What?
Alright, I am an asshole! I get it. You guys said it many times. Yeah? So let me write about it and show that how it is done. Shall we? Here am I trying to explain things to you where I know that the explanation is futile. Oh, Yes! Also this is the first time I am posting at this community, I do believe this is long overdue!
Auto-vote
Majority of hive voting is by auto-vote. For those who do not know what that is, there are services like hive.vote which is a public and free service, where one can automate their voting by using only posting key. Their is nothing generally wrong with this activity. There are curation program which you can follow, which sometimes are manual votes. If you follow them, you can 'feel' that you are voting manually. Also if you have a small group of people who if follow, like and vote anyways, you can set up a pre-determined percentage and vote their post in automation,
The problem arises, when two things happens:
You stopped caring who you vote. Maybe you lost interest, Maybe you set up some vote in the past and forgot to change it. Maybe you left hive but your vote is still active and maybe you still have some HP that you forgot to powerdown and move out. Maybe you lost your keys. Maybe you are dead. I have seen them all in my 6 + years here. Also I might have missed a few more.
On the receiving end, people who were once active and posting original good quality contents and earned followers. Lot of these followers perhaps put them on auto-vote. Now time have passed. These people lost interests. Got jaded. Why not? A platform with a lot of promise have a token now that is nothing but a distant laggard. Userbase is stagnant to dwindling over the years and in terms of 'content' hive doesn't have anything much to offer, other than people's personal ramblings, like this post!
So now people just post to farm those auto-votes. Regardless of the content quality, those votes will come, and you can make a few hives to few tens of hive, with very little effort. Then you just cash out, but other things, do whatever with that money.
There are many example of these people. Community ousted a few of that back in the days from the platform:
Remember Slowalker? Back in the Steem days: @slowwalker/posts
Sweetsssj? @sweetsssj/posts ..... oh such memories!
Dobartim towards the end of steem? "see you at the top" @dobartim/posts
jrcornel? "Stay informed my friends." @jrcornel/posts
Very recently, joythewanderer @joythewanderer/posts
And who can forget haejin @haejin
The list is very long. The sweet couple I am going to discuss next is honestly nothing compared to these celebrities!
Welcome 
What you are seeing above is how much author reward these two have earned. 48K HP for
Stake Shaming
I do not know if it is really a word. I haven't checked Oxford dictionary. I learned the word from
So yes, Alex and Uwe, There will be stake shaming in my blog. There is no moderator here. Everything will be factual supported by data and there is no room for interpretation.
First the facts though, for that earned 48K and 41K hive over the years respectively Uwe has nothing to show on this account, and Alex shows about 27K. Alex and Uwe will say that they have some alts, all public info, so no problem to find, I have add them up, nah, there is nothing much to talk about. Which if you ask me is not bad at all. Also this couple will say that they have used all that money to buy Splinterlands cards and now they farm splinterlands. To that as a hive user, I must say; why do I care? It is your money, decide how you spend it!
I have seen worse, much worse:
Remember me-tarzan? I do... @me-tarzan
Yep, you read that right, 112K hive, just doing spam. Please don't get any investment ideas from this guys. So in a way, I am saying Alex and Uwe and probably below average run-of-the-mill farmers, which is large majority of hive. So there is nothing to see here we move on.
Circle Voting (Notice; I use a more polite word)
This is what
Engagement seriously? You talk about engagment? Maybe count the guys that dive into your ass (brown nosing) for votes as they think you are important and could benefit from your mini whale vote? That is not engagement.
The only real engagement is when you talk about issues - people that say "great post etc" is no engagemment.
(sorry to tag you, feel free to flag lol) Your engagement outside the circle-jerking with your best friends is only "I nuke your posts" and other bullshit - did you ever create something useful to support this community on Hive (not speaking SPL as there it is obvious you have no clue about business)?
For those who do not know what Circle Jerk is; below is the definition:
Circle jerk (plural circle jerks) (vulgar, slang) A group of males masturbating ("jerking off") together (with or without interpersonal contact). quotations ▼ (vulgar, derogatory, slang) Any group or group activity indulging in excessive mutual praise.
But hey, I am no naive. That is not what Uwe means. At hive, it roughly translates to I vote you, you vote me; regardless of content. Usually it works best if the two accounts have similar HP or voting power. Otherwise it is lopsided, and not equal pleasure! I used to get DMs, why don't you vote me and I vote you, let us grow together!....No No, not penis.....HP!
Here: This is Alex's outgoing votes
And Here: Uwe's outgoing votes
No, shit!! LOL
They do like to circle jerk ....EWWW!
Oh, here is my incoming vote!
Sorry guys, haven't posted in 14 days....so no incoming votes
But I did UPVOTE 586 unique accounts in last 7 days. I don't think any of them voted me back.
Sorry what am I missing here?
Oh Engagement
I mean comments and stuff at your post. You know... conversation
Back in the day Uwe's posts, before I started downvoting. Nothing to see here. Mostly YouTube links of music video. Nothing harmful, but nothing engaging either.
I thought about writing a lot more, but maybe I should split it up into multiple posts to farm more hive rewards? What do you say to that?
Sorry 
By the way these two circle voters have offered me love multiple times. To that I must say, I am straight, you can offer love to each other. Is this polite? I hope so.
