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@katharsisdrill/trying-out-vote-bying</guid><category><![CDATA[voteselling]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[katharsisdrill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:21:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJQfQgENfxADE6EVYabczqmSF5KeWefV5WL9WH36FEVvp2WGjfGLYumeRM7TPaVTzA9M5kF1JqwBorTJJBPFbfky6S1hRbvk1ojL91xtt2LAYwnHwe7wdJ14?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make some extra passive STEEM !]]></title><description><![CDATA[Invite your friends and other users to Smartsteem and receive 0.5% profit of every sold vote by them. Have you tried vote selling yet? Click the banner below and join up on Smartsteem. Let me know]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dlike/@epic-fail/make-some-extra-passive-steem-</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dlike/@epic-fail/make-some-extra-passive-steem-</guid><category><![CDATA[dlike]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[epic-fail]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 22:20:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/ATHztMY7eTanZ5H9dWwTFgLxDQcC7u9XeHoeER2F5pMnNSkLspxJUVMWaxiMyZvr7M3Q7SNi9KJUyP3tLxnuKFbCYwfQZqae4bycXhL9hEttNQrdtiws8vSvhBzVerAyJD4ZTcKSuyhehz2yKEjBXD77Dt9Fq5tK9E7Tk2KCfQgQtKUoRnPKizqGsyz6KAbsHegSiHEDcrQWg8449efkDLEz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of smartsteem]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was looking at several upvote bots for the last few days and i found smartsteem. At first i was like what is this and then i was like this is amazing. I went on to there website and looked around for]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@teenagecrypto/the-power-of-smartsteem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@teenagecrypto/the-power-of-smartsteem</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[teenagecrypto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:58:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4i88GgaV8qiFU89taP2MgKXzwntUGAvkoQiKU7VxyD37q9aar7LqzvnSpDtSUMyzm8bj9xD37tRZddcJvbwPwXERfEEjtxHCF2JJhUb2kUN1N8c6H2QQkhMzsp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[VOTE SELLING]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do you want to sell your votes? Try it here: You are giving SBD for selling your votes. SBD paid is depending on the amount of your voting power.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@edryne678/vote-selling</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/voteselling/@edryne678/vote-selling</guid><category><![CDATA[voteselling]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[edryne678]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2018 09:12:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/W5LtFUPm6g7111bbdcuxu3bfUg5qaCq8seb5paCtrrT7zPTvh1GwSK5e2169ZvPSBD5WvDfvS6NNsbeytPqgFtSQergURa9Ub1qmFJFfhTgf8YXeFFTdCb4FC3tf4KJ5wZAeW4TVZuvhRU92oXYH54vVjnsZx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you a minnow selling your vote?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I get why you would want the no effort rewards. No, really. We all want something for nothing. Con Mises spawned a whole branch of economics with that goal in mind. Many, many (oxy)morons, inspired by]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/abuse/@freebornangel/are-you-a-minnow-selling-your-vote</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/abuse/@freebornangel/are-you-a-minnow-selling-your-vote</guid><category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[freebornangel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2018 16:26:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/B69zEhWZA8UBvwpPuizsrYUTc5ojP7QkMFn5g3XLtenLte7cSSDxu9xqMUA4Fka8FGr9cmjDENB8VSKZY8MRSZqDQJoxaDrCH4qtQRsk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>